Yesterday, we’ve extended our list of extensions and now we have lowered the price for another extension, namely .com.gt (Guatemala). The price for this domain has been reduced by 50%. One of the reasons for this reduction was our amount of .com.gt domain names. Moreover the registration of .com.gt domain name has been further automated. […]
Read more >bNamed has added 2 extensions to their list namely .hn (Honduras) and .bi (Burundi). Everyone who wishes to do so can register a domain name under those extensions. The only restriction which applies for both domains is that names which are registered under those extensions need to be registered for more than 1 year.
Read more >A while ago, we already posted a message telling you that Russia was the first country which would make use of the decision of ICANN to allow non Latin characters in extension. Russia decided to introduce the .РФ extension. The sunrise for this new domain starts tomorrow and will end on March 10th 2010. During […]
Read more >Café.eu, couturière.eu, leçons.eu and à-volonté.eu, these are only a few examples of domain names you’ll be able to register pretty soon. On December 10th, the landrush for .eu IDN domain names begins (Internationalised Domain Names). These domain names make sure that names which contain non Latin characters can also be registered. A few examples of […]
Read more >There seems to be lots of confusion regarding the launch of the first domain name extension in Arabic script. The Egypt government put out a press release stating that they would apply with ICANN for the TLD .مصر (.masr or .misr, which is Egypt in Arab) on 16/11/2009. This has clearly been seen by some […]
Read more >A while ago, we already posted a message about the announcement ICANN made at their yearly convention. They’ve decided that it is possible from now on to use non Latin charachters as an extension. This means that Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic,.. characters can now be used as an extension. The Eastern World was very pleased with […]
Read more >Recently bNamed has become a .pl registrar. This means we have a direct link with the .pl registry for registering those domain names. Thanks to this register, we’ve been able to lower our price for a .pl registration. The price has been reduced by 30%.
Read more >Nominet (the .co.uk registry) has just released its annual ‘Domain name industry’ report. The report contains some interesting findings and results. One of the first things the report mentions is that in September 2009, 187.6 million domain names were registered worldwide. This is an increase of 8% compared to September 2008, meaning that between September […]
Read more >SnapNames has recently discovered that it was defrauded by one of its own employees. SnapNames is a company which organises auctions for domain names. One of their employees has set up an account in the SnapNames system under a false name and under this name bid in auctions which were provided by SnapNames. The bids […]
Read more >ICANN recently announced at its annual meeting, which was held in Korea this year, that Chinese, Arabic, Korean and some other non-Latin characters can be used as an extension to register a domain name. It is absolutely a possibility that soon. “中国” (. cn) will be used as a domain name extension. CINIC, the Chinese […]
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