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.yu disappears completely

The .yu domain (Yugoslavia) disappears completely. Since Yugoslavia fell apart, it wasn’t possible anymore to register new .yu names but already existing .yu names were still supported. However as from October 1st the .yu extension will disappear completely. This domain will no longer be supported. Since beginning 2008, people who own a .yu domain name […]

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Are cybersquatters taking over the Internet?

Unfortunately, it’s definitely starting to look like this. A few days ago, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), published a report which shows that 8% more complaints were filed in 2008. WIPO is the organisation where owners of a registered trademark can file a complaint when their trademark is being infringed. In 2008, a record […]

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1 million .jp names registered

The Japanese registry has published a report which shows the figures of 2008 and of the first quarter of 2009. Without a doubt, the biggest event in 2008 happened on March 1st when 1 million registrations were reached. On March 1st 2009, approximately 1.1 million .jp names were registered. So we can’t talk about a […]

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Release .cm

The registry of Cameroon has decided to release the .cm domain. Pretty soon it will be possible to register names under the .cm extension. The release of .cm will happen in 3 phases: First phase: sunrise This phase starts on June 15th and ends on July 14th. During the sunrise, everyone who owns a registered […]

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Better security for DNS

Still this year, the entire DNS root is passing on to DNSSEC this year in order to increase security. In fact DNS is the phone book of the Internet. When you enter a domain name, you surf to a specific site since this domain name is translated to a certain ip-address. DNS realizes this transformation, […]

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Local presence .co.id

Since recently bNamed offers local presence for the .co.id extension (Indonesia). Because of this, it’s becoming much easier to register this extension. The only other restriction to register a name under this Indonesian domain is that the domain name needs to be the same as the company name or the registered trademark of the applicant. […]

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.com.ar and .org.ar names are going to be limited

The Ministery of Foreign Affaires in Argentina has decided they’re going to limit the number of .com.ar and .org.ar names per registrant. They made this decision because they noticed lots of .com.ar and .org.ar names are being registered without being used. The Ministery wants this situation to end and therefore they decided to limit the […]

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