ICANN is looking for a exclusive provider for a Trade Mark Clearinghouse service. This provider would basically retain a database of valid trade marks. Providers of new TLD’s which will launch in the coming years, will be required to offer a sunrise period of at least 30 days in which only holders of a valid […]
Read more >The Russian registry announced that the amount of registered .РФ domain names has just passed the milestone of 900.000 registrations. This new extension was introduced 11 months ago and is a Cyrillic representation of .ru. The “original” Latin-written version “.ru” still has almost 4 times as many domain names registered under it, but that probably […]
Read more >The .fr-registry (AFNIC) announced that, from December 6th onwards, the rules for registering a .fr domain name will be relaxed. At this point in time, you are required to either live in France or have a French Trade Mark before you can register a .fr domain name. With the new rules, anyone within the European […]
Read more >The .eu-registry has announced that they will be releasing almost 9.000 .eu domain names which where originally registered in bath faith during the .eu launch in 2006. A large amount of .eu domain names where originally registered in 2006 by domain name warehousers and cybersquatters. While the registry had rules in place that for example […]
Read more >Today the release of the .xxx domain finally begins. The release will start with a sunrise which will end on October 28th 2011. The sunrise consists out of 3 simultaneous phases.
Read more >Internet porn has a bad reputation of being a breeding ground for viruses and other insecurities. Next to a couple of other goals (like differentiating porn content from other content), the .xxx-registry “ICM” wanted to create a safe place on the internet that offered porn. A place where you wouldn’t need to worry about your […]
Read more >Today the third phase of the release of the .com.de-extension, the .de owner promotion phase, has begun. This phase will end on September 22nd.
Read more >A cybersquatter is being accused of hijacking the domain name of the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Martin McCann, the man who registered the name, doesn’t think he has done anything wrong.
Read more >ICM, the .xxx registry, has blocked approximately 15.000 .xxx names. These names won’t be available for registration once the release of this extension begins.
Read more >An anti-Kadafhi hacker successfully defaced the website of the .ly-registry. At the time of writing, the website of the registry looks like this:
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