A for-profit group might not end up controlling the .org domain after all. The ICANN Board has rejected Internet Society's proposal to sell control of the .org domain and the Public Interest Registry, ...

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

ICANN, a nonprofit organization that governs internet domain names, has announced it’s voting against the Public Interest Registry’s controversial handover of the “.org” top-level domain to private ...

Internet activists hit the streets to protest the .org registry takeover by private equity outside of ICANN's LA offices. Credit: Andrew Cowie/AFP/GettyImages A group of protesters took their ...

The nonprofit .org domain registry was acquired for $1.135 billion by a private equity firm after a series of odd events. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The private equity takeover of one of the ...