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11/04/07

Over 2,5 million .eu domain names registered.

A little more than a year after the .eu launch, some 2.6 million .eu domain names have been sold. That makes the .eu domain a little bigger than .nl, the latter with a little over 2,3 million registrations.

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23/03/07

.tel me about it! - .tel domain open for registration soon.

On Friday 2nd of March ICANN announced it has added the .tel domain to the DNS root zone, making it the 15th top level domain under contract with ICANN, on the internet

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05/02/07

.aero, the new extension for airlines and airports.

Domain names of this type can therefore not be registered freely. The registration of an .aero domain name is based on a principle comparable to the registration of a .travel domain name.

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11/12/06

112 Million World Wide Domain Registration Mark reached!

A record number of 112 million domain names are now registered. That is 30% more than just one year ago and a 6% increase in the previous quarter. The 5 largest TLDs remain .com, .de , .net, .uk and .org

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11/12/06

.asia formally approved by ICANN

ICANN agreed to the introduction of a special domain for Asian countries

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11/12/06

DNS.BE reduces cost of domain name disputes

Defendant has to pay back half of the procedure costs if he/she loses.

DNS.BE (The Belgian Association for Internet Domain Name Registration) will financially intervene in the so called alternatve dispute resolution, from next year on. This procedure allows for people that have established rights to a domain name, to reclaim the domain name from anybody that has registered it

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25/11/06

.IN registrations have doubled this year

The most used and most well-known internet domain extension still is .COM. However, .IN - the allocated ccTLD for India - is catching the fancy of the internet businesses and users fast, as the numbers show, with 200,000 domains registered, that is almost double the amount of last year.

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21/11/06

Domain name transfer procedure changes for .com and .net

For transfers of .com and .net domain names a so called EPP-key (authorisation key) is required from now on

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18/11/06

.fr and .re domain name registrations before summer 2006 open to individuals

The Board of Directors of the French AFNIC, has decided during its October 21 meeting to open .fr and .re domain name registrations to individuals by July 2006

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17/11/06

dotMobi Breaks the 200,000 Mark

dotMobi announced it has reached two new significant milestones since its successful September public launch

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16/11/06

IDN (special characters) now possible for .com.tr domain

The Turkish NIC has decided to enable support for Turkish character encoded domain names (including characters like 'ü', 'ö', 'ç' etc), and will be accepting orders starting the 4th of december 2006. Support for other languages will be added at a later stage

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15/11/06

General-use JP Domain Names Exceed 500,000

General-use JP Domain Names Exceed 500,000 in just 5 Years since Launch

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14/11/06

.es: Anniversary: One year after Landrush

It is now exactly one year since the landrush of the Spanish Top Level Domain .es, a good time to determine if it was successful

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14/11/06

New STLDs .cym and .sco requested at ICANN

After the successful application by the catalan community to set up the .cat domain extension, two new requests have been filed with ICANN, namely for the .cym and for the .sco STLD

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02/11/06

More than 9 million Internet domain names hosted in Taiwan.

According to official statistics released by the government-sponsored Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan hosted 9.07 million Internet domain names in July 2006, 

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