Facebook is trying to take away the domain facebook.nl from the Dutch owner. ‘They don’t have the right,’ says the owner, who wishes to remain unknown, ‘I’ve already registered facebook.nl earlier than they did!’ It’s now up to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), to make a ruling. Mid 2008, Facebook already tried to buy the […]
Read more >A while ago, the .br registry (Brasil) announced the launch of the .net.br domain. Today the sunrise for this extension started. The sunrise will last for 6 months. During this period, everyone who owns a .com.br name, can register this name under the .net.br extension. There’s only one condition, the .com.br name needs to be […]
Read more >Tuesday morning, around 8am, some servers of UltraDNS had serious problems. Some of their nameservers didn’t react anymore or answered very slowly. Because of this some of their customers also had serious problems. And UltraDNS does have, some important customers such as the .nu registry and Amazon.com. Besides they’re also the .biz and .us registry. […]
Read more >Steve Ryan has been trying to register the names porn.ie and pornography.ie for nearly 4 years. His requests were always turned down by IEDR (the .ie registry). They say they won’t register those names because they are offensive. Ryan didn’t agree on this. He and his lawyer wrote several letters, in which he referred to […]
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