How will you know whether a site is funny in the future? It may be that it will carry an ".LOL" on the end of the address instead of ".com," so you know for sure that it is supposed to cause laughter.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Internet addresses are about to expand way past .com and .org, and Google wants in. It applied to grab not only .google, but also fun suffixes like .lol. The company said it ...

ICANN, the organization that assigns names for websites, will unveil hundreds of new top level domains on June 13 that join familiar suffixes like “.com” or “.org” It appears that some of the names ...

It's too late to apply for new TLDs, but Google applied ahead of the deadline to lock down domains for its core products... and to provide some opportunities for hilarity. Eric Mack has been a CNET ...

The search giant also said it applied to run “.lol”, a top-level domain that would refer to the common online abbreviation for “laugh out loud”. Google said it thought ".lol" had "interesting and ...

This is not a joke: Google intends to purchase the .Lol Web domain, Vint Cerf, an executive evangelist for Google, wrote on the company’s blog. Perhaps Google wants to open a corner of the Web ...

It's not often that we can use LOL in a story without throwing integrity out of the window, but leave it to Google to enable such a luxury. The search giant has just announced that it will be ...

We’re already seeing some diversity in domain names: There’s .me, .is and the controversial .xxx. But is it only a matter of time until all the nouns and verbs and letter combinations are snatched up?

The search company has applied for a string of top level domain names (TLDs), which allow website owners to pay to replace the traditional “.com” or “.co.uk” with their own brand names or other words.

Internet addresses are all set to go past the traditional .com, .co and .org. And the Internet giant, Google, has already applied for a slew of domain names that are not only business or location ...

Google has applied for more than 50 top-level domains that include obvious choices like .google and .youtube while also including other, more interesting choices such as a .lol domain. Google applied ...