Domain names

Almost 4 million .EU domain names

  • 25 July 2013
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While the percentage of .EU domains per country is constantly increasing, the number of IDNs is also growing. Here’s an overview of the key figures… In a unified Europe, it...

The .gent domain extension will see the light of day in 2014

  • 20 December 2012
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Combell will soon be in charge of the management of the .gent domain extension, with the support of the city of Ghent. This means that domain names such as www.gravensteen.gent,...

A wave of domain scams from China

  • 27 April 2012
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Perhaps you too received an e-mail in your mailbox from a registration company from China claiming that they care about your well-being, but also that there is a problem? The...

.xxx domain names available soon

  • 28 June 2010
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Friday, in Brussels, the ICANN, the non-profit organisation that manages top level domains such as .com and .info worldwide, decided that .xxx would be launched soon. This extension is exclusively...

Combell wins the “Best Belgian Performer 2009” award

  • 25 June 2010
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Thursday, Combell received the “Best Belgian Performer 2009” award from DNS.be. This award is given by the .be registry to the agent with the largest number of new .be domain...

.com celebrates its 25th anniversary

  • 29 March 2010
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On March 15, 1985, Symbolics Computers registered symbolics.com, the very first domain name in the world. Later that same year, 5 other companies registered a domain name. Back then, domain...

Dutch hero lost his domain name

  • 11 January 2010
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On the Internet, everything goes fast. Only one hour after it was publicly announced that the Dutch Jasper Schuringa avoided an attack on a plane in the US, an American...

Café.eu, garçon.eu and tête-à-tête.eu, available soon

  • 31 October 2009
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On December 10 2009, the landrush for .eu domain names with international characters such as é, ^, ç, etc. will start. These domains, referred to as IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)...

600.000 Belgian websites on the net

  • 23 September 2009
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DNS.be, the organization that manages the .be domain name, has completed a study which reveals the number of websites that are linked to the registered .be domain names. And that...

.tel, now also on your iPhone and in Outlook

  • 30 July 2009
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On a .tel domain name , you can put all your contact information. Check out www.combell.tel, for instance. At any time, you can indicate which contact method is the best...

The owner of facebook.nl lost his domain name

  • 21 July 2009
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In April, we already informed you through our weblog that it was possible that the owner of facebook.nl may have to give up his domain name. What is striking is...

The number of domain names strongly increased

  • 30 June 2009
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Even though we are going through recession, people still trust in e-commerce. This is what is revealed by the figures provided by Verisign: in the 1st quarter of 2009, the...