Domain names

Mobile websites are getting more popular by the day

  • 27 May 2009
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According to a recent study conducted by Universal McCann, smartphones are becoming an important instrument in commerce via the Internet. People who use smartphones such as an iPhone, a BlackBerry...

Combell is the largest .be domain name agent in the Benelux

  • 9 May 2009
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Once again, this year, Combell is the number 1 agent in .be domain names in the Benelux. DNS.BE, the organization that manages the .be extension, published a list featuring the...

The owners of Twitter.nl and Facebook.nl may very well lose their domain name

  • 9 May 2009
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About 5 years ago, Saskia registered the domain name twitter.nl. Back then, Twitter.com, one of the 30 most visited websites in the world, did not exist yet. It is however...

Domain names are immune to the crisis

  • 12 March 2009
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VeriSign announced that in 2008, 24 million new domain names have been registered worldwide. By the end of December, there was a total of 177 million domain names among TLDs,...

Belgique.com was sold for 25,000 euros

  • 10 March 2009
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The fact that geodomains (top level domains composed of geographic entities) are very popular is again proved by a number of sales made through the online marketplace Sedo.com. Last month,...

Toys.com sold for 1.2 million $

  • 20 February 2009
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Domain name trading remains a flourishing business. This week, toys.com sold for 1.2 million $. Last week, fly.com got a new owner for 1.4 million $. The owner of those...

17% more .be in 2008

  • 24 January 2009
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DNS BE, the official authority that manages .be domain names, has announced that in 2008, the number of .be domain names has achieved a growth that was less fast than...

500,000 .cz domain names

  • 9 January 2009
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A new milestone of half a million .cz (Czech Republic) domain names has been reached. The registration of these Czech domain names has been simplified since October 2007. As a...

New domain extensions: maybe not for tomorrow

  • 5 January 2009
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As mentioned previously , ICANN intends to relax rules on personalized domain extensions as from the second quarter of 2009. That means that the registration of .nike or .brussels will...

DNS.be takes on cybersquatting

  • 22 December 2008
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.be domain names can be registered very quickly, but according to DNS.be, that does not mean that other users’ rights can be infringed. Until recently, those who were of opinion...

Domain name for contact information .tel successfully launched

  • 12 December 2008
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.tel domain names are an online business card with all your contact information. On December 3rd, the first registration phase has started and will run until February 2nd. In this...

No tête-à-tête.be, café.be or déjà-vu.be for Belgian domain names

  • 4 December 2008
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DNS.be, the organization that manages .be domain names, has finally decided not to allow the use of special characters in .be domain names. It had however been recently decided to...