Tag Archives: ccTLD

Mon 6th May 2013
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Rwanda targets 5000 new .rw names by 2016 - Monday 6 May 2013 | 15:52 CET | News The Rwanda Information Communication Technology Association (RICTA) targets registering about 5,000 web domain names by 2016, following the re-delegation of the ccTLD .rw from Belgium a couple months ago, the New Times reported. The RICTA late last year gained all the rights from Icann to manage the country domain, ... read more ...
 
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KSregistry becomes Registry Provider for . GD - May 6th, 2013 By: THN News <!-- GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-1-Rotating");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-2");--> <!--GA_googleFillSlot("THN-140x60-3");--> (The Hosting News) – The National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (NTRC), an agent of the state Grenada, has delegated the operation of .GD, the ccTLD of Grenada, to the former technical backend provider, KSregistry GmbH. Due to the difficulties with the former .GD ... read more ...
Fri 3rd May 2013
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SEO : des domaines nationaux de premier niveau considérés … - Même si un domaine est de premier niveau national, Google pourra laisser les webmasters choisir la zone géographique ciblée par son moteur de recherche. Google a étendu la liste des domaines de premier niveau nationaux (aussi connus sous l'acronyme ccTLD - pour country-code Top-Level Domain) que son moteur peut considérer comme des domaines de premier ... read more ...
Thu 2nd May 2013
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The 20 ccTLD’s That Google Treats As Generic TLD’s - According to the Seroundtable.com, Google has been updating their indexing systems to treat more ccTLDs, country-level top level domains, as generic TLDs. As we already know some of the favorite ccTLD’s of domainers like .Co, .Me and .Tv made the list. If your using a ccTLD domain name and if its on the list Google will rank your site as a generic site, .com, .net and .org included. If you’re using a ccTLD not on the list, then Google is treating the domain in its country code sense and you should ... read more ...
Wed 1st May 2013
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Applicant For .Radio Starting To Sell Subdomains off Radio.Fm & Radio.Am -   According to a press release out today BRS Media, one of the applications for the new gTLD .Radio  “announced the set launch dates for  “The Radio Global Domain Extensions under .Radio.am and .Radio.fm,  will launch the Sunrise Period for trademark owners worldwide on May 28, 2013.” These are subdomains of a ccTLD that are being sold off of Radio.FM Radio.AM  and should not be confused with the new gTLD .radio which BRS Media has also applied for. BRS Media also operates the .Fm ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw … – wallstreet - Salt Lake City, USA - 24. April 2013 - Die Ivy International Holding Corp. gibt zum Vertrieb der Internet Top Level Domain ”.gw” Global Web (Guinea Bissau) folgende Presseerklärung ab: Seit einiger Zeit behaupten die Firmen GWNIC Official Registry SARL – Guinea Bissau NIC Domain Investment PLC – England GW NIC Global Web Service LTD – England die alleinigen Lizenz- und Vertriebsrechte der ccTLD „.gw“ des Landes Guinea-Bissau erhalten zu haben und bieten Investoren Beteiligungen in ihr Unternehmen ... read more ...
 
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IRW-PRESS: IVY International Holding Corp.: Ivy International Holding, Corp … - DJ IRW-PRESS: IVY International Holding Corp.: Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global Web Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global Web Internet Top Level Domain ".gw" Global Web (Guinea Bissau) ohne legale Lizenz Salt Lake City, USA - 24. April 2013 - Die Ivy International Holding Corp. gibt zum Vertrieb der Internet Top Level Domain ".gw" Global Web (Guinea Bissau) folgende Presseerklärung ... read more ...
 
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IRW-News: IVY International Holding Corp. - IRW-PRESS: IVY International Holding Corp.: Ivy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global WebIvy International Holding, Corp.: Presseerklärung zur Top Level Domain .gw Global Web Internet Top Level Domain '.gw' Global Web (Guinea Bissau) ohne legale LizenzSalt Lake City, USA - 24. April 2013 - Die Ivy International Holding Corp. gibt zum Vertrieb der Internet Top Level Domain '.gw' Global Web (Guinea Bissau) folgende ... read more ...
Mon 22nd April 2013
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.An Domains To Be Removed From The Root Server by Oct 2014 - According to BrandShelter.com, the .An registry is being phased out with the the .An ccTLD being removed from the root server by October 2014. I know a lot of unsophisticated domain investors may get caught up buying one of these domain names with great keyword which maybe offered with cheap pricing , so buyer beware. Here is the announcement: “”The University of the Netherlands Antilles (UNA), the administrator of .AN domains, will start the removal of .AN domain names from their databases and ... read more ...
 
