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11/03/09

.be celebrates its 20th anniversary

The .be address exists since 1989. Back then, there were only a few Internet users. Only universities and large companies such as IBM used the Internet to send e-mails. In order to be able to communicate more easily, the .be domain has been created.

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25/02/09

Toys.com sold for 1.2 million $

Domain name trading remains a flourishing business. This week, toys.com sold for 1.2 million $.

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05/02/09

Domain value calculator

Have you always wanted to know the theoretical value of your domain name?

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29/01/09

17% more .be in 2008

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 in 2007

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29/01/09

New domain extensions: maybe not for tomorrow

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 be possible

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20/01/09

500,000 .cz domain names

A new milestone of half a million .cz (Czech Republic) domain names has been reached.

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05/11/08

Domain names from Slovenia (.si) have been liberalized

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.

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05/11/08

Pizza Hut changing its name to Pasta Hut causes great turmoil

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.

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01/11/08

Flanders wants .vla domain names

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.

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24/09/08

An increasing demand for .eu domain names

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.

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10/09/08

Dutch politicians want measures against domain names with typos

The CDA member of the Lower House Mirjam Sterk wants measures that will protect people from those who are called typosquatters and who register one or several domain names containing typos.

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10/09/08

Cybersquatters exploit hurricanes in America

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”

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10/09/08

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

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 $.

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10/09/08

Knol.com suddenly worth a lot of money

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 go by the name of Knol. 

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10/09/08

International domain names on the world map

Bytelevel has launched a very original world map on the market. Indeed, the map shows all 260 national domain extensions.

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