Today the third phase of the release of the .com.de-extension, the .de owner promotion phase, has begun. This phase will end on September 22nd.
Read more >A cybersquatter is being accused of hijacking the domain name of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Martin McCann, the man who registered the name, doesn’t think he has done anything wrong.
Read more >ICM, the .xxx registry, has blocked approximately 15.000 .xxx names. These names won’t be available for registration once the release of this extension begins.
Read more >An anti-Kadafhi hacker successfully defaced the website of the .ly-registry. At the time of writing, the website of the registry looks like this:
Read more >On July 20th 2010 the ‘go-live’ for .co domain names (Colombia) began. Now, after 1 year, records show that 66% of all names that were registered back then, were also renewed.
Read more >It is now official: .ss will become the future domain name extension of South Sudan. Almost instantly after South Sudan became an independent state, on July 9th 2010, they requested to be appointed their own proper country code top level domain. This has now been officially allocated to them.
Read more >Today, the first .xxx website has gone love. casting.xxx is the first porn website which uses this new extension.
Read more >A while ago we already posted an article that ICANN had seriously warned the .jobs registry. The registry got this warning because, according to ICANN, they had set up a partnership via which the registry violated the rules of their own policy.
Read more >During the previous weekend, all websites and other services ending in .gb.com went off-line. The extension .gb.com isn’t a real “top level domain” like fore example .be or .co.uk. It actually is the owner of the domain name “gb.com” who is selling subdomains under his domain name. And it now turns out that ownership of […]
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