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02/10/07

Domain names: millions of dollars to be made

It’s been proven again: there’s a lot of money to be made with domain names.

Especially domains that already generate millions of dollars in their trade are gaining popularity

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02/10/07

Sweden joins the IDN craze.

Earlier, we announced that IDN will soon be available with .be and .nl extensions.

Now, Sweden will follow that example. A Sunrise period has already set in on the 4th of July 2007 in order to launch those IDN.

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01/10/07

The launch of Asian domain names (.ASIA): registrations possible during the last quarter of 2007

The ICANN, the organisation in charge of managing top-level domain names (TLD), has given its approval for the introduction of the .asia umbrella domain.

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13/08/07

Russia is heading for its millionth .ru domain name

Russia is growing. And it shows on the Internet too. In April 2006, 500000 domain names had already been registered under the .ru TLD. By the end of 2006, this number had increased to 718000.

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08/08/07

2.5 million .NL domains

On 08/08/2007, SIDN announced that the 2.5 millionth .nl domain name had been registered. Since 2003, there has been an amazing increase in the number of .nl domain names

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01/08/07

.nl, green light for numeric domain names.

For several extensions, registering numeric domain names such as 123.com has been possible for a while.

However, it hasn’t been possible yet for .nl domains

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26/07/07

NIC Mexico chosen for the Latin TLD.

The South American Internet federations have chosen NIC Mexico, the domain registry for .mx, as their partner to create the Top Level Domain for the Latin community

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26/07/07

Chinese national domain extension makes top 3

CNNIC, the Chinese information centre, recently reported that the national TLD (Top-Level Domain) .cn has become the third largest national domain extension in the world since last May 21st

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25/07/07

.au: soon less painful?

auDA, short for ‘.au Domain Administration Limited’, the Australian domain name registry, is conducting a study that could eventually lead to a simpler registration procedure for national domain name

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25/07/07

At last .kr can be registered freely

Earlier this year, South Korea held what is called a landrush period, which started on March 28th and ended on April 11th 2007

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23/07/07

The Mobile domain name .mobi is on the rise

The ‘Top Level Domain’ name .mobi has clearly hit the bullseye. Barely 10 months after the launch of this ‘mobile domain name’, 600000 domains have already been registered

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23/07/07

Spain launches Internationalized Domain Names

After a long reflection period, the Spanish domain registry has decided to introduce IDN domain names (which are adapted to local language and thus allow the use of Spanish characters)

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22/07/07

The European .eu domain extension is skyrocketing.

Judging from the domain name registrations, a European feeling really exists indeed.

From the most recent collected data on the number of registered .eu domain names, it appears that, with 2,6 million registrations, this extension has reached the third place on a European level

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02/07/07

IDNs will soon be available for .be names

DNS Belgium, the Belgian organization in charge of Belgian domain name registration, has recently decided to allow special characters such as é, è and ë in domain names. Such domain names are also called IDNs.

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11/04/07

.xxx domain, too hot to handle? Rejected by ICANN yet again

After ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) declared, in early January, that their 'no' to .xxx from May 2006, was not a 'no' against the proposal to introduce the .xxx domain, but a vote against the agreement that ICM sought to reach with ICANN - ICANN questioned the way the address was going to be managed - the possible introduction of .xxx was put back on the ICANN agenda

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