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25/08/06

U.S. maintain their hold on ICANN

The American government has extended its contract with ICANN, and in doing so has effectively maintained its power over the management of the internet

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25/08/06

Re-release of 74.000 .EU domain names?

A few weeks ago we were informed by EURid that 74.000 .eu domain names had received the status 'ON HOLD'. All these domain names had been registered by some 400 registrars that violated EURid's Terms & Conditions.

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16/06/06

.VN Vietnam's Top Level Domain open to the public since August 14th 2006

For years the Vietnam registry offered only third level domains such as 'com.vn, org.vn, ...', but since August 14th the top level domain .VN domain is open to the public. The only restriction is that only companies can register .VN names

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11/04/06

Red light for XXX domain name

A proposal to create a .XXX domain for pornographic sites on the Internet was shelved by ICANN, the International body that manages the Web, at a board meeting in Wellington

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03/11/05

European commission reserves 1400 .EU domain names

Recently Brussels published a list containing some 1400 .EU domain names,  related to geographical concepts, that are reserved for the European  States. This in order to avoid others from hijacking these domain names  for their own purposes

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13/10/05

Official launch date .eu domain names announced!

December 7 2005: .EU launch for trademark holders

Finally!

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28/09/05

.VN will be available within a few months

After Spain, and others, Vietnam will join in the liberation of their domain extension. This means you will be able to register .VN domain names within several months with COMBELL. Subextensions like .COM.VN, .PRO.VN, etc... are available now. Look here for an overview of .VN domain extensions. 

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06/09/05

UPDATE .ES liberated from the 8th of November.

The timetable has been released. Starting the 8th of November, the market for .ES domain names will be open to the public. Companies currently benefit from two Sunrise Periods

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01/09/05

Bush tries to stop the upcoming .XXX domain extension.

The American Government has asked ICANN to delay the realization of the .XXX domain extension. Bush tries hard to stop the internet’s new ‘red-light district’

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16/08/05

ICANN approves the new .tel domain extension

Even though it’s still uncertain that the new .tel domain will actually become available, Khashavar Mahdavi (CEO Telnic) is positive it will. It expects the new domain extension by the end of 2006

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13/07/05

ICANN approves the new .mobi domain extension

The new .mobi extension will most likely be launched the second half of 2006 and will primarily be used by websites targeting mobile devices like PDA’s and mobile phones supporting an internet connection

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02/06/05

Price reduction .FR domain names + promotion

Thanks to the great number of .FR domain names COMBELL manages for its customers, we can from now on offer you very competitive prices for the registration of your French domain names. The yearly price went down from 75,00 eur to 49,00 eur

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09/05/05

Registration of .job and .travel will become possible

ICANN has approved the new toplevel domains .travel and .jobs

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06/03/05

Launch of European domain names (.EU) in the fourth quarter of 2005

Launch of European domain names (.EU) in the fourth quarter of 2005

COMBELL made an overview of what is going to happen before the real launch.

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09/01/04

Singapore .com.sg domain name free for registration

We arrange for a local address in Singapore. Every company or organisation can from now on register a .com.sg domain name in order to secure their company name and trademarks.

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