Domain names

.tel me if you need me

  • 24 November 2008
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.tel domain names will soon be available. A .tel domain is your unique contact point on the Internet that contains all your contact information, such as your address, your phone...

The .health will soon be in Belgian hands?

  • 14 November 2008
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At the ICANN meeting in Cairo, ISOC Belgium again stood up for the .health extension dossier. This extension has a twofold purpose. On one hand, it would be used for...

Domain names from Slovenia (.si) have been liberalized

  • 4 November 2008
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As from the 6th of November, Slovenian domain names will be completely liberalized. Concretely, this means that anyone in the world will be able to register several .si domain names....

Flanders wants .vla domain names

  • 24 October 2008
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Yesterday, the Flemish minister-president Kris Peeters has confirmed to Mark Demesmaeker (NVA) that the Flemish Government will carry on with its plan to request a personalized extension for Flanders. The...

Pizza Hut changing its name to Pasta Hut causes great turmoil

  • 18 October 2008
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In order to attract more attention to its pasta range, Pizza Hut recently decided to rebrand 8 of its establishments in the UK to Pasta Hut. 100 million £ have...

An increasing demand for .eu domain names

  • 22 September 2008
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EurID, the .eu registry, has reported an increase in the number of requests for .eu domain names. Currently, there are a total of 2.8 million .eu registrations. Germany owns the...

Landrush .tel domain names

  • 21 September 2008
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Click here to register your .tel domain name. The registry of the .tel announced the launch information for the .tel domain names. Concretely, these domain names contain “business cards” that...

Cybersquatters exploit hurricanes in America

  • 5 September 2008
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SANS Internet Storm Center noticed that, the past few days, numerous domain names have been registered containing Gustav and Hanna, often completed by the words “help” or “foundation”. These 4...

A Dutch company buys printer.com for no less than 800,000 $

  • 27 August 2008
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The prices of generic domain names are still on the rise. This week, the Dutch IT company Treasuron purchased the domain name printer.com for an astounding 800,000 $. On September...

Knol.com suddenly worth a lot of money

  • 25 August 2008
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You should be so lucky as to be the owner of the domain knol.com, on the glorious day that Google decides to launch an encyclopaedia (comparable to Wikipedia) that will...

International domain names on the world map

  • 14 August 2008
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Bytelevel has launched a very original world map on the market. Indeed, the map shows all 260 national domain extensions. Each country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is represented according to...

Over 100,000 .me domain names have been registered

  • 12 August 2008
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Barely 2 weeks after the launch of the extension, 100,000 .me domain names have already been registered. This domain extension belongs to Montenegro, which has recently regained its independence, but...