Pretty soon it will be possible to register names under the .eg domain. The Egyptian registry is releasing this toplevel domain. Allthough we don’t know all the restrictions for this extension yet, it is already very clear that registering a domain name under .eg will only be possible for some happy few. One of the […]
Read more >On May 1st, it will be possible again to register names under the .mx extension. The domain will be released in three phases. 1) The pre-registration period: This period starts May 1st 2009 and ends July 31st 2009 During this period the owners of a domain name under an Mexican extension (.com.mx, Org.mx, .net.mx,…) can […]
Read more >The .be registry (DNS.be) just registered the 900,000th .be name. It’s about the name artchaud.be. The name is linked to the website of a Belgian artist. ‘At the beginning of 2009, 860,000 names were registered, today 900,000. so that’s an average of a bit more than 10,000 names each month,’ says Hans Seeuws, spokesman of […]
Read more >In a previous post, we already said there was a conflict between the owner of facebook.nl and facebook.com. Facebook.com believed that the Dutchman, Mike Kolart, abused his domain name to create confusion and save money from ads. Kolart, however, denied this and said he had already registered the domain name before there was such a […]
Read more >Pretty soon there will be held two auctions for premium .me names. the first auction starts on April 23th and ends on April 29th. The second auction begins on May 14th and runs until May 20th. Everyone who wishes to do so, can bid on the names that are offered. Some examples of the offered […]
Read more >This afternoon at 2pm, the go-live fo the .co.nl extension begins. Everyone who wishes to do so, can register a name under this domain. There are no restrictions to register a name under this extension. Applications will be treated on a first come, first served basis.
Read more >Facebook is trying to take away the domain facebook.nl from the Dutch owner. ‘They don’t have the right,’ says the owner, who wishes to remain unknown, ‘I’ve already registered facebook.nl earlier than they did!’ It’s now up to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), to make a ruling. Mid 2008, Facebook already tried to buy the […]
Read more >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 […]
Read more >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. […]
Read more >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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