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22/11/10

A free .be for every company

You may have heard it already on the radio or on the TV: more than 50% of SMEs and self-employed workers have not registered their .be domain name yet. Combell wants to help in this context and gives every company a free domain name for one year. Do you have a VAT number? In that case, register your free .be domain name of your choice before 31 December 2010.

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28/06/10

.xxx domain names available soon.

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 reserved for adult websites. 3 years earlier, the ICANN still denied the request. During the Public Forum, this question was hotly debated and created much lobbying. Now, the ICANN will carefully audit ICM Registry, the company that wants to manage the triple X extension, from a financial and technical point of view

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25/03/10

.com celebrates its 25th anniversary

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

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01/03/10

1,000,000 .be domain names

In 2009, .be celebrated its 20th anniversary. At the beginning of this year, the millionth .be domain name was registered. The Belgian extension remains popular. In 2009, for the sixth year in a row, the number of new .be reached a new record peak (232,746). That is 4.4% more new registrations than in 2008

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19/10/09

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

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) allow the use of non-Latin characters in domain names.

Attention! There is no sunrise period. From December 10, anyone (European company or individual) can register a .eu IDN.
Do not wait any longer and check out our domain name special on .eu IDNs. Take your chance and make your choice among thousands of new .eu combinations!

Register a .eu IDN

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20/09/09

1.5 million .fr domain names

On the 10th of September, the 1.5 millionth .fr domain name has been registered for a band (lessecouesduvocal.fr). In 2002, there were merely 100,000 .fr domain names. Previous milestones were 500,000 .fr domains in July 2006 and 1 million in January 2008

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08/09/09

One-character .biz domains put up for auction

Neustar, that manages the .biz domains, will hold a unique auction in collaboration with SEDO . From September 23rd, noon, 31 .biz domain names will be put up for auction , such as 1.biz or W.biz. We are curious to follow the auctions for these domain names. To be continued…

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18/08/09

600.000 Belgian websites on the net

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 percentage turns out to be high: 605.067 Belgian websites are actually on the net. That means that 7 out of 10 owners of a .be domain actually use this domain

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30/07/09

.tel, now also on your iPhone and in Outlook

Since recently, there are applications that make it possible to manage your tel domain name via your iPhone and to link a .tel to Microsoft Outlook

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21/07/09

The owner of facebook.nl lost his domain name

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 that he registered the domain name before the Facebook community saw the light

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30/06/09

The number of domain names strongly increased

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 number of domain names increased by 12 % compared to the year before

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07/06/09

Fraud alert: pay attention to Domain Renewal Group and Domain Registry of America

Our customers regularly ask us whether they should pay invoices issued by Domain Renewal Group and Domain Registry of America. These fraudulent companies send an invoice to domain name owners in order to allegedly renew the registration of their domain name. If you pay it, your domain name will be transferred to another agent and your website and your e-mail will not work anymore

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14/04/09

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

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 very probable that she will have to give up her domain name to the American Twitter

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16/03/09

Domain names are immune to the crisis

VeriSign announced that in 2008, 24 million new domain names have been registered worldwide.

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11/03/09

Belgique.com was sold for 25,000 euros

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.

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