SAN FRANCISCO — The United States doesn’t own the Internet, but it’s held the oversight contract for the organization that runs its address book for many years. That’s set to change Friday. The U.S.

Email addresses are obtained from an Internet service provider (ISP). You can generally choose any name for the first part of the address as long as it is not already taken. The second part is the ISP ...

Critics fear the transfer could lead to censorship. — -- Oversight of the internet’s naming directory -- essentially the web’s address book -- will be transferred today from the U.S. government ...

Remember when telephone companies ran out of phone numbers and forced us all to dial 10 digits to make a call? The Internet is now in a similar bind, the Wall Street Journal reports. This week, the ...

Ne’er-do-wells have long abused a feature in Skype to glean the Internet address of other users. Indeed, many shady online services that can be hired to launch attacks aimed at knocking users offline ...