Domain names

Over 1.5 million .it domain names

30 July 2008
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The registration bureau for .it domains reports that over a million and a half .it domain names are registered. This extension belongs to Italy, but it is also very much...

The Flemish Government wants .vla domain names

30 July 2008
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At the request of Mark Demesmaeker (NVA), Kris Peeters, the Minister-President of Flanders corroborated that there was interest to constitute a .vla domain extension. Recently, ICANN’s rules have indeed been...

Why local domain names are important

23 July 2008
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The actual domain name that you choose is becoming increasingly important to obtain a good ranking among search engine results. The most important selection criterion used to be that a...

3,000,000 .nl domain names

15 July 2008
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Friday, the 3 millionth .nl domain name has been registered. This was somewhat earlier than anticipated, since the SIDN didn’t expect this to happen before August. The first .nl domain...

Domains are attractive investments

12 July 2008
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It appears that investing in domain names is getting increasingly lucrative. Good domain names are indeed rare and many entrepreneurs would pay a fair amount of money to acquire such...

A quarantine for .nl domain names

10 July 2008
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SIDN, the managing entity for the .nl domain has decided to impose a quarantine for .nl domain names. Concretely, this means that a .nl domain name will stay blocked for...

As from now, .pro domains (.law.pro, .med.pro, etc.) are open to all professionals

4 July 2008
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As from the 8th of September .pro TLDs (which used to be restricted to accountants, engineers, lawyers and medical practitioners from certain countries – namely Canada, the US, Germany and...

Create your own domain extension

30 June 2008
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Yesterday, in Paris, ICANN (the manager of Top Level domain names) has decided to facilitate the launch of new extensions. A domain name extension is for instance .be, .nl or...

The number of domain names keeps on rising

25 June 2008
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According to numbers provided by VeriSign (the company that manages the top-level domains .com and .net), during the first quarter of 2008, over 14 million new domain names were registered...

.car domain names probably to be expected soon

25 June 2008
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Now that several car constructors want to introduce full Internet access in cars, there’s much ado about creating a new domain: .car. This domain suffix would allow websites that are...

Over 80.000 .lt domain names

20 June 2008
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The registry for .lt domains (Lithuania) announced that there are now 80,000 .lt domain names, which is very little compared to the 800,000 .be names and the almost 3 million...

.hk is among the most risky domains

14 June 2008
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Internet too has its risky places that people shouldn't visit without taking the necessary precautions. McAfee has identified these places and apparently, among ccTLDs (country code top-level domains), domains from...

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