Tag Archives: ccTLDs

Mon 16th September 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google’s Matt Cutts: Spammers Rarely Spam Using Multiple ccTLDs - In a recent video answer by Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, Google said that spammers rarely use multiple or mass number of ccTLDs in an effort to spam. This comment came from Matt Cutts when he answered a question on if it is duplicate content to have the same content on an IPv4 and IPv6 web sites. Matt said this is not a spam or duplicate content issue. Matt said it is like to having similar content on multiple country domain names and thus this is okay. Google’s head of ... read more ...
Thu 5th September 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
DOTZON warnt vor potenziellen Gefährdungen für lokale Netzwerke … - Berlin (ots) - IT- und Netzwerk-Administratoren verwenden seit jeher für die Benennung von Netzwerken und angeschlossenen Geräten eingängige Namen. Beispiele für solche Namen sind fritz.box, netz.berlin, server.web, .vpn, .host oder .local. Nach der von der Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) veröffentlichten Studie "Name Collision in the DNS" könnte es künftig zu Konflikten zwischen neuen Top-Level-Domains und solchen Namen kommen. "Diese durchaus gängige und bisher ... read more ...
Wed 31st July 2013
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ASEOHosting Clarifies International SEO Advantage of Using Country Code Top … - Web Hosting News – Hudson, FL – ASEOHosting, a leading provider of SEO hosting and multiple IP hosting, commented today on the confusion surrounding the use of country code top-level domains for international SEO. SEO experts at the company observed a number of misunderstandings surrounding best practices for the use of ccTLDs and have released a statement to clarify the advantages that they can bring to businesses targeting specific geographical locations with their international ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
When Is It Appropriate To Use ccTLD’s? Via Matt Cutts - ccTLD is an acronym that stands for ‘country code top level domain’. In March of this year, Nick Paterman (one of our authors), mentioned that the appropriate use of a ccTLD is for the country or language that your website is based in. For example, the .US ccTLD is reserved for US citizens. Essentially, you can pick any domain you want. Yesterday Matt Cutts filmed the following video which really helps us understand how Google feels about ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Matt Cutts warns against use of foreign URLs - Website owners should think twice before investing in a foreign URL, according to Matt Cutts. In a video cited by searchengineland.com, Google’s head of web spam suggested that novelty URLs like this could be damaging to a website’s SEO in its own country. Cutts confirmed that Google does believe that websites with a country code top-level domain (ccTLDs) intend to aim their content at users in this specific region.    According to webpronews.com, Cutts was answering a query that questioned ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
ASEOHosting Clarifies International SEO Advantage of Using Country Code Top … – Virtual - ASEOHosting, a leading provider of SEO hosting and multiple IP hosting, commented today on the confusion surrounding the use of country code top-level domains for international SEO. SEO experts at the company observed a number of misunderstandings surrounding best practices for the use of ccTLDs and have released a statement to clarify the advantages that they can bring to businesses targeting specific geographical locations with their international search engine optimization. Hudson, FL (PRWEB) ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Matt Cutts et le détournement des extensions géographiques - Matt Cutts explique dans une nouvelle vidéo qu'il n'est pas bon d'utiliser une extension géographique (.it, .de, .ch...) pour un site qui ne proposerait pas de contenu ciblé vers ce pays. Un conseil que Google ne suit pas toujours... Matt Cutts a posté une nouvelle vidéo (3'10", tee-shirt jaune toujours aussi horrible), sur le thème Should I use ccTLDs for sites not targeted to those countries? ou, en français, "Dois-je utiliser une extension géographique (.de, .ch, .fr, .it) pour mon ... read more ...
Mon 29th July 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Matt Cutts releases new video about regulating ccTLDs for general purposes - Cutts explains when Google decides to make a ccTLD global. Google’s SEO/Webspam leader Matt Cutts has released a new video about using a country code top level domain name for a website not targeted to that country. His message is the same that Google has been giving for many years, but he added some more color about how the company decides what should become generic. Google makes some domains globally targeted because they’ve been widely adopted for global use ... read more ...
Wed 3rd July 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Gold Rush in the European Domain Market - Highland Park, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/03/2013 -- The domain names in the European domain market are constantly growing in numbers in Europe and even in some parts of the world. The Council of European National Top level Domain Registries, also known as CENTR, is a non-profit organization in Europe which manages domain registries. They are also responsible to keep the statistics of domain registrations on track. Their present numbers deliberately show that top level domain registrations have ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Onshore Web Hosting is a Hit Where?! - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) – Call it national pride, maybe, but South Koreans really love onshore web hosting, statistics from analytics firm Pingdom recently revealed. According to the report, the country domestically hosted 97% of its ccTLDs – aka the .KR domain suffix. That’s despite 42% of the world’s top websites relying on server hosting in the United States. Meanwhile, domestic hosting of ccTLDs was found to be popular elsewhere for other locations including ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, July 2013 - You Are Here: Home » Africa/International, ICT » Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, July 2013 Dubbed the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum, the Internet Society, African Top Level Domain (AfTLD) and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), are organising a conference for registries, registrars, experts and policy makers to foster cross-border collaboration. The event, which comes off from July 12, 2013 to July 13, 2013 in Durban, ... read more ...