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Nigeria Loses N300 Million Annually to Foreign Domain Names – NIRA - Nigeria loses over N300 million annually to foreign countries due to the low adoption of DotNG Internet name, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association(NIRA) has said. The DotNG domain name which is Nigeria's Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is managed by NIRA which is pushing uptake of the online resource. NIRA's Chief Operating Officer, Ope Odugbesan said in Lagos while speaking ahead of a two-day forum on Local Internet Content scheduled for April 25-26 that Nigeria loses an ... read more ...
Wed 10th April 2013
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Doména .CZ patří mezi nejrychleji rostoucí v rámci EU - Root.cz (www.root.cz), informace nejen ze světa Linuxu. ISSN 1212-8309 Copyright © 1998 – 2013 Internet Info, s.r.o. Všechna práva vyhrazena. Powered by Linux. Přepnout na mobilní verzi Kontakt| Reklama| Podmínky užívání| Podpořte Root.cz| RSS exporty ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
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Mali to give .ML domains away for free - While a large part of the domain industry gathers at the 46th ICANN meeting in Beijing this week, big news are being made in the country of Mali in Africa. As reported by The Guardian, .ML domains will be available for free in July 2013. The registry will be operated by Freedom Registry, the same company that currently operated .TK (ccTLD for Tokelau). .TK currently has over 16 million active domain names according to the registry operator. Sunrise starts on the 1st of May 2013 and will ... read more ...
Mon 8th April 2013
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Following On Success of .TK, .ML To Offer Free Domains - Following on its highly successful management of the .TK registry Freedom Registry announced today its going to ‘Power” the  Dot ML,  the Mali domain name, .ML .ML domain names will be operated as ” generic, unrestricted, clean and global TLD focusing on individuals and businesses in- and outside Mali”. “Free domain names will be offered to all internet users in both Mali and other countries from July 15th onwards. ” “This General Availability will be preceded by a Sunrise and Landrush ... read more ...
Wed 3rd April 2013
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VentureBurn Covers Successful Domain Investors Story & Its About Co.za Space … - VentureBurn.com just highlighted a domain name investor success story and this time it wasn’t about a .com but about a ccTLD,  Co.Za the country code for South Africa. The investor is Stephen Gorman, Founder of digital marketing agency, Push Digital. “As Africa continues to come online, it is likely to follow the trends seen in the early 90s in the developed world. ” “A quick look at Sedo and it seems that some enterprising entrepreneurs who have already bought and listed sex.co.za ... read more ...
 
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VentureBurn Covers Successful Domain Investors Story & Its About Co.za Space, The ccTLD For South Africa - VentureBurn.com just highlighted a domain name investor success story and this time it wasn’t about a .com but about a ccTLD,  Co.Za the country code for South Africa. The investor is Stephen Gorman, Founder of digital marketing agency, Push Digital. “As Africa continues to come online, it is likely to follow the trends seen in the early 90s in the developed world. ” “A quick look at Sedo and it seems that some enterprising entrepreneurs who have already bought and listed sex.co.za on Sedo, ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Quick Poll: How Many .PW Domain Names Did You Register? - We haven’t done a quick poll in a while and thought we would see how many of you were playing in the new .PW space. We have none gone through Sunrise, Landrush and now General Availability earlier today. The question is if you registered any .Pw domains through either Sunrise, Landrush or GA how many did you register? If you didn’t register any then you can choose that answer According to the .PW registry it registered over 4,000 domain names in the first 1/2 hour. The Voting poll is on the right. If ... read more ...
 
