Lately there have been rumours about the liberalisation of the .al extension (Albania). Read More…
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This post was written by lieve on May 14, 2013
.al liberalised?
2012 was a great year for .be
Today DNS.be (.be registry) published a press release showing that 2012 was a great year for .be registrations.
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This post was written by lieve on April 23, 2013
Harvard registers .xxx
A while ago the univerity of Harvard registered the domain name harvard.xxx
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This post was written by lieve on April 19, 2013
Google buys yt.be domain
Google recently bought the domain name yt.be. This domain will be used by Google as an URL shortener for YouTube, Google’s own video service.
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This post was written by lieve on April 11, 2013
TradeMark ClearingHouse about to perform a test run
TradeMark ClearingHouse (TMCH), the party via which trademark holders need to file an application first if they wish to register a name during a sunrise phase of a new gTLD, is about to perform a test run.
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This post was written by lieve on April 10, 2013
Trade Mark Clearing House opens his doors
On Tuesday March 26th 2013 Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) has opened its doors. From now on owners of a registered trademark can file an application for this trademark at TMCH.
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This post was written by lieve on March 27, 2013
New pope gets domain name as a gift
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since March 13th 2013, the 266th pope and the first pope named Francis has been offered his first high profile tech gift, his own domain name.
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This post was written by lieve on March 20, 2013
Personal dispute jeopardizes all .gd, .tc and .vg domain names
Grenada (.gd), Turks en Caicos Islands (.tc) and British virgin islands (.vg) with a combined population of only about 170.000 people, have all trusted the management of their top level domain into the hands of the English company AdamsNames Ltd. A personal dispute at the top of AdamsNames Ltd is now putting all domain names under .gd, .tc and .vg at risk.
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This post was written by Bart on March 13, 2013
Registrations directly under .uk not for the near future
As we reported earlier, last October Nominet (the .uk-registry) was contemplating opening up for registrations directly under .uk. For now, only registrations on the third level (like under .co.uk or .org.uk) are possible. They received lots of feedback on this idea and now have to conclude that just opening up the second level wouldn’t be that straight-forward.
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This post was written by admin on February 28, 2013
ICANN only finds 4 gTLD requests too similar
First the not so surprising news: ICANN today officially found “hotels” too similar to “hoteis” (which means “hotels” in Portuguese) and they found “unicorn” too similar to “unicom”.
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This post was written by admin on February 27, 2013
