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.co.uk still preferred to .uk two years after launch

Old habits die hard. And that clearly is true for what people are used to in the domain name market. While 100’s of new extensions have been launched the past few years, most people stick to what they know. There is some clear proof of this with the .uk extension. This was launched two years […]

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Direct 2nd level registrations under .mt

NIC-malta, the registry managing the .mt domain name space, has announced that they plan to allow domain name registrations directly under the 2nd level for .mt in the near future (exact timing is not known yet). Currently only registrations on the 3rd level, under for example .com.mt and org.mt, are possible. The launch procedure would […]

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Monstrous ICANN policy nobody noticed to be on its way

Last year in September, ICANN announced new rules that would need to be applied to updating the information of the owner of a gTLD domain name. This includes the new gTLD’s, but also .com, .net, .org,….  Previously there were no rules at all regarding updates to the owner information of such a domain name. This […]

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.green lowering price premium names

The registry behind .green has decided to change the pricing of their premium domain names. Just like many other new gTLD’s, the .green registry had at the time of launch marked a large amount of domain names as “premium” names, with a premium price-tag. They now announced that 16000 of those premium domain names will […]

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EURid launches .ею

On June 1st EURid (the .eu-registry) has launched the .ею extension. This is the Cyrillic version of the .eu domain. Everyone who wishes to do so can register a name under this new extension. Names which contain Cyrillic characters can only be registered under this Cyrillic domain from now on and no longer under the […]

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DNS.PT wants data quality in Whois

DNS.PT (the .pt-registry) would like a qualitative Whois. So they want the data which are linked to .pt domain names are correct. That’s why they’ll start verifying the Whois-information at the beginning of June. 

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WordPress to run .blog

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 […]

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Lots of domain names to go off-line as CentralNic terminates 8 of their SLD’s

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 […]

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Direct registrations under .au expected soon

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” […]

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Release .store has started

One of the long expected extensions has started its release. On April 6th 2016, the sunrise for .store began.

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