We have received several requests for information regarding a letter from “Domain Renewal Group”, which seems to have arrived during the previous days with owners of .com and .net domain names in Belgium and The Netherlands. First of all: this letter tries to mislead you into thinking that you need to pay them to simply […]
Read more >‘Scotland will bid for the personal extension .scot,’ tells Alex Salmond, Scotland’s first Minister. ‘As soon as it possible to register your own extension through ICANN, we’ll try to register .scot,’ says Salmond. ‘It’s time that the Scottish people get their own identity on the Internet,’ adjust Salmond. The Scottish government held several surveys amongst […]
Read more >If someone registers your registered trademark or company name, or a name that is confusingly similar, you can start an alternative dispute resolution procedure (ADR). This ADR needs to be introduced with Cepina and the costs for this introduction are €1620. If you win, DNS.be reimburses you 50% of the costs. From February 15th this […]
Read more >In 2008, over 200,000 new .be names were registered. It’s the first time that the number of new registrations reaches such a high level. ‘Two weeks before the end of the year, already 212,715 new .be names are registered,’ says Hans Seeuws, spokesman of DNS.be. ‘ It’s the first time that the number of new […]
Read more >DNS be offers the possibility to better protect your .be domain name against unwanted requests for trades and transfers. You can choose to lock your domain name through your current registrar. ‘If a .be name has the status locked requests for trades and transfers will always be refused at first, ‘ says DNS CEO Marc […]
Read more >VeriSign released his rapport about the third quarter of 2008. This rapport shows that, despite the worldwide crisis, the domain name registration business is still doing well. The number of total registrations grew but the number of new registrations declined a little (2% in comparison with the second quarter of 2008). This rapport shows an […]
Read more >Eurid expects to introduce IDN in September 2009. There will only be a landrush, no sunrise. This means that there’s no special protection for the owners of a registered trademark or for the owners of a registered .eu name. Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names that contain characters such as letters with accents and […]
Read more >bNamed has reduced the price for a .cn domain name for end users with almost 30%. Through this reduction the price for a Chinese domain name is now the same as the price for a .be or .com name. With a booming economy in China, a .cn name is always interesting. Up until now, there […]
Read more >The sunrise period for .tel names has started today and runs until Monday, February 2, 2009. During this period, holders of a registered brand name can register this name as a .tel domain name. During the sunrise, the selection method is first come, first served principle. If you wish to register a .tel name during […]
Read more >.tv is doing a better and better every year. This year an additional 40% .tv names were registered. This extension is mainly used by the media. Television – and production companies often use this extension. But .tv is also more. This domain is associated with young, interactive and flashy. So you often see this extension […]
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