 
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Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, July 12 … - The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 - 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent.Over the years, the Internet Society (http://www.internetsociety.org, AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa through capacity building and technical support. ... read more ...
Tue 14th May 2013
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in SA – Bizcommunity - The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent. Over the years, the Internet Society, AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa through capacity building and technical support. Despite the support, the growth and sustainability of African ccTLDs and adoption of new technologies remains very low as compared ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in SA - The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa and to advance the domain name industry and domain name registrations on the continent. Over the years, the Internet Society, AfTLD, and ICANN have supported the continued development and growth of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in Africa through capacity building and technical support. Despite the support, the growth and sustainability of African ccTLDs and adoption of new technologies remains very low as compared ... read more ...
Mon 6th May 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.GD is another arise adult call to tech firms about ccTLDs - Does the term “shadow registry” concern you? It should if you own a .gd domain name. Over the past few years startups and tech darlings have increasingly embraced “cute” ccTLDs and domain hacks that include ccTLDs. A key example is bitly. Bitly, which created millions of shortened URLs at Bit.ly, found out that using a ccTLD is not necessarily the safest thing to do. .Ly is the country code for Libya. With everything that happened in Libya over the past couple ... 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 ... read more ...
Mon 11th March 2013
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DCA Registry Services Participates in ICANN Africa Strategy Meeting, Addis … - DCA Registry Servs CentralNic Partnership-Empowering ccTLDS with Tech TransferDCA Registry Services and its UK Technical Partner CentralNic participated in the just ended African Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting held at the UNECA Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6-8 March 2013, where it played a part among other African organizations like African IGF, AfriNIC, AFTLD, ISOC Africa, and the ATU and ITU. ICANN participated in this meeting that saw regional leaders ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Registry Operator AdamsNames Hacked Locking Up .TC, .GD & .VC - According to a press release we just received by  KSregistry GmbH, which is owned by Key-Systems GmbH, “a third party has executed a transfer of the domain name adamsnames.net and now operates a shadow registry under this domain”. Adams Names is the Registry for the ccTLD’s of .TC, .GD and .VG and uses KSregistry as its back end to operate the registries. “According to the CEO of AdamsNames Ltd., Mr. Carsten Pauli, this transfer was not authorized by the registry operator”. “KSregistry ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
Written by DomainHack.er in IT and tagged
I domini .it ed altri ccTLDs in vendita nelle aste GreatDomains di Sedo - Sedo, il più grande ed unico marketplace globale di nomi a dominio con un inventario di 16 milioni di domini messi in vendita, si preoccupa di fornire le migliori opportunità ottimizzando i propri servizi sia per aiutare i compratori a trovare il dominio appropriato sia per dare ai proprietari di domini le migliori opzioni di vendita.Basandosi sulla propria esperienza nel mercato globale dei domini, Sedo  ha notato che alcuni paesi si stanno sviluppando costantemente e le relative estensioni sono ... read more ...
Tue 11th September 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Have ccTLD questions? Just ask Alex - Get answers to your toughest country code domain questions. Some country code domain names are fairly easy to register. Most of them aren’t. Frankly, figuring out how to register some of the more obscure ccTLDs could take a Ph.D. But now there’s a free resource for all of your ccTLD questions: Ask Alex. It’s a new section on Tucows’ OpenSRS web site where company employee Alex Schwertner answers all of your questions about ccTLDs. Residency requirements? ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Top Domain Name Wire stories of August - ccTLDs, domain parking, and more make the top five list. If August is over, why is it still 100 degrees in Austin? Sigh… Here are the top 5 news stories from Domain Name Wire last month. Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation! – think about political and technical risks before setting up your web site on a country code domain name. Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute – so this guy creates a list, and his name is supposedly ... read more ...
Fri 17th August 2012
Tue 19th June 2012
Written by DomainHack.er in ES and tagged
Tokelau: un pequeño país con una gran presencia en la web - Por Tommy Andres (CNN) — Si eres una de las empresas que compiten por uno de los casi 2.000 nuevos dominios de nivel superior (o gTLDs, por sus siglas en inglés), debes tener mucho dinero. Solo la petición cuesta aproximadamente 185.000 dólares. Pero si eres un hombre promedio haciendo su propio sitio web o blog, hay opciones mucho más baratas. Una de las más populares es .tk. Un dominio de nivel superior con código de un país, similar a .ca para Canadá o .fr para Francia. Pero ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Internet tem 215 mi de domínios registrados - São Paulo - A web encerrou o primeiro semestre de 2011 com uma base de mais de 215 milhões de domínios registrados. De acordo com um relatório da Verisign, somente no segundo trimestre do período 5,2 milhões de novos domínios foram registrados, o que indica um crescimento de 2,5% em relação aos primeiros três meses do ano. Comparado com 2010, o crescimento é de 16,9 milhões de registros, ou 8,6%, comparado com o ano passado. A base de Domínios de Primeiro Nível com Códigos ... read more ...
Tue 18th May 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ccTLD Most Important Factor in Google Location Determination - Targeted a specific country? Get your ccTLD. It’s no secret that Google uses several factors to determine where a web site is “located” and thus determine its relevance to each individual searcher. But there has been a lot of debate about which factors are most important. The two I hear mostly commonly are if the domain has a particular country code domain name and where the web host is. Now Google search-spam czar Matt Cutts has laid it out on the table. ... read more ...