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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.

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

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.

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.

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

Since today it is possible to talk about safe internet banks in Brazil.
Back in September 24, 2008 Brazil created a new second level domain B.BR (the usual second level domains in use in Brazil is COM.BR) only for financial institutions to allow safe transactions for almost 30 milion people that use internet banking in Brazil.
This [...]

Today October 7, 2008, the official registry of INFO domain name Afilias has released a brand-new “Anti-Abuse Policy” in an attempt to make the .INFO domain safer for the Internet users.
Both webmasters and visitors are aware that large amounts of scam and phishing comes through the .INFO based domain names. Why is that? Mainly [...]

To answer somewhat cocky comments from domain blogs (including this blog: read here) and other independent information sources, ICANN has posted to its official blog to explain the situation about domain names of Abkhazia and Ossetia.
ICANN reiterates that it is an international organization and is not

The Ministry of Communications in Colombia has prepared the Resolution, which regulates the management of domains in Colombia. At this moment the process to initiate the Tender is pending. The following are most important points:

We may soon witness birth of two more top level domains (TLD) – even in our modern times new countries are being established. This time they are Abkhazia and Ossetia, which are de-facto independent countries in the region of Caucasus. The offered TLD would be .AB for Abkhazia and .OS for Ossetia. It is possible [...]