The agency that runs the Internet’s technical infrastructure—ICANN—is mulling a plan pushed by the entertainment industry that could dramatically limit the use of proxy registration services that mask ...

Domain name registrars and registries might soon be changing their mantra from, “I think ICANN,” to, “Maybe ICANN’T,” when it comes to providing publicly available WHOIS information for domain name ...

Buying a domain name is often an exciting experience, whether it’s your very first domain or the 100th! But before you get to that, there are two less fun tasks to go through: the first is to find the ...

An ICANN report into Whois data on domain names has revealed that 24,148 complaints about lack of Whois information were received in the 18 months leading up to February 29 this year. The complaints ...

Google's John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site's rankings in Google Search. He ...

Sometimes it is hard to figure out who your online competitors are, or worse, what they are doing to beat you. Sometimes it feels like you are beating your head against a wall because no matter how ...