The .blog TLD had been requested by 9 registries, amongst them big names like Google, Donuts, Minds and Machines and Afilias. To determine who would be allowed to actually run this TLD, an auction was held last February. The company with the winning bid was “Primer Nival S.A.” from Panama. A company nobody had heard […]
Read more >For about two decades CentralNic has been known as the registry operator of alternative extensions like .eu.com, .gb.net or uk.net. Since the launch of the new gTLD’s, CentralNic jumped also on that bandwagon and now is one of the larger back-end providers for such new gTLD’s. Apparently they have decided to focus only on the […]
Read more >Currently domain names under the Australian TLD .au can only be registered on the so called 3’d level. Such a domain name then ends in for example .com.au, .net.au or .id.au. The Australian registry has now officially declared that they will allow direct .au registration in the foreseeable future. Recently also the UK dropped “.co” […]
Read more >We have received several reports from clients who had received an e-mail claiming their domain name to be suspended. It looks like not just our clients are being targeted, as we are seeing other registrars sending out similar warnings. The e-mail seems to come from the abuse contact in the public whois of your domain […]
Read more >The Norwegian registrar NORID is, besides .no, also responsible for the domain name extension .bv (Bouvet Island). Despite the fact that Bouvet Island has zero inhabitants, it still has its own country code and thus also its own top level domain. From Norway, there is however no interest in registering .bv domain names (simply because […]
Read more >Until recently, a .hr domain name registration was only possible for Croatian companies (with a maximum of 10 domain names per company). This rule has now been relaxed, to include all VAT-liable European companies. There however still is a limit of 10 domain names maximum per company. No further special restriction apply, so any available […]
Read more >Since yesterday, direct registrations under .uk have become possible. Before that time, English domain names where located at the third-level, under for .co.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk and .org.uk. Nominet, the registry that manages the .uk namespace, has announced that within the first 24 hours already 50.000 domain names had been registered under .uk. This by far […]
Read more >Since people asked: our servers were not vulnerable for the OpenSSL “heartbleed” bug. Not that this is our merit. Even some of the big ones like Google and Yahoo were affected. Quickly after the news about this bug became public we checked our servers and we just happened to be using versions of OpenSSL on […]
Read more >The launches of new gTLD’s are slowly getting up to speed. For already 50 new domain name extensions the sunrise has started or will start soon. Most of these extensions are managed by the registry operator Donuts and are very generic English terms like .bike or .clothing. They try to appeal to as wide an […]
Read more >The .uk-registry (Nominet) has announced that they will start allowing direct registrations under .uk mid 2014. Now only registration under second levels like .co.uk and .org.uk are possible. As can be seen in our previous posts on this subject, there has been lots of discussion about this. During the two consultation rounds which where held […]
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