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Sunrise .net.br starts today

A while ago, the .br registry (Brasil) announced the launch of the .net.br domain. Today the sunrise for this extension started. The sunrise will last for 6 months. During this period, everyone who owns a .com.br name, can register this name under the .net.br extension. There’s only one condition, the .com.br name needs to be […]

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Servers of UltraDNS attacked

Tuesday morning, around 8am, some servers of UltraDNS had serious problems. Some of their nameservers didn’t react anymore or answered very slowly. Because of this some of their customers also had serious problems. And UltraDNS does have, some important customers such as the .nu registry and Amazon.com. Besides they’re also the .biz and .us registry. […]

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Porn.ie and pornography.ie not allowed

Steve Ryan has been trying to register the names porn.ie and pornography.ie for nearly 4 years. His requests were always turned down by IEDR (the .ie registry). They say they won’t register those names because they are offensive. Ryan didn’t agree on this. He and his lawyer wrote several letters, in which he referred to […]

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Already 100,000 .tel names registered

Last week, the go-live for the .tel extension started. From then on, everyone who wishes to do so, can register a name under this domain. Only 36 hours after the launch of the go-live, 100,000 .tel names were registered. As mentioned before, a .tel name offers you the possibility to centralize all your contact information […]

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New extension: .net.br

The Brazilian registry has announced the release of the .net.br extension. In order to guarantee a smooth launch, there will be a 6 month sunrise period. During this period, owners of  a .com.br name can register this name under the .net.br extension. There’s one restriction, the .com.br name needs to be registered before April 6th […]

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DNS.be takes measures against Conficker virus

The .be registry (DNS.be) has already given more information about the actions and measures they’re taking to combat the Conficker C virus. Currently they’re checking every .be name that could be generated by the virus. If one of those names is already registered, they sent an e-mail to the .be registrar who registered those names […]

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Registries take measures against Conficker C virus

Several registries are taking measures against the Conficker C virus. The virus is programmed so that it will try to contact his creator through constantly changing domain names under 110 ccTLD’s (country code Top Level Domains). With the previous version of the virus we were talking about 250 domain names per day, with new C […]

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Go-live .tel starts tomorrow

The go-live period of .tel names starts tomorrow. From then on, anyone who wishes to do so, can register a name under this extension. During the go-live, names need to be registered for at least one year and the first come, first served principle will be applied. A .tel name offers you the chance to […]

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More complaints about cybersquatting

A while ago, we already posted an article on this site about the new policy the .be registry introduced against cybersquatting. This seems to be really necessary because cybersquatting is becoming a fast growing problem. In 2008 WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) received 8% more complaints about cybersquatting compared to 2007.  Cybersquatting means that someone […]

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Landrush .co.nl starts tomorrow

Tomorrow the landrush for the .co.nl starts. This period ends on March 31st. During this period, everyone who wishes to do so, can register a .co.nl name. During this period, applications will be treated on a best place, first served basis. This means that the application that appears first on our list, will also be […]

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