Fadi Chehade, ICANN’s CEO, has announced that on April 23rd 2013 the first new gTLD’s will be approved. After months of waiting, there’s now a first concrete date regarding those new extensions.
Read more >When the Pope announced earlier this week that he would resign, the domain name market reacted quickly at this news. We saw a rush on domain names which contain the word ‘pope’.
Read more >The sunrise of the new extension .pw has just been extended by a week. .pw is the official extension of Palau but can also be used as abbreviation for professional web. Like that it’s a nice extra to put your professionalism and online expertise in the spotlight.
Read more >At the moment ICANN is evaluating all applications which were filed for the management of a new gTLD. Although not a single application has already been approved, there are already several problems. Critical questions arise about the filed applications.
Read more >Slowly but surely more information is revealed about which procedures will need to be followed by registering a domain name under the new generic extensions (gTLD’s). If you own a trademark and you wish to protect this mark under a new extension, the TM Clearing House will play an important role.
Read more >In December 2012 Afnic (.fr-registry) conducted a survey of all registered .fr domain names. This study revealed some surprising results. It showed which words were the most popular by registering .fr domains, which characters appear the most in IDN names and how many characters an average .fr domain contains.
Read more >On Wednesday November 21st 2012 Eurid (.eu registry) introduces a new procedure for the transfer and owner change of .eu domain names. Currently a transfer or trade has to be confirmed via email by the owner will disappear. Due to the new procedure there will no longer be a difference between a transfer (move the […]
Read more >Currently Nominet (.uk registry) is holding a survey among its registrars to determine how much interest there is for the implementation of the .uk domain. Nominet manages the registrations under the .co.uk, .org.uk and .net.uk domain but is now considering to offer the possibility to register domain names directly under .uk.
Read more >Earlier this week a new TLD was launched, but it seems hardly anybody noticed. The “Universal Postal Union” had requested the TLD “.post” in 2003. It took about 6 years to get approved and another 3 years before it now actually (sort of) launched.
Read more >Our correspondent in Uruguay has informed us that the .uy-registry will most probably announce the release of registrations directly under .uy within the coming days or weeks. Because this is not official yet, an exact launch date isn’t know yet.
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