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After Sunrise & Landrush .PW ccTLD Is Now Open For Live Registrations - The .PW registry which is billing itself as the The Professional Web, announced this morning that after the completion of the Sunrise and Land Rush Period .PW domain names are now in General Availability  meaning that they are being registered on a first come first serve basis. Over 100 ICANN accredited registrars are taking live registration for a .PW domain name. As far as cost goes I see one at least one registrar, Encirca.com is registering domains for as low as $5 for the 1st year with regular ... read more ...
Wed 20th March 2013
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Adamsnames The TLD Registry For gd, .tc & .vg Issues A Further Statement on Problems - We just received this statement from AdamsNames which has been undergoing some operational problems “Since 8th March 2013, many of our clients were contacted by some people who pretended to be AdamsNames Limited. They received the announcement of an alleged migration of our .gd, .tc and .vg TLD registry to another system, with the adamsnames.net website as a basis. We are seriously concerned about the confusion that was caused by this illegal action. Please be aware of the following facts: 1.       ... read more ...
Mon 18th March 2013
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Did Russian hackers reveal a soft spot for the Soviet Union with .su suffix? - Suspected Russian hackers last week posted private information apparently belonging to public figures such as Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian and LAPD chief Charlie Beck.Much of the media coverage concentrated on the details of the information published, but perhaps the more intriguing detail is that hackers chose to build their site with the domain suffix .su – the suffix for the former Soviet Union.The .su suffix – or country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) – has been around ... read more ...
Tue 12th March 2013
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African domain-name registrars have mixed reaction to ICANN push - African domain-name registrars responded with mixed reactions to details of ICANN's initiative on the continent, saying that while they should now have increased access to the Internet governance organization, increasing the number of registrars isn't all that needs to be done. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will immediately go ahead with plans to have six new representatives on the African continent as part of its Africa strategy, it announced during ... read more ...
 
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Afnic (.Fr) Opens Comment Period On Alternative Dispute Resolution For Domains - Afnic the organization that manages the ccTLD’s of .fr ( (France), .re (Reunion Island), .yt (Mayotte), .wf (Wallis and Futuna), .tf (French Southern Territories), .pm (Saint-Pierre and Miquelon) is launching a public consultation about setting up an alternative dispute resolution procedure, in conjunction with WIPO and has opened up the topic for comment. “As part of its assignment to provide a dispute resolution system that is accessible and balanced for right holders and holders of domain ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: AdamsNames Operators Of .TC, .GD & .VC: “Key-Systems Highjacked Our Site” - We received two responses overnight to our story yesterday in which we told you that AdamsNames.com which operates the ccTLD’s .TC, .GD .VC had been hacked and its back end provider Key-Systems  “locked the registry down” to proect it. However in the responses that we received from Adamsnames.com today one of which is in the form of  an open letter to the Internet Community; they tell quite a different story: The first comment we received was this: Our domain name of our website Adamsnames.com ... read more ...
Fri 8th March 2013
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.Pw Gets Its 100th & 101st Registrar: NetworkSolutions & Register.com - Network Solutions and Register.com, Web.com brands, 2 of the world’s top 10 registrars became .PW Registry’s 100th and 101st accredited partners respectively today. According to a press release that we received today, “.PW – the Professional Web, has partnered with industry giants like eNom, Key-Systems, ResellerClub, Gandi, Name.com, Ascio and many more. With 100 registrars aggressively promoting the namespace, .PW is expected to attract a large volume of first-time domain name registrants” “Many ... read more ...
Wed 6th March 2013
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Killer .Au Sites & Domains Hit The Market: Sydney.com.au, Melbourne.com.au, Auction.com.au - According to a press release we jusrt received some killer .com.au sites and domain name have just hit the market. “The websites sydney.com.au, melbourne.com.au, brisbane.com.au, adelaide.com.au and the domain name auction.com.au are for sale on the website namesell.com.”  “The sale is being brokered by Brisbane-based company Domain Guardians.”  “Mike Robertson from Domain Guardians said the sale presents an opportunity for a major player to own the commercial domain names mirroring four ... read more ...
Fri 1st March 2013
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Google: Not All ccTLD’s Are Created Equally in Generic Search … - There is a very interesting video posted on YouTube.com from Matt Cutts of Google who answered the question about how ccTLD's are viewed by Google especially when they are being used as domain hacks. Here is the question: "We have a vanity domain (http://ran.ge) that unfortunately isn't one of the generic TLDs, which means we can't set our geographic target in Webmaster Tools. Is there any way to still target our proper location?" In the 2:30 minute video, Matt Cutts makes it clear that ... read more ...