Domain names

One million .FR domain names

  • 11 February 2008
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On January 11th, the millionth .fr domain name has been registered. Not an impressive number if one considers the total population of France. Numerous European countries with a similar total...

.asia domain names are a huge success

  • 11 February 2008
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During the sunrise period for .asia, no less than 30,000 domain names have been registered. The landrush (registration period open to the public) has been scheduled for February 20th. Do...

Typo-piracy: the main victims are children

  • 11 February 2008
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There are numerous good reasons to register the most possible variants of your domain name. One of them is a phenomenon called “typo-piracy”. A Dutch parents association has established that...

Domain name trading is still a very lucrative business

  • 5 February 2008
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According to SEDO, the largest domain name intermediary worldwide, 2007 has been a top shelf year for domain name sales. SEDO sold for over 72 million dollars, which represents an...

The number of .be domain names reaches a new record

  • 5 February 2008
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In 2007, 193.648 new .be domain names have been registered. This represents over 46.000 paying registrations in comparison with 2006, that is to say a growth of over 30%. Other...

No extra security measures for .be

  • 5 February 2008
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The manager of the .be domain names, DNS.BE, took part in the commission Infrastructure for ICT security. DNS.BE is often criticized for not taking enough measures against phishing. Some crooks...

.eu IDNs?

  • 4 February 2008
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In the future, EURid, the registry of the .EU domain would like to start offering domain names with non-ASCII characters like é, ç, à, etc. All domain name holders are...

Domain names for advertising campaigns: more is better

  • 31 January 2008
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Now that Internet has become a customary medium to support advertising campaigns, an increasing number of companies couple a more or less temporary domain name to their offers. Indeed, it...

.lu domain names temporarily priced at only € 25

  • 4 November 2007
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Given the large amount of .lu domain names that COMBELL manages for its clients, from now on you'll benefit from sharper prices to register your Luxembourgian domain name. Temporarily, you'll...