Today marks a milestone in the history of the internet as ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has rolled out a system that allows full domain names with no Latin characters in them. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first three countries to benefit from this advancement, while [...]

With the announcement that vodka.com is being sold for £1.5m it’s clear that emphasis on the right web name is still hugely important. However, with RSS becoming more mainstream, how much does the name of the site really matter? I think this view may change depending on whether you’re a marketeer, a salesman, a content [...]

What with sex.com, damien-hirst.co.uk, bradpitt.com and many others all experiencing ownership disputes at one time or another, it would be easy to think that there’s plenty of import in a name. In Sex.com, the book by Kieran McCarthy (to be published on Nov 2 this year) Kieran calls Network Solutions, the company in charge of [...]