On February 20th 2012 the landrush for .jp.net domain began. This landrush will end on March 16th 2012. During this landrush everyone who wishes to do so, can register a domain name under the .jp.net extension. Moreover it’s also possible to register 1 and 2 character domains.
Read more >The Serbian registry now offers the IDN extension .срб (.serbia). Everyone who already owns a .rs name can register this name under the new IDN extension for free until mid June.
Read more >ICANN, the umbrella organisation for gTLD’s, just published the numbers of the last quarter of 2011. These show that on October 31st 2011 100.540.971 .names were registered under the .com extension. In October 2011 alone, 690.243 new names were registered under this extension.
Read more >Afnic (.fr registry) considers to start offering IDN domain names. IDN names, Internationalised Domain Names, are names which also contain non-Latin characters such as é, è, î,…
Read more >In 2011 the news was announced that ICANN has given the green light for applications of an own gTLD. This allows you to apply for your own extension such as for instance .paris, .london, .hotel, .mail… ICANN has now put the next step by opening a website via which you can effectively submit your application. […]
Read more >The .be registry has carried out a survey to dropcatching within the .be domain. Dropcatching is the re-registering of an expired domain name the second that domain name becomes available for registration. The most striking result was that dropcatching of .be domain names is rising rapidly. While in 2009 and 2010 less than 5% of […]
Read more >ICM (.xxx registry) has recently blocked some .xxx names which were registered by cybersquatters rather unexpectedly. Question is whether this action is as positive as it was meant by the registry and whether the registry didn’t cause confusion by doing this.
Read more >EURid (.eu registry) has made a proposal to change the transfer and trade procedure for a .eu name during 2012. The aim would be to replace the current procedure with a quicker procedure that is also more in line to standard transfer procedures of other TLD’s.
Read more >The .xxx-General Availability has been delayed for at least one hour because of a technical issue at the .xxx-registry. During a last-minute check, an amount of domain names that was actually requested during the sunrise or landrush was still being shown as available in the registry system while they should not be available for registration. […]
Read more >Today the .fr registry didn’t just relax the rules for .fr registrations, they also released some other extensions which they manage: .re, .yt, .pm, .wf and .tf. As from today everyone who has an address within the European Union can register a name under one of those extensions.
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