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27/02/08

.cr domain names soon open to the public

The registry of .cr (Costa Rica) domain names communicates that .cr domain names will soon be open to the public via a landrush.

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02/02/08

Domain names for advertising campaigns: more is better

Now that Internet has become a customary medium to support advertising campaigns, an increasing number of companies couple a more or less temporary domain name to their offers.

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24/01/08

Preregistration of numeric .nl domain names

In January 2008, SIDN (Stichting Internet Domeinregistraties Nederland) will allow numeric .NL domain names. Numeric domain names are exclusively composed of digits (minimum 2 and maximum 64) such as 1234.nl, 0800.nl, 02.nl or 12-34.nl, 0-2.nl, etc. 

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21/01/08

CNN spends 750.000 USD for a domain name

The commercial importance of a good domain name has once again been illustrated by the recent takeover of the domain name ireport.com by the news channel CNN, which, late last year, spent no less than 750.000 USD to obtain it

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21/12/07

Applications for Serbian domain names (.rs) will be accepted as from the beginning of next year

In the beginning of 2008, every interested party will be able to reserve a Serbian domain name. As from the 5th of January 2008, it will be possible to submit applications for a .rs domain

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13/12/07

COMBELL will build an Internet centre at Flanders Expo (Ghent) in 2010

In order to ensure its growth, COMBELL has purchased several thousands of m² of land in the vicinity of the Flanders Expo site in Ghent. There, a complete Internet centre will be built. This Internet centre will harbour COMBELL’s own data centre, which will be expanded according to a modular system. Its maximum capacity will be of 15000 servers or 550 racks.

By 2010, COMBELL will also have moved its Sint-Amandsberg offices to the hypermodern Internet centre in Ghent. This centre will offer enough expansion potential to be able to continue to accommodate the growing number of people. An auditorium & conference room will offer the possibility to organize various training sessions and seminars.

Moreover, the Internet centre will make +/- 2000m² of office space available to other innovative Internet companies that wish to establish themselves by 2010.

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11/12/07

Usage of the European Top Level Domain is on the rise

During the past third quarter, the use of the domain name extension .eu has increased with 23%. That’s what EURid, the European management agency for .eu domain names reports

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29/11/07

.TEL: launch during the first half of 2008

The next generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) to see the light of day after .ASIA will probably be .TEL. That’s what DomainesInfo communicated. The specialised site got its information from Philip Colebrook at Telnic during a recent ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) meeting in the US.

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20/11/07

Will .LAT become the Top Level Domain for Latin America and the Caribbean?

A domain name extension for Latin America will probably be created – that is, providing ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) gives its approval. Earlier this month, eCOM-LAC and NIC Mexico, who both campaigned for the domain, communicated that they would choose the extension .LAT

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06/11/07

Over 138 million domain names registered worldwide

According to the Domain Name Industry Brief of the American VeriSign for the second quarter of this year, it appears that during this same second quarter, a new record has been set concerning the number of new domain name registrations

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23/10/07

The Dutch domain name manager makes for faster registrations.

Last October 14, SIDN (the organisation that attributes and registers .nl domain names in the Netherlands) has increased the publication frequency of its zone files to 12 times a day.

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16/10/07

Russia hangs on to its federal domain.

It’s been a while since ICANN has been thinking of terminating the .su domain extension. This extension belonged to the former Soviet Union.

But the Russian DNS manager doesn’t want to know about this cancellation and demands that the .su extension is kept

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16/10/07

The Yugoslavian domain name .yu (finally) slowly dies off.

ICANN, the international domain manager has decided to terminate the .yu domains. The .yu was the Top Level Domain (ccTLD) of former Yugoslavia

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16/10/07

The end of public access to Whois?

Whois, a database containing data on domains and their owners might soon no longer be accessible to the public. According to several sources, ICANN is considering to mask certain elements

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02/10/07

.at domain name renewal scam

After the fraud signed Domain Registry of America (DRA), another company has appeared on the market trying to take over domains illegally

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