DENIC (.de registry) has changed the rules to transfer a .de domain name. From February 1st, an authorisation key (auth key) will be required in order to transfer a .de name. Your current registrar needs to provide you this code. Up until now, all you had to do, when you wanted to transfer a .de […]
Read more >As from February 7th 2010, the Colombian registry relaxes the registration procedure for Colombian domain names significantly. Currently notarised paperwork is needed to register a domain name under the Colombian domain. As from February 7th, this will be no longer needed. It will also be possible for an individual to register a name under the […]
Read more >A few days ago, ICANN contacted the Haitian registry. Everyone who works here, has survived the severe earthquake and theaftershocks that hit the country. Understandably, the staff is in shock. Many have lost their homes and are impacted by what happened in recent days. Regarding the infrastructure of the .ht registry, there’s good and bad […]
Read more >Things ain’t going great at DNS.be. A few weeks ago Marc Van Wesemael (CEO) and Peter Janssen (CTO) already decided to leave the company. Today we received the message that Jan Jansen (Chief Operations), Geert Debyser (Chief Software Development) and the spokesman Hans Seeuws are leaving the Belgian domain administrator. These latter three would resign […]
Read more >On February 1st the sunrise for .lu IDN domain names will start. This sunrise will end on March 31st. From April 1st on, everyone who wishes to do so, can register a .lu IDN domain name. From then on, applications will be handled on a first come, first served basis. During the sunrise there will […]
Read more >The .cn registry keeps making drastic decisions. Yesterday, January 6th 2010, the registry has decided they’ll no longer accept new .cn registrations from foreign registrars. Existing registrations can still easily be extended but new registrations are no longer possible. The reason for this drastic decision, are the difficulties that come up with new registrations. A […]
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