ICANN, the organization that overlooks everything regarding domain name registrations, has sent a notice of termination to EstDomains. This Estionian domain name registrar is especially known because it is very popular with internet crooks. A reasonably large amount of domain names used for phishing or spam are registered through this Estonian registrar. While we can’t […]
Read more >Lots of people are asking us questions regarding mails claiming their domain name is registered with falsified information. The mail asks for the data to be verified and/or corrected. And they make the threat to deactivate the domain name if the information isn’t corrected soon. The e-mail looks like it was sent by “eNom”, but […]
Read more >If we may believe the polls, Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. The domain name market seems to follow the polls. There are much more names registered in which Obama’s name appears than names in which the name of McCain appears. So if it comes to registrations of new domain […]
Read more >On Thursday November 6th there will be a new registration policy in force for .si names. Arnes (.si registry) has made it easier to register a .si domain name. From November 6th, anyone who wants, can register a .si name. Local presence isn’t necessary anymore. There is also no maximum number, so you can register […]
Read more >At the beginning of December, the sunrise period for .tel names starts. By this initiative, Telnic (the .tel registry) wants to become a decent competitor for the White and Yellow pages. But what’s a .tel name really about and what are the advantages? For starters, a .tel name offers everybody the possibility to centralize his […]
Read more >As mentioned before on this site, ICANN soon offers the possibility to register a personal extension. A while ago, Mark Demesmaeker, a member of the Flemish Parlemiant, asked the question if Flanders would also receive his own extension. Tuesday, Kris Peeters, the Flemish vice president answered this question affirmatively. What will be the Flemish alternative […]
Read more >Have you always wanted to know how popular your domain name is? DNfame.com and DNSrank.com now launch a nice tool to examen the popularity of your domain name. If you submit your name on these websites you get to see for instance your pagerank on Google and how many other website link to your website. […]
Read more >Soon ICANN will offer the possibility to register your own domain extension, for instance .yourcompany, .yourname. However, if you want to register a country, city or county name, there are certain restrictions. 1) If you want to register a country, city or county name as an extension, you need to have the permission of the […]
Read more >The SIDN (registry for .nl domain names) reports that the failure in their system has been resolved. Between 18h30 and 19h30, an attempt was made to restart the registration system, after which the SIDN had to conclude that the problems no longer existed. The real cause of this failure however has not yet been found. […]
Read more >The failure that appeared earlier today at the .nl registry (SIDN), hasn’t been solved yet. SIDN can’t tell yet when normal operations will be resumed again. For the latest news on this, you can also check the website of the SIDN.
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