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Bientôt des noms à 1 caractère en .MOBI et .COOP ?
C'est le Sacré Graal des noms de domaine : les noms à un caractère de type "a.com". Considérés comme les plus désirables de tous, ils ont selon certains experts une valeur parfois inestimable....
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1 character domains coming to .MOBI and .COOP?
They're considered the most precious of all domain commodities: 1-character names.But they've been unavailable for years in all the major generic extensions (GTLDs). In fact, all 16 gTLD registries are...
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1 character domains coming to .MOBI and .COOP? – Update.
ICANN has responded to .MOBI and .COOP's request to release single character domains. A letter written to both registries states that no significant issues were found and that they will therefore now...
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DK Hostmaster replaced?
My good friend Francesco has been following the Danish IT authority's bid to select a new registry for the country very closely. And according to him, the current registry is about to be replaced!The...
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AFNIC exploring new avenues?
The French registry AFNIC sent out a press release late last week to highlight its new partnership with GS1 France, the local chapter of a global network of more than a million companies whose aim is...
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DotMobi giving away 1 and 2 character domains!
Registrar and registry representatives attending ICANN's Rome regional gathering last week. Photo SVG.During my stay in Rome last week for the ICANN registrars and registries regional conference, I ran...
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Holland's innovative take on local presence
Dutch registry SIDN manages more than 3 million 200 thousand .NL names.Country code TLDs often have some kind of local presence requirement. To be eligible for a .FR domain for example, you need an...
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.NL confirms plans to open up to non-Dutch registrants
In January, I gave kudos to the Dutch registry SIDN for coming up with a clever solution to open up .NL to registrants that don't have an address in Holland.Yesterday, the DomainesInfo editorial team...
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1 and 2 character domains coming to .TRAVEL
Tralliance, the .TRAVEL registry, submitted a registry service request to ICANN yesterday (May 18). It wants to offer 1 and 2 character domain names before the year is out..This request is similar to...
View ArticleStronger abuse protection considered for .COM
.COM registry Verisign is planning a more robust authentication service to prevent accidental or abuse modifications to domain names. The company is billing this as part of a domain name security...
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Polish registry embroiled in financial scandal
Former NASK Director Maciej Koz?owski was replaced on July 1st after it was reported that the polish registry lost over 3 million euros on bad investments.NASK, the entity in charge of Poland's .PL...
View ArticleSweden blocks "bank" domain name registrations
What can ccTLD (national suffix) managers do to reduce the risk of fraud for the users of online banking services? The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency's (PTS) answer: restrict domain name registrations...
View ArticleAfilias acquires .MOBI registry
Afilias, the registry for .INFO and several other TLDs, has just announced its purchase of mTLD, the registry for .MOBI.Afilias was already running the back-end registry service for .MOBI, which today...
View ArticleICM boss claims .XXX has now cost him over $10 million!
Just been talking numbers with ICM Registry supremo Stuart Lawley, who is addressing the ICANN community in an open letter posted on CircleID.And whatever opinions you have on the .XXX saga, you have...
View ArticleVerisign withdraws 1&2 character .NET request
In what was widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for the future release of all 1 and 2 character .COM domains, Verisign put in a request in August for the same operation in .NET.However in a surprise...
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