Tag Archives: ccTLD

Wed 18th December 2013
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The Pirate Bay moves to thepiratebay.gy after Peru suspends thepiratebay.pe - The Pirate Bay moves to thepiratebay.gy after Peru suspends thepiratebay.pe The Pirate Bay moves to thepiratebay.gy after Peru suspends thepiratebay.pe The Pirate Bay has rented a new home, thepiratebay.gy, for the fourth time in a week after Peru decided to suspend thepiratebay.pe. The Pirate Bay has moved on to Guyana-based .GY ccTLD and the team behind the torrent indexing site ... Read More The Pirate Bay has rented a new home, thepiratebay.gy, for the fourth time in ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay déménage en Guyana et prépare un hébergement … - Le vaisseau pirate le plus redoutable d'Internet continue à voguer de territoire en territoire. Moins d'une semaine après avoir changé deux fois de nom de domaine, The Pirate Bay a aujourd'hui jeté l'ancre en Guyana. Quelques jours seulement après que The Pirate Bay a adopté l'adresse thepiratebay.pe, le domaine national du Pérou a suspendu à son tour le nom de domaine, sans préavis selon un représentant du site qui a contacté TorrentFreak, et sans explication. Le site d'échange ... read more ...
 
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WEB: MARKMONITOR, 2013: UN ANNO DAL PUNTO DI VISTA DEI DOMINI … – AgenParl - (AGENPARL) - Roma, 17 dic - Ci avviciniamo all’anno nuovo ed è arrivato il momento di tirare le somme e vedere cosa è successo nel 2013 nel mondo dei domini web. Di seguito una rassegna degli avvenimenti più importanti che abbiamo stilato in MarkMonitor. # 10 - Registro di Sicurezza esposto a vulnerabilità Con 23 violazioni della sicurezza del Registro di sistema in questo ultimo anno, il numero di incidenti riportati ha raggiunto un massimo storico. Registri dei ccTLD popolari come .CN ... read more ...
Mon 16th December 2013
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With 20 Million Domain Registration, The Registry Behind .TK Raises $3 Million In Funding -   Freenom who is the registry for the .TK which is the ccTLD of Tokelau, which offers free domain names has closed a $3 million Series A funding round led by Kima Ventures. Freenom is headquartered in Amsterdam runs the .TK registry which is the second most registered domain name extension in the world with over 20,000,000 domain name registrations. Only .com has more domain name registrations that .TK The company also has signed deals with the countries of  Gabon (GA) , Central African Republic ... read more ...
Fri 13th December 2013
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The Pirate Bay Switches to .AC ccTLD Following Domain Seizure, Pressure from … - by Nicole Henderson on December 13, 2013Add Your Comments The Pirate Bay switched its domain this week, relocating to a new address on the .AC ccTLD, after pressure from Dutch anti-piracy agency Brein forced the domain registry of Sint Maarten to seize its .SX domain name. Initially reported on Torrent Freak on Tuesday, The Pirate Bay users were unable to use the site in places where DNS entries were not cached, ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy.com Warns Customers That .Vg & .Tc Domains May Not Be Renewed & Will Be Costly - In any email Godaddy.com warns customers that they might not be able to renew .VG domain names or .TC domain names. If they are able to renew them they are not going to be cheap “We previously told you about a dispute at the .TC and .VG domain name registries.” “We have already suspended new .TC and .VG registrations because of complications at the registry, and we may have issues renewing your domain(s). ” “Also, effective immediately, the registries have increased the price of renewals: ... read more ...
Wed 11th December 2013
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The Pirate Bay Dodges Authorities and Resurfaces with .AC Following Domain … - <!--Like us on Facebook --> "We expressly point out that by registering domain names and using these and/or allowing these to be used by The Pirate Bay, you infringe on the rights of Rights Owners. Therefore, the Rights Owners hold you liable for the damages that they have suffered and will suffer from your actions," read the letter to TPB. In 2013, this is the fourth time that The Pirate Bay had to switch the domain to avoid being shut down for good. The ... read more ...
 
