Domain Name Blog

From May 1 second level domains in Costa Rica will have a discount of 20%.

This reduction comes from the permanent effort of the Latin American NICs to make the registration in the region more attractive. To enjoy this discount, visit nameaction and register your domain names. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There will be 3 stages for the Registration of .MX
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· Pre-Registration
· Waiting Period
· Initial Period of Registration

Pre-Registration:
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Duration: May 1st 2009 to July 31st 2009.

The domain names already registered before May 1st 2009 will be blocked so that they are not able to be transferred or deleted during this [Read the rest of this entry...]

On March 31st the Ministry of Communications of Colombia has opened the tender for domains .CO.

The new administrator will be in charge of promotions, management and technical operations for the domains .CO although the Ministry will have under its responsibility the definition of politics, control of the activities and the surveillance of domains .CO. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Just a couple of hours left – 15:00 GMT, today February 3, 2009 the Landrush period for TEL domain name starts. It will be carried out on first-come-first-served basis. Up until March 23 – the domain names will be available at premium prices. After that the [Read the rest of this entry...]

Russian Domain Name is on the rise. As discussed in a previous article, Ru domain name celebrated its 1,000,000 domain name in April, 2008. It seems that it will have taken only a year to hop to the 2,000,000 mark. It is early days yet, but we can confirm that 1,800,000 domain names has been registered within Ru zone. That’s a very sharp rise. It seems that the global credit crunch is not affecting Russia.

The EU Domain Name has spent the [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a small internet marketing tip for guys who are targetting USA market while living abroad. For example, I am from Great Britain and even when I go to google.com and click “go to google.com” at the bottom, I still get geo-targeted Adwords results in the right bar. That’s no good, I wanna see who is targeting my keywords and doing [Read the rest of this entry...]

I’m not suggesting you replicate the movers and shakers of the web world. It would be naughty if I did. However, if we can learn a free lesson or two, why not? It is always better learning from other peoples’ success than from our own mistakes. Now, how did you like this quote of mine, huh? LOL

Both Alexa and Quantcast give you a [Read the rest of this entry...]

With the purpose of facilitating the management of a portfolio of domains of a Registrant, NIC Chile have implemented a new service which allows to block the transfer of a domain name. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Some time ago we had a post about the possibility countries of Great Britain could have their own top level domain. For Scotland this option looks like a certainty now after the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond MSP expressed his support to the campaign.

He mentioned that [Read the rest of this entry...]

Domain age is an important factor and many people base their valuation on it. So why is age regarded so much? With the age comes credibility, it is a known fact that an older site will rank better in search engine results than a freshly registered domain name.

However there’s a catch. The site should be indexed in order to factor it into domain name appraisal. Unfortunately, majority of buy-as-investment domains have been parked or just left inactive. Here comes the sad bit. [Read the rest of this entry...]