Obviously a .FR name targets only the French market so you may dismiss it as not worth a lot of money. However credit.fr just sold for 587,500 euros, that is a bit less than 900,000 US dollars. Noone can say … Read More
Category Archives: TLDs, ccTLDs, gTLDs
DNS-Luxembourg Announces The Opening of IDNS
As of February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) .lu will be possible. Acceptable special characters are those commonly used in Luxembourg, … Read More
VeriSign to Raise .COM & .NET Prices
VeriSign has recently announced that they will be raising .COM and .NET annual fees as of July 1st, 2010. ICANN has an agreement that VeriSign is allowed to raise their .COM fees by up to 7% per year. VeriSign took … Read More
Paris wants a .paris
Paris, the capital city of France, applied for .paris to become a top level domain (TLD) in June, 2008. The TLD for France is .fr. The Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, began a campaign on behalf of Paris, on December … Read More
Google gets into the URL-shrinking biz with Goo.gl
Google ventured into new territory this week with the launch of a new URL-shortening service it’s calling Goo.gl. Unlike some existing and high-profile shorteners such as TinyURL and Bit.ly, Goo.gl is not a general-purpose link shrinker that users can access … Read More
A new domain extension
The Dominican Republic has decided to open up its domain name extension: .DO . Since the 10th of December 2009, this extension is open to everyone with absolutely no restriction. Up till now, Dominican businesses had to register their name … Read More
Announcement Regarding Implementation of Modification to Implementation Rules for UDRP
The ICANN Board approved a modification to the Implementation Rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“Rules”). The modified Rules now require UDRP claimants and respondents to provide documents to UDRP Providers in electronic form. The modified Rules … Read More
China to apply for .?? ‘Zhongguo’ domain name
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) today will apply for the top-level Chinese domain name “Zhongguo”(written in pinyin), to key Internet oversight agency the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), www.people.com.cn reported Global netizens may be able to … Read More
Egypt launches Arabic web domain
Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said. Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”. “It is a great moment for … Read More
IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch
16 November 2009, ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Track Process. Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own lanuage. The Internet Corportation for Assigned … Read More
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