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Pirate Bay relocates to thepiratebay.ac - The Pirate Bay's .sx was seized this morning, and the site has relocated to thepiratebay.ac. The .AC top-level domain is controlled by Ascension Islands, a UK territory, and a Pirate Bay spokesperson announced that the change was only temporary, with another new domain (.pe, in Peru) in the wings. This is the fifth time that The Pirate Bay had its domain seized in 2013. The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, continues to be accessible through the new .AC domain, although only briefly since ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Everywhere the Pirate Bay Set Up Shop in 2013 - View The Year in Pirate Bay Domains in a larger map Pirate Bay is back on the URL lam. After its Sint Maarten .SX domain was shut down last night, it’s now available at thepiratebay.AC, a ccTLD for Ascension Island, which is a British overseas territory that’s a volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic. It’s been that kind of year for the torrent site, which now adds its Sint Maarten address to a list of national domains that have been blocked, along with domains ... read more ...
 
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The Pirate Bay : nouveau nom de domaine péruvien, le 6e en 2013 - C'est reparti pour un tour pour le jeu du chat et de la souris entre The Pirate Bay et l'industrie du divertissement. Le dernier nom de domaine sur lequel le site d'échange de torrents opérait a été saisi aujourd'hui, mais ce dernier en a aussitôt adopté un autre. La bataille entre The Pirate Bay et les ayants-droits ou leurs représentants se joue au tour par tour cette année. Faute de parvenir à remonter à la source, le site s'étant blindé accusation après accusation, les industriels ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames.com Add .Co.Uk and .Cn Dropping Domains To Their System - SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S. announced today that the ccTLD domain names for the United Kingdom, .CO.UK and for China, .CN are now available for backorder services. “As the world’s third and fourth most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) extensions, demand for .CO.UK and .CN is aptly reflected in top worldwide internet usage penetration rates and volumes.” “According to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, 80% (more than double the global rate) ... read more ...
Wed 4th December 2013
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Google: ccTLD & Wildcard Subdomain Strategies Won’t Give You An "Unnatural … - Google's John Mueller responded to a detailed technical question regarding ccTLDs, wildcard subdomains and the likelihood of it being seen as doorway pages in a Stack Exchange thread. In short, the webmaster wants to create websites that would target city names around the world, whereby TLD for each countries will be used. Here is the mapping they were considering:www.website.de for let's say Germany and www.website.cn for China and the sub-domains will be www.berlin.website.de and www.beijing.website.cn, ... read more ...
Wed 27th November 2013
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Indonesia: Get ready for anything.id - The Indonesia Internet Domain Name Administrator (PANDI) says that they are drafting the newest regulation regarding the use of the ccTLD .id (known as "anything.id") which will be finished and released at the beginning of 2014. This regulation will enable every person to buy and use an internet domain bearing his own name or company or even trade mark or anything else with the suffix .id beside the popular worldwide gTLD .com. At this ... read more ...
Tue 26th November 2013
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.DE Registry to add Redemption Grace Period (DENIC) - 11|26|2013 02:49 pm EDT .DE Registry to add Redemption Grace Period (DENIC) by Frank Michlick in Categories: ccTLDs, Up to the Minute As of December 3rd, 2013, DENIC, the operator of the .DE ccTLD will also introduce a Redemption Grace Period (RGP) that allows the original domain owner to recover ... read more ...
Wed 20th November 2013
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Nominet To Finally Introduce Shorter ‘.uk’ Domain In 2014 - Nominet, the non-profit registry responsible for managing the UK domain name space, has announced plans to introduce a shorter ‘.uk’ country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) next summer. The new ccTLD will allow businesses and individuals to register shorter website addresses, which will cost as much as the current ‘.co.uk’ names - £3.50 for a single year and £2.50 when registered for several years. The change to the British domains is coming as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ... read more ...
 
