A while ago, we already reported in detail about a lawsuit that took place in Kentucky. The governor of Kentucky seized 141 domain names which had something to do with gambling. However the judge decided that the governor of Kentucky didn’t have any jurisdiction about domain names. You can read the complete ruling here. Despite […]
Read more >A study done by Toptechworld showed that websites ending on the .hk extension (Hong Kong) are the most dangerous to surf to. The study analyzed 10 million frequently visit sites in 265 countries. 19,2% of all websites ending on .hk were a security threat for the visitors of those websites. The .hk extension is followed […]
Read more >As we mentioned before, the pre-registration period for .mx names starts pretty soon. This phase starts on May 1st but as from today you can pre-register your .mx domain name. However during this pre-registration period there are some restrictions. Only the current owners of a Mexican domain name (for instance .com.mx, .net.mx,…) can register this […]
Read more >Last year SIDN (.nl registry) registered a growth of 18% new registrations for the .nl domain. In 2008, 495.673 new .nl names were registered. At the end of 2008, the total amount of registered .nl domains was 3.191.127. Moreover, it turned out that the Netherlands have the highest domain name concentration in the world. Per […]
Read more >Pretty soon it will be possible to register names under the .eg domain. The Egyptian registry is releasing this toplevel domain. Allthough we don’t know all the restrictions for this extension yet, it is already very clear that registering a domain name under .eg will only be possible for some happy few. One of the […]
Read more >On May 1st, it will be possible again to register names under the .mx extension. The domain will be released in three phases. 1) The pre-registration period: This period starts May 1st 2009 and ends July 31st 2009 During this period the owners of a domain name under an Mexican extension (.com.mx, Org.mx, .net.mx,…) can […]
Read more >The .be registry (DNS.be) just registered the 900,000th .be name. It’s about the name artchaud.be. The name is linked to the website of a Belgian artist. ‘At the beginning of 2009, 860,000 names were registered, today 900,000. so that’s an average of a bit more than 10,000 names each month,’ says Hans Seeuws, spokesman of […]
Read more >In a previous post, we already said there was a conflict between the owner of facebook.nl and facebook.com. Facebook.com believed that the Dutchman, Mike Kolart, abused his domain name to create confusion and save money from ads. Kolart, however, denied this and said he had already registered the domain name before there was such a […]
Read more >Pretty soon there will be held two auctions for premium .me names. the first auction starts on April 23th and ends on April 29th. The second auction begins on May 14th and runs until May 20th. Everyone who wishes to do so, can bid on the names that are offered. Some examples of the offered […]
Read more >This afternoon at 2pm, the go-live fo the .co.nl extension begins. Everyone who wishes to do so, can register a name under this domain. There are no restrictions to register a name under this extension. Applications will be treated on a first come, first served basis.
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