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September 23, 2021News

.fr celebrates 35th birthday

The .fr extension (France) is blowing out 35 candles today. Currently (September 2021) there are 3.82 million names registered under the .fr domain. On September 2, 1986, .fr took its first steps. At the time, this extension was mainly used by academics. In 1997, Afnic (.fr registry) was created to manage the .fr extension. From […]

August 30, 2021News

.zuerich has taken off

The release for .zuerich domain names has started. As of today, holders of a registered trademark which has been applied at the TMCH can register their naan under the .zuerich domain. This first phase, the so-called sunrise, will run until 29/10/2021. On November 22, the Early Access Period (EAP) starts for a period of 10 […]

August 24, 2021News

Registrations under .au possible from March 2022

The Australian registry has announced that they will allow direct registrations under .au from March 24 2022. Until now, only third level registrations are possible (.com.au, .net.au, .org.au) but that will change from March 2022. With the release of the .au domain, Australia is following the lead of the UK and New Zealand, among others, […]

June 3, 2021News

EURid celebrates 5 years of .ею extension

The .ею extension, the Cyrillic version of the .eu domain, is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Over the past five years, .ею 1,369 names have been registered, representing approximately 5% of the internationalised domain names (IDN) in EURid’s (.eu registry) portfolio. The .ею extension appears to be the most popular in Bulgaria, with 51% of registered […]

May 21, 2021News

How a domain name got Freenode into trouble

A few days ago, a quarrel at Freenode made it clear once again how important the management of a domain name is. After all, it was the owner of the domain name who got Freenode into serious trouble. Freenode, an online platform for open source, was caught in a storm a few days ago. The […]

May 20, 2021News

Changes to validation policies certificates

The CA / B Forum (Certificate and Browser forum) has decided that the rules for validating an SSL certificate will change in the course of 2021. If you now request an SSL certificate for your website, the validation can be done in 3 ways: via email via DNS by placing a file on your website […]

May 11, 2021News, Tips & Tricks

Rules for AdultBlock and AdultBlock+ a bit more flexible now

Last year we reported that Minds & Machines, the registry for .xxx, .adult,… introduced the AdultBlock and AdultBlock+. The AdultBlock and AdultBlock+ offer you the possibility to protect your name under .xxx, .porn, .adult and .sex and thus avoid unpleasant surprises. However, you did have to meet a number of conditions to activate an AdultBlock […]

April 30, 2021News

Dark shadow over release .spa domain

The release of the .spa domain is overshadowed by arguments and lawsuits. Anything but relax! NameSphere, who together with Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council Limited, manage the .spa domain has long been in a conflict with DotPH (the Philippine registry). NameSphere was founded in 2012 by Edmon Chung from dotAsia to invest in new […]

April 22, 2021News

Relax with a .spa domain name

A day of relaxation, wellness, sauna, massage, everyone can enjoy it from time to time. So an own extension for the wellness industry isn’t that crazy. And the .spa domain was born. However, the .spa extension is not limited to just wellness. Also residents and companies from Spa and companies under the Italian company form […]

March 18, 2021News

All you need is .love

Love, numerous songs have been sung about it, books and poems have been written about it, films have been made about it, research has been done and lots of discussions have taken place about it. A .love extension was inevitable. Registering a .love domain name has been possible for a while, but now the registry also […]