Since September 2008, there has been a five-fold increase in .pro names registrations. Since September a new policy came into force which makes it easier for everybody to register a .pro name. This new policy is clearly very efficient. ‘We made .Pro available to tens of millions of professionals and entities worldwide,’ said Catherine Sigmar, […]
Read more >There has been launched a proposal to release a new extension .music. This extension is aiming to give musicians, artists, bands, record companies,… a clear identity on the net. This is also an extension which makes immediately clear what the website will be about. Not only professional musicians could use this extension, also bars, clubs […]
Read more >As we reported earlier on this site, the court of Kentucky has made a final decision about the 141 seized domains related to online gambling. The ruling was to the detriment of the governement of Kentucky who had seized the domain names. However the governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, doesn’t agree with the ruling and […]
Read more >dotMobi, the registry for .mobi domain names, considers the idea to release 1 and 2 characters domains. Until now, nobody already knows a lot about it. Fact is that it will be impossible to register domain names which contain a country extension. So registering be.mobi isn’t an option. Here you can find a list of […]
Read more >A while ago, we already told you that you should beware of letters from Domain Renewal Group (DRG). This now applies also for letters from Network Media Group. However, they even go a bit further. DRG sent you a letter in which they told you, you had to pay them to renew certain domain names. […]
Read more >The day before yesterday, non-executive director Jim Davies, quit his job at Nominet. This didn’t happen without a fuss. According to Nominet, Davies, who was elected by the Nominet members in May 2008, made a number a false allegations in his resignation letter towards Bob Gilbert, Nominet’s Chairman, and Lesley Cowley, Nominet’s CEO. Jim Davies […]
Read more >The sunrise period for .co.nl domain starts Tuesday February 10th and ends Thursday February 26th. During this sunrise every holder of a registered trademark can register this mark under .co.nl domain. There is however one condition to which you need to meet and you need to be willing to submit the following information: The domain […]
Read more >The number of .be names has risen with almost 17% in 2008. At the end of 2008, there were 859,474 domain names registered with DNS.be. That’s an increase of 16.7% compared with 2007, when there were 736,498 domain names registered. ‘Although there’s a growth in .be registrations the net growth is not as high as […]
Read more >Last year the government of Kentucky seized 141 domain names related to online gambling. You can read the whole article about the seizure here. Now the court has made a final ruling. There was decided that the government of Kentucky doesn’t have jurisdiction over domain names because domain names are not “gambling devices” as prohibited […]
Read more >The French government has called for tenders from organisations interested in becoming the central .fr registry for the next 7 years. At the moment AFNIC is the central registry but apparently the French government wants everbody to take a shot. The call for tenders is a complete surprise. No one even ever considered the possibility […]
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