NIC.ar is considering to allow registrations under the second level extension .ar. They follow, among others, Nominet who made .uk domain names available for registration.
Last week the domain name voice.com was sold by MicroStrategy Incorporated for as many as 30 million dollars, fully paid in cash. This transaction is considered by DNJournal as the largest domain name sale this year and even the largest known domain name sale ever, paid for in cash.
EURid, the .eu registry, is launching the .ευ extension. Nowadays everyone knows the .eu extension, the extension that shows your European roots. Within the European Union, we don’t only have different languages, we also have different writings. After the .eu launch, the Cyrillic writing .ею followed. Soon however, also the Greek .ευ will follow.
The .ie registry decided to release three special domain names. These domaine were previously restricted because they match other top-level domain name extensions. The three domains are …
The Thai registry has decided to allow registrations under.th directly. Before you could only register domain names under .co.th and .in.th but that has changed and registrations under .th directly are also an option.
The Austrian registry will soon be releasing the domain names, existing from only 1 or 2 characters. This was already possible for many years at .co.at and .or.at, but soon will be available for .at as well!
Since 14 June 206 you can now opt for IDN characters in your Uruguayan domain name. NIC.uy is adding the Spanish IDN characters to the allowed characters for .uy, these are: á, é, í, ó, ú, ü and ñ.
.pro is a well known extension on the internet. The .pro registry places .pro on the market as the extension that reflects your professionalism. It is the best known abbreviation in many different languages that specifies professionals.
For years you could only register domain names under .co.bw, .ac.bw, .org.bw and .net.bw, until recently the government of Botswana decided to re-release .bw.
With is sub-tropical climate and located in the middle of southern Africa, Botswana is one of the richest countries of southern Africa, caused by the mining of minerals. It is the least corrupt country of the African continent and they have one of the most advanced African competitive banking systems.
In the second quarter of 2015, donuts registry will allow 2-character domain names for all their extensions.