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Tue 15th July 2014
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Wed 2nd July 2014
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Is het wel fair dat een land zijn ccTLD verkwanselt? - En soms gaan de inkomsten uit domeinnamen echt wel naar de verkeerde...Je kent ze wel, die leuke domeinnamen waarbij gebruik gemaakt wordt van een slimme combinatie met een cc (country code) TLD (Top Level Domain). .tv bijvoorbeeld, dat eigenlijk bij het minuscule eiland Tuvalu hoort, maar dat dankbaar gebruikt wordt door makers van tv-programma's. Of .me bijvoorbeeld, dat toebehoort aan Montenegro.Nu is daar op zich niets mis mee - tenminste als de verkoop van domeinnamen ten goede komt aan de ... read more ...
 
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TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP - A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch.ch For those that don’t know a domain hack is where a registrant uses a domain extension, typically a two letter country code (ccTLD) to spell a word. In this case the .Ch extension is the country code for Switzerland and since its a ccTLD is subject to the rules, regulations and laws of the underlying country. The short decision was published in ... read more ...
Sun 29th June 2014
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One Tiny Country Gets Some Exposure from One Large Movie Franchise - The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The population is 56, yes 56. It is safe to say that most have no idea that the Pitcairn Islands have their own country code, and even fewer would know what two letters represent this tiny nation. The country code is .PN. Pitcairn is getting the greatest piece of marketing they could ever hope for with the release of a new Hunger Games trailer. The blockbuster book and movie franchise released a trailer on June ... read more ...
Sat 28th June 2014
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Since Mi.com sold for $3.6 million, Mark Monitor has been scooping up other Mi … - Back in April, Chinese mobile device maker Xiaomi purchased Mi.com for $3.6 million, some reporters noted that the MI made perfect sense for the company as Mi can work as an acronym for Mobile Internet. Since that acquisition it seems that brand protection specialist Mark Monitor has been out scooping up Mi domains in other country codes. Mi.co.uk was reported sold on DN Journal for $14,000. The domain was reported sold by DomainNameSales.com. This domain was reported sold before the Mi.com sale, ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
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Kurds want a country code top-level domain - BasNews (Germany):   Kurdish organizations have sent a request to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an attempt to obtain an ccTLD for the Kurdistan Region. Every country has its own code: (.DE) for Germany, (.SE) for Sweden, (.IR) for Iran, etc. However, this code is not unique to countries, and can also be used by stateless nations, like Iraqi Kurdistan. Other unrecognized people including the Catalans, Basques, Bretons and Székelys, have also requested a ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2014
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.UK Gets Over 50,000 Registrations On It’s 1st Day - According to itproportal.com,  the new .UK extension has surpassed 50,000 domain registrations in the first 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, expects 10 million domain name registrations and why not? There are over 10 million existing domain holders with a .co.uk or one of the other variations that will have first crack at getting the shorter address and with prices set below a .com, £3.50 for a single year (about $5 and £2.50 per year About $4 for multiple year ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Nominet: .uk-TLD ohne Präfixe für alle verfügbar - Die Organisation Nominet betreibt und verwaltet die Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .uk für Webseiten aus dem Vereinigten Königreich. Bisher konnten Webseiten aber nicht direkt mit dieser TLD registriert werden. Vielmehr waren unterschiedliche Präfixe als Second-Level-Domains verpflichtend, etwa ac.uk oder co.uk. Diese Einschränkung hebt Nominet ab sofort auf. Der Schauspieler und als Early-Adopter und Technik-Kommentator bekannte Stephen Fry ist mit seiner Webseite bereits umgezogen. Diese soll laut ... read more ...
 
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Norwegians say yes to ‘.no’ -

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Fri 30th May 2014
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Associação DNS divulga novas regras de registo de DOMÍNIOS.PT - O DNS.PT, associação privada sem fins lucrativos responsável pela gestão e operação do ccTLD português, anuncia as novas regras de registo de domínios .PT, em vigor a partir do próximo dia 16 de junho. As mudanças surgem na sequência da Associação DNS.PT ter assumido o papel de Registry de .PT, sendo necessário efetuar as alterações formais daí decorrentes. No âmbito das novas regras, destaque para a adaptação das disposições interpretativas no que respeita ... read more ...
Fri 16th May 2014
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‘.ca’ and ‘.uk’ registries introduce security measures to prevent domain hijacking -

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Thu 1st May 2014
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NIRA registers 16, 981 new domain names, renews 7, 571 - The administrator of the Nigeria’s .ng country code Top Level Domain, ccTLD, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association said it registered additional 16, 981 domain names in 2013 while another 7, 571 were renewed during the year. This was disclosed by the President, NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, during the 6th Annual General Meeting, AGM, of the association in Lagos this week. NIRA is the manager and the non-governmental self-regulatory body for the .ng ccTLD and its associated sub level domain ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2014
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Cosa è successo nel 2013 nel mondo dei domini web - # 10 – Registro di Sicurezza esposto a vulnerabilitàCon 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 (Cina), .BE (Belgio), .MY (Malaysia) sono stati tutti influenzati da problemi derivanti da attacchi DDoS, Social Engineering e attacchi Brute Force. # 9 – Nel complesso la crescita del mercato dei domini continuaSecondo il Domain Name Industry Brief di Verisign, ... read more ...
Tue 15th April 2014
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Successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for … - ICANN announced in a press release the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia. The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009. First requests were received starting 16 November 2009. The process enables countries and territories to submit requests to ICANN for IDN ccTLDs, representing their respective country ... read more ...
Fri 11th April 2014
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KSregistry Becomes Registry For .VG But ccTLD Is Frozen Until April 15th … - The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Virgin Islands (TRC) has sourced out the operation of .VG, the ccTLD of Virgin Islands to KSregistry GmbH. Due to the difficulties with the former .VG zone manager, IANA performed a re-delegation which brought back the .VG zone under the control and the responsibility of the TRC on April 11, 2014. However, the .VG zone will remain frozen until April 15, 2014, 10:00 UTC. While the .VG zone is frozen, no registrations, modifications, transfers, deletions ... read more ...
 