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Nominate Approves .Uk Domain Names; .co.uk Holders to Get 1st Shot - Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD on behalf of the United Kindom announced today that it was going ahead with its controversial plan to domain go launch the shorter .uk domain name not only to compete with all the thousands of new gTLD’s most notably .London,  but to bring the UK into line with other European countries such as France (.fr), Germany (.de) and Ireland (.ie) Nominet  existing .uk customers will be offered first refusal of the shorter equivalent of their current address, ... read more ...
Mon 18th November 2013
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Unique .US Marketing Effort from Neustar - Neustar operates the .US ccTLD domain registry. I don’t see .US domain names used very often, and I don’t believe the .US ccTLD is used nearly as regularly as ccTLD domain names in other countries, especially those in Europe. I don’t recall ever seeing mainstream marketing for .US domain names until this weekend. A major running event was held in Alexandria, Virginia over the weekend. The .US National Road Racing Championships featured exceptional runners from around the country, and ... read more ...
Fri 15th November 2013
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What Happened To Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Name Industry Report? -   Verisign which had been releasing a quarterly report on the domain name industry seems to be  Missing in Action. The last Domain Name Industry Report was  published for the quarter ending December 31, 2012. Verisign had been issuing quarterly reports containing the number of total domain names registrations with a break down ccTLD’s has been a no show in 2013. Verisign’s last quarterly report it issued was for December 2012 showed 252 million domain names registered  worldwide. As ... read more ...
Wed 6th November 2013
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Implementing the Extended Process Similarity Review Panel in the IDN ccTLD … – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is publishing a revised version of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Final Implementation Plan that includes the changes required for the implementation of the two-panel string similarity review process as approved by the ICANN Board on June 27, 2013. In addition, ICANN is publishing the Guidelines for the Extended Process Similarity Review Panel (EPSRP). The EPSRP is the second panel of the two-panel process for string similarity ... read more ...
Mon 4th November 2013
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With New gTLD’s Coming To Market .TO Rebrands Itself To Represent Toronto -           .To has become the second country code (ccTLD) to rebrand itself to represent a city. Following on the succesful rebranding of .La which is the ccTLD for Laos for Los Angeles , .TO which is the ccTLD for Tonga send out a press release today announcing the re-launch .TO for Toronto “Comparatively  speaking, .TO is wide open”, observed Eric Lyons, of Tonic – the .TO registry operator. “There are thousands of generic keywords and highly brandable names available for registration ... read more ...
Sun 27th October 2013
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Over 35 Two Letter .Co.Uk Hit The Auction Block at NameJet - Although its not a market I invest in, I found it interesting that over 35 two letter .co.uk domain names have hit the auction blog over at Namejet.com .co.uk domain names has been in the news as Nominet UK,  the company that operates the ccTLD has been consider plans to offer .Uk domain names thereby great diminishing the value of .co.uk domains. The domain names do have an undisclosed reserve price. The two letter .co.uk back order deadline starts on November 21st and goes over several days ... read more ...
 
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Over 35 Two Letter .Co.Uk Hit The Auction Block during NameJet - Although its not a market I invest in, I found it interesting that over 35 two letter .co.uk domain names have hit the auction blog over at Namejet.com .co.uk domain names has been in the news as Nominet UK,  the company that operates the ccTLD has been consider plans to offer .Uk domain names thereby great diminishing the value of .co.uk domains. The domain names do have an undisclosed reserve price. The two letter .co.uk back order deadline starts on November 21st and goes over several days in ... read more ...
Wed 16th October 2013
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The Overlooked Signals of ccTLDs - Two ccTLD signals should get more attention when we're talking about the domains' benefits. Companies in emerging markets can signal their brands to expats and/or westerners. This ability to take the companies' appeal beyond their immediate, national markets deserves a look and some appreciation. Traditionally, Western companies have been the ones who registered ccTLDs to signal operations in overseas markets, while companies in emerging markets use them to signal their local brands to the ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Facing Competition From .Kiwi, New Zeland ccTLD To Allow .NZ Registrations -   “DOT KIWI welcomes .nz to the new era of the internet! We congratulate the Council of InternetNZ for deciding to approve a proposal to allow Kiwis to register their domain names directly to .nz. Like .kiwi, we believe this is a far simpler and more compelling proposition than previous iterations like .co.nz.   When .nz becomes available Kiwis will really be making a choice between two domain names – .kiwi or .nz. I know which one I prefer!   The main issue that InternetNZ will face when ... read more ...
 
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Facing Competition From .Kiwi, New Zeland ccTLD To Allow .NZ Registrations - The Council of InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) which operates the ccTLD for New Zealand approved today to allow domain names to be registered at the second level in the .nz domain name space. By allowing registrations at the second level, people and organisations will be able to register theirname.nz instead of theirname.co.nz or theirname.net.nz (the current system, which allows registrations at the third level only). InternetNZ President Dr Frank March says this move fits with InternetNZ’s ... read more ...