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ICANN, the organization in charge of basic internet name and addressing technology, announced Thursday it won’t approve of the sale and transfer to a private investment firm of the business that sells the rights to use the .org internet domain. The Internet Society, a 27-year-old nonprofit that pushes for online improvements such as better privacy …

Google is helping usher in a new way for companies to tout their brand names in the digital realm. On September 29, the search giant began publishing a new website that uses the .google, rather than the standard .com, as its domain name. The new site, blog.google, consolidates 19 previously separate Google blogs. Google’s website is at the fore of …