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KSregistry Becomes Registry For .VG But ccTLD Is Frozen Until Apr 15th; Registrations Resume May 12th - The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Virgin Islands (TRC) has sourced out the operation of .VG, the ccTLD of Virgin Islands to KSregistry GmbH. Due to the difficulties with the former .VG zone manager, IANA performed a re-delegation which brought back the .VG zone under the control and the responsibility of the TRC on April 11, 2014. However, the .VG zone will remain frozen until April 15, 2014, 10:00 UTC. While the .VG zone is frozen, no registrations, modifications, transfers, deletions ... read more ...
Thu 27th March 2014
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Google’s Matt Cutts: Be Careful Linking Sister Country Sites Together When… - In yesterday's video from Google's Matt Cutts, Matt addressed a pretty straight forward question we've touched on here a few times about how to inform Google of multiple ccTLDs for your business. The real answer is to use a href lang and that is the best approach.But Matt gets into linking between your ccTLDs. Here are some points on that:(1) It is okay to link to all your ccTLDs but don't over do it in the footer. (2) At max link to only 4 or 5 ccTLDs in your footer (3) It's best to set ... read more ...
Wed 26th March 2014
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CENTR Reports on Latest ccTLD Stats - The Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) has released its 7th edition of DomainWire Stat Report with special focus on European country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs). According to the report, the top 20 largest ccTLDs currently represent roughly 82% of all ccTLD registrations globally and 37% of all domain names globally (gTLDs, ccTLDs etc). The ccTLD for Tokelau (.tk) has the largest zone with over 22 million reported domain names (see chart below). Note that ... read more ...
 
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Le .tn, ce nom de domaine qui commence à avoir du succès sur la … - Depuis la libéralisation des noms de domaine nationaux, la fameuse extension .tn, à partir de 2009, le nombre des sites Internet tunisiens ayant adopté le .tn dans leur adresse Web ne cesse d’augmenter. D’après les statistiques de registre.tn, le site du registre national des ccTLD .tn de l’ATI, le nombre de ces noms de domaines (NDD) a littéralement explosé depuis la période sunrise 1 en début 2009 avec une année record, qu’est 2013. Et les performances de ce premier ... read more ...
Fri 21st March 2014
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Stock Analysis firm Trefis On Verisign: Risk Is ccTLD’s; Doesn’t Mention new … - Stock Analysis firm Trefis had some interesting comments on Verisign in a note entitled “Drop In Verisign Shares Highlights Risks Associated With Domain Business” The note went on to say that the biggest risk to the Verisign business is growth in ccTLD domain names. Trefis didn’t mention the new gTLD’s at all. It would be one thing to mention new gTLD’s and then conclude that the wouldn’t impact Verisign market share of the global domain market, but for the company not to even mention ... read more ...
Thu 20th March 2014
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Drop In VeriSign Shares Highlights Risks Associated With Domain Business - Shares of VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) dropped 6% on Tuesday, March 18, after the U.S. National Telecommunications Information Admisnistration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC), announced its intent to transition key internet domain name functions. In essence, the U.S. DoC would be giving up its control on certain functions of the NTIA, which handles registrations of domain names. The sell-off post the announcement was a result of the market’s uncertainty in VeriSign ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2014
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International SEO Tips – What Are the Game Changing Factors? - Tweet Buffer When I was at SES London in February, I received lots of great questions from search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners around Europe at the International SEO session and Meet the Experts roundtable. Some of the questions were very specific, yet rather basic, such as, “Do I have to have a .de ccTLD to have a website for Germany?” or, “I don’t have a local address, so that is why I don’t rank well in Spain, right?” There ... read more ...
 
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Afilias und andere führende Internet-Organisationen begrüßen Fortschritte bei … - Dublin, 18. März 2014 – Afilias, Registrierungsstelle für die Top-Level-Domains (TLD) .INFO, .ORG, .AERO, .MOBI, .ASIA, .XXX, .PRO, .POST und globaler Anbieter von Registry-Services, unterstützt die Erklärungen der für die Koordinierung der Internet-Infrastruktur zuständigen technischen Internet-Organisationen (IETF, IAB, ccTLD ROs, ICANN, ISOC und W3C). Diese hatten zur Ankündigung der US-Regierung, Änderungen am Vertrag zur Verwaltung der IANA-Funktionen vorzunehmen, Stellung bezogen. Als ... read more ...
Sat 15th March 2014
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Afilias Joins Internet Technical Leaders in Welcoming IANA Globalization Progress - DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Afilias today announced its support for the statements by the Internet technical organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet infrastructure (IETF, IAB, ccTLD ROs, ICANN, ISOC and W3C) regarding the announcement by the U.S. government of the suggested changes related to the IANA functions contract. As a TLD Registry Operator and a leading registry technology services ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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Telecom Namibia seeks changes in domain name registrar - Telecom Namibia has called for a change in the manner in which the country's domain name registry is handled, proposing that a multi-stakeholder body be created. MD Frans Ndoroma said that the Namibian country code top level domain (ccTLD) ought to be managed and administered in an effective, transparent and equitable manner, and in conformity with global internet policies. According to Ndoroma, the existing arrangement for the management of Namibia's ccTLD is flawed in a number ... read more ...