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A free web shop with every COMBELL hosting

  • 30 July 2008
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We have recently started to offer a free ready-to-use web shop with every hosting package. In just a few mouse clicks, you have a complete web shop including a management...

Over 1.5 million .it domain names

  • 30 July 2008
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The registration bureau for .it domains reports that over a million and a half .it domain names are registered. This extension belongs to Italy, but it is also very much...

The Flemish Government wants .vla domain names

  • 30 July 2008
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At the request of Mark Demesmaeker (NVA), Kris Peeters, the Minister-President of Flanders corroborated that there was interest to constitute a .vla domain extension. Recently, ICANN’s rules have indeed been...

Why local domain names are important

  • 23 July 2008
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The actual domain name that you choose is becoming increasingly important to obtain a good ranking among search engine results. The most important selection criterion used to be that a...

Hosted Exchange on your iPhone

  • 16 July 2008
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The new popular iPhone 3G comes with standard support for Exchange Server. This means that with a Microsoft Exchange server, you can constantly synchronise your e-mail, your contacts, your agenda...

3,000,000 .nl domain names

  • 15 July 2008
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Friday, the 3 millionth .nl domain name has been registered. This was somewhat earlier than anticipated, since the SIDN didn’t expect this to happen before August. The first .nl domain...

Domains are attractive investments

  • 12 July 2008
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It appears that investing in domain names is getting increasingly lucrative. Good domain names are indeed rare and many entrepreneurs would pay a fair amount of money to acquire such...

Frustrated customers are bad for a web shop’s reputation

  • 11 July 2008
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A recent study organised by Opinion Research Corporation has shown that web shoppers are subject to quite a few frustrations. What bothers them the most is that the purchased articles...

Google indexes Adobe Flash sites

  • 10 July 2008
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As from July 1st, Google’s search bots can also read Flash files. Those are moving images created with Adobe Flash. Up till recently, this was impossible and extra codes had...

A quarantine for .nl domain names

  • 10 July 2008
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SIDN, the managing entity for the .nl domain has decided to impose a quarantine for .nl domain names. Concretely, this means that a .nl domain name will stay blocked for...

The economic recession popularizes online discount vouchers

  • 7 July 2008
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The fact that the economic recession forces citizens to save is also noticeable on the Internet. Early June, according to figures published by the American company Hitwise, visits on websites...

As from now, .pro domains (.law.pro, .med.pro, etc.) are open to all professionals

  • 4 July 2008
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As from the 8th of September .pro TLDs (which used to be restricted to accountants, engineers, lawyers and medical practitioners from certain countries – namely Canada, the US, Germany and...