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Top ccTLD Sales Continue to Grow At Non-.COM's Expense

Pascal — 2010-08-16T13:33:00Z

Top ccTLD Sales Continue to Grow At Non-.COM's Expense Sales of country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) names continue to grow at the expense of non.COM generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) an analysis of the top reported domain name sales from 2007 to mid-2010 has shown. Using Domain Name Journal's lists of top reported sales for the period to 30 June 2010, sales of ccTLDs have increased from 6.9 per cent of the top 100 sales (sales can total more than 100 due to ties for 100th position) in (...) - Latest feeds

Domain Name Aftermarket Grows Steadily in Q2, 2010: Sedo Study

Pascal — 2010-08-09T13:27:00Z

Domain Name Aftermarket Grows Steadily in Q2, 2010: Sedo Study Offer-Counteroffer sales are the most prominent type of sales, .COM is the most popular top level domain, .DE is the most popular country code domain while .FR domains have the highest average sale value are the highlights from over 11,000 domain names sold through the domain marketplace and monetisation provider, Sedo, according to their latest quarterly report. In the last quarter 11,146 domain names were sold through Sedo's (...) - Latest feeds

Welcome to eBrand Services monthly update (ccTLDs and gTLDs).

Pascal — 2010-08-02T13:29:00Z

Welcome to eBrand Services monthly update of news regarding updates to country code and generic Top Level Domains (ccTLDs and gTLDs). Welcome to eBrand Services monthly update of news regarding updates to country code and generic Top Level Domains (ccTLDs and gTLDs). Bulgaria Seeks Public Opinion on Cyrillic TLD The Bulgarian Transport Ministry has a poll running proposing four options for a Bulgarian TLD in Cyrillic with the aim that the TLD with the most support will be applied for. (...) - Latest feeds

Geographic and Specialty Names Dominate Proposed gTLDs

Pascal — 2010-07-26T10:11:00Z

Geographic and Specialty Names Dominate Proposed gTLDs Over 100 proposals have been publicly announced for when ICANN begins taking applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) according to statistics compiled by Adrenaline TLD, themselves likely applicants for a number of sporting-related gTLDs such as .SKI, .BIKE and .SURF. The proposals are dominated by geographical and specialty strings and these make up 87 of the 104 possibilities and do not include internationalise domain (...) - Latest feeds

Early Signs Of .CO Success With Over a Quarter Million Registrations in Two Days

Pascal — 2010-07-19T08:14:00Z

Early Signs Of .CO Success With Over a Quarter Million Registrations in Two Days The relaunch of the .CO ccTLD has gone extraordinarily well with over a quarter of a million registrations within the first two days of general availability. The Colombian ccTLD has been relaunched as a joint venture between Arcelandia S.A., a wholly-owned Colombian company, and the US company Neustar, Inc, for the purpose of developing and operating the .CO Internet registry. This new partnership will be (...) - Latest feeds

Internationalised Domain Names Gives Global Internet Users Online Opportunities

Pascal — 2010-07-12T15:27:00Z

Internationalised Domain Names Gives Global Internet Users Online Opportunities Internationalised Domain Names are now coming online with several benefits for internet users and businesses in those languages adopting them. IDNs allow internet users whose language uses local language letters or characters from non-ASCII scripts (for example, Arabic or Chinese). Internet users will see benefits of IDNs as in languages where they are being introduced. The most important is the ability to (...) - Latest feeds

Welcome to E-Brand Services monthly update of news regarding updates to country code and generic Top Level Domains (ccTLDs and gTLDs).

Pascal — 2010-07-05T08:27:00Z

Welcome to E-Brand Services monthly update of news regarding updates to country code and generic Top Level Domains (ccTLDs and gTLDs). Nic.at Introduces Whois Privacy Changes Nic.at, the registry for .AT domain names, has introduced changes to its Whois privacy rules. As of 7 January 2010, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses are all hidden by default and any registrant wishing to show this information will have to choose to do so. Annual Report 2009 of DNS BE Shows Another (...) - Latest feeds

ICANN Brussels Meeting Approves Chinese IDNs While .XXX Is Almost There

Pascal — 2010-06-28T15:26:00Z

ICANN Brussels Meeting Approves Chinese IDNs While .XXX Is Almost There ICANN concluded its most recent meeting last week in Brussels with two significant board resolutions - one controversial, the other welcome. In addition no clear date was set, once again, for when ICANN might begin taking applications for new generic Top Level Domains. And the Government Advisory Committee, who gives advice to ICANN on issues of concern to government regarding the domain name system, voiced concerns (...) - Latest feeds

ICANN's New gTLD

Pascal — 2010-06-11T15:18:00Z

ICANN's New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook Gives Added Protection to Trademark Holders ICANN's New gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook Gives Added Protection to Trademark Holders ICANN released the fourth version of their Draft Applicant Guidebook for potential new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) applicants last week with several issues of interest to brand owners and trademark holders. The latest draft of the guidebook has changed in only a few areas from version three and will be a topic of (...) - Latest feeds

ccTLDs and gTLDs monthly updates

Pascal — 2010-06-01T13:05:06Z

Welcome to E-Brand Services monthly update of news regarding updates to country code and generic Top Level Domains (ccTLDs and gTLDs). Changes to .AT Whois privacy policy Nic.at, the registry for .AT domain names, announced that phone, fax and email details will be hidden as the default setting for Whois domain registration data as of 7 January 2010. If registrants wish to make this data public, they will have to choose this option. New General Manager for DNS.BE Philip Du Bois is the new (...) - Latest feeds