Domain names

Will your domain name soon be the equivalent of your registered head office?

3 December 2014
Reading time: 2 min

If Minister De Croo manages to push through his plan, your e-mail address will equal your registered head office. So, make sure you have your own reliable domain by then...

Register your own name in .gent, .vlaanderen or .brussels now

25 November 2014
Reading time: 3 min

After the special period for companies and trademark owners, it is now the turn of Belgian citizens to have priority for registering their own name as a domain in .vlaanderen...

Coffee.club sold for $100,000!

20 November 2014
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New domains are doing really well. Here are a few facts and figures to prove that launching new domain extensions was a very good idea indeed! When ICANN announced its...

How can I pre-register a .VLAANDEREN, .BRUSSELS or .GENT?

29 October 2014
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The launch of the new Belgian gTLDs is about to happen! For .GENT, registration will be open to all starting November 17th, while for .VLAANDEREN and .BRUSSELS, the public will...

Attention à la fraude liée aux noms de domaines

Beware of domain name scams !

14 October 2014
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If you get a phone call from someone who tries to sell you a .com or .eu variation of the domain that you have registered in the .nl or .be...

Amazon may well have its .buy, but .amazon is probably not in the cards…

10 October 2014
Reading time: 4 min

Tough luck for Amazon: it will probably not get to be the operator of the new .amazon gTLD. There is one comfort though: it is not the only company that...

Pope Francis sets a good example with scholas.social!

2 October 2014
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A crowdfunding initiative – not for companies but for schools. And it was not launched on the Internet with a traditional gTLD: it went live with a new .social extension....

“People will soon be able to visit .gent websites” – Combell and .GENT in the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad

26 September 2014
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Register your .GENT domain name here>>> This fall, visiting www.tax.gent or www.facebook.gent will be possible, because Ghent has its own domain extension on the Internet. Yahoo, Twitter and Chanel already...

.GENT to be launched on 11/24/2014 as the first Belgian gTLD!

12 May 2014
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Finally: the long-awaited .GENT domain names will be available to the public at large as of 11/24/2014, after a launch phase that will start on 09/01/2014. The launch of .GENT...

No exclusivity for .APP, .BOOK or .BLOG… It was a close call!

13 November 2013
Reading time: 3 min

We’re safe now: highly desirable domain names such as .APP or .BOOK will not be seized by a few wealthy players who would have kept the gTLDs for themselves. Here’s...

Dossier: “New gTLDs, a new Internet?”

19 September 2013
Reading time: 8 min

The arrival of the many new generic Top-Level Domains is very profitable for ICANN. But are gTLDs also an asset for the entire Internet community? The new cataloguing system for...

Internet.org: domain investment still a lucrative business

5 September 2013
Reading time: 2 min

“Even with the imminent arrival of an avalanche of new possibilities to register domain names with all sorts of domain extensions, old winners like .com and .org are still very...

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