Judging by name alone, iFriends.com seems innocent enough. But, in fact, it is self-described as “the largest premium and free adult webcam sex chat community in the world.” IFriends, which has ...

The Dot Com days were a time when Google wasn’t yet on anyone’s radar and most people performed searches using AOL and Compuserve. The sound of the dial-up 56k modem was exciting, not agonizing and ...

ICANN has approved XXX as a top-level domain. The adult entertainment industry will soon have its own glaringly obvious domain, but unfortunately that doesn’t necessarily mean that dot-COM domains ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The first ...

The dot-com problems and their impact on the Web Some Americans’ Internet experiences are beginning to be affected by the dot-com meltdown, but the vast majority of them are making quick adjustments ...

Anyone who uses the internet to read stories and watch videos more than they should knows about ad blockers. But they might not know this crazy trick: If you add an extra “dot” immediately after the “ ...

The dot-com era is nearing its end. Soon to emerge: the world of dot-brand. The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is overhauling domain rules later this year, ditching the ".com," ...

FreeSpeechMe is a free and open-source browser plug-in that lets Firefox users do what was previously rather difficult to achieve: surf dot-bit (.bit) domains. FreeSpeechMe is a free and open-source ...

I’d like to say we did it on purpose. But the Daily Dot actually launched Aug. 23 because that’s when the site was done. Come to think of it, that’s probably exactly why the World Wide Web (which had ...