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 shouldn’t come as a surprise as this TLD was already introduced almost two decades ago. Read More…
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This post was written by Bart on October 3, 2011
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 Union will be allowed to register a .fr domain name. 
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 forbid direct .eu-registrars to warehouse domain names themselves, it was soon clear that these rules where easy to break. For example by setting up two entities, one that got accredited as .eu-registry and an other one that would be the warehousing client. 
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.
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 credit card information to be stolen or your computer to be infected by a virus. One of their efforts to achieve this was a deal with McAfee which would scan every single .xxx website on a daily basis for viruses and other security problems. Even before the official start of .xxx, it looks like ICM will not be able to create such a safe place. 
Today the third phase of the release of the 
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.
On July 20th 2010 the ‘go-live’ for .co domain names (Colombia) began. Now, after 1 year, records show that 66% of all names that were registered back then, were also renewed.