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E-commerce in Belgium: for both young and old

  • 26 February 2014
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The emergence of the Far East with the B2B trading platform Alibaba, the strong growth of online commerce in perfumery and gift items/flowers, and the limited number of people who...

The new gTLDs give a real identity, unlike the very neutral “COM”

  • 19 February 2014
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But there is no time to waste! The public at large is slowly becoming conscious of the revolution that is coming on the Internet: the more than 1,300 new generic...

Scotland finally has its own Top-Level Domain: .SCOT!

  • 18 February 2014
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Did you know that the new gTLDs are also a perfect way for independent regions that have no ccTLD of their own to define their territory anyway – albeit only...

From .APP to .ZONE: things are happening

  • 11 February 2014
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Now that an increasing number of new gTLDs are being launched online, ICANN made an infogram to explain how the rights of trademark owners are protected. New gTLDs are progressively...

Newest app Jelly chooses a .CO domain

  • 6 February 2014
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The newest venture of Twitter founder Biz Stone wants to adapt searches to our visual culture. Remarkably, you will not find the site on Jelly.com... When “serial entrepreneur” Biz Stone...

Did you run into a “spam trap” before?

  • 5 February 2014
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Spam busters sometimes try to sneak inactive or incorrect e-mail addresses onto mailing lists on purpose, in order to verify if the sender use best practices for mailings. How do...

The PHPBenelux Conference celebrates its fifth anniversary

  • 30 January 2014
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The PHPBenelux community organises its traditional annual conference in January and this year as well, no less than 450 people came to Antwerp. This is the fifth edition of the...

Strong brands put presentations in the Cloud with Audience

  • 29 January 2014
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Online presentation tools are becoming increasingly familiar, because of the co-creation or the strong visual effects they allow. Audience, a Belgian tool, chooses to put presentations in the Cloud for...

Another upgrade on AMS-IX due to huge success

  • 28 January 2014
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On 22 August 2013, we proudly published an article on our blog about the fact that we now have direct peerings with AMS-IX. Combell chose to directly link their own...

Domain names are an interesting investment alternative to stock market shares or Bitcoin

  • 23 January 2014
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In times of crisis, when savings accounts hardly give any return at all, many find solace with more volatile investments like stock market listed shares or even virtual coins like...

So far,82 new gTLDs have been delegated

  • 20 January 2014
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Soon, we will eat a .KIWI in .WIEN, and we will send an .EMAIL to the .CEO. We will invite our partner for a .COFFEE, and most importantly, we will...

Matt Cutts: it is best to keep French-speaking Belgium and France apart!

  • 15 January 2014
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No, this is not about community problems. Besides, what would Matt Cutts know about Belgium’s complex political situation? Google’s SEO guru referred to the importance of having different IP addresses...