A while ago, we already posted an article about the decision of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in which they approved that dealers could use a registered trademark in their domain name, as long as they meet some conditions. Volvo also experienced this. Volvo filed a case under the dispute resolution panel of WIPO […]
Read more >bNamed has reduced the price for .ac (Ascension Island, a small island near the African West Coast) with approximately 25%. This reduction was possible because of the volume of .ac names and the favorable rate of the pound. With a domain name ending on .ac, you can show everybody in a playful way that they […]
Read more >In 2008 the global amount of domain names rose with 16%. At the end of December 2008, there were 177 million domain names registered worldwide. Despite the crises, the domain name market continues to grow. However it is a slower growth then in 2007. In 2007, the total amount of domain names rose with 27% […]
Read more >Approximately 10 months ago, the .me domain name was relaunched. And that defenitely wasn’t a bad decision. Right now there are already 200,000 .me name registrations. This makes .ME the fastest growing new ccTLD launch on record! With 200,000 registrations coming from 181 different countries, including the US, the UK, France, India, Israel, Germany,… it […]
Read more >be the first to register your domain name under the .mx domain. Because of the re-opening of the .mx domain, it is now the ideal moment to register your name under the .com.mx domain. If you do so, you can register your .mx domain already during the pre-registration period. To be able to register your […]
Read more >Pretty soon, it will be possible to register domain names under the .mx domain. There were already several extensions available for Mexico (.com.mx, .org.mx, .edu.mx,…) but now the toplevel domain .mx is re-opened. The .mx domain was already available from February 1989 until March 1997 but it was ment for schools and university. The other […]
Read more >We are now in the sunrise period for the .co.nl domain. This period has started February 10th and ends March 10th. During this period, the owners of a registered trademark can register their name under this extension. There are however some conditions to which you need to meet and you need to be willing to […]
Read more >The domain name registrations don’t seem to suffer from the financial crisis. Especially .cn, .de and .at names are doing great. In January 2009, there were over 14 million registered .cn names. The Chinese extension is doing an excellent job. Also the German extension is doing very well, with over 12,5 million registered .de names. […]
Read more >Even before the sunrise periode for the .co.nl domain has started, it is already been extended from 16 days to 1 month. The sunrise starts on Tuesday February 10th and ends Tuesday March 10th. During the sunrise, the owners of a registered trademark can register their name under the .co.nl domain. During this period application […]
Read more >DNS.be, the central .be registry, has withdrawn 163 .be domain names. This domain names were all related to phishingwebsites or involved in a so called ‘fast flux network’. In a fast flux network, the name servers to which a domain name is linked, change constantly. In this way the cybercriminal hopes to keep his site […]
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