Archive for October, 2008:
filed in Domain Registration, Internet Business on Oct.28, 2008
Never forget a domain renewal again. Should it be your own domain name or one you are looking to grab or purchase, it is always annoying to miss the date and see the domain going to someone else. We are usually holding our domain names with different registrars and it would be good to have [...]
Tags: domain reminder, domain tools
filed in Domain Registration on Oct.27, 2008
The registry operator of the new TLD, Telnic Ltd, has revealed that exactly 100 domain name registrars have expressed their interest in offering .TEL domain names to clients.
The first to jump on the incomplete train of .TEL was the old fox EuroDNS. They are doing their best to
Tags: eurodns, tel, telnic
filed in Domain Registration, Domain Statistics on Oct.24, 2008
Today is IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) Awareness day – the only day in the year when everyone is trying to be aware about filth and fraud ruling the internet.
Afilias, the registry of INFO domain names, has actually tried to switch from words to deeds. The company has found methods to cut the abusive sits on [...]
Tags: domain name, domains, fraud, info, iwf, safety
filed in Domain Politics, Internet Business on Oct.24, 2008
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 [...]
Tags: Brazil, domains, latin america
filed in Domain Registration, Domain Sales on Oct.17, 2008
This Saturday (October 18, 2008) Nic Brazil will free more than 100.000 domains being available for registration by anyone.
If you want to review the complete list of domains to be freed and register some of them please check: http://registro.br/info/proclib-l.html
According to the rules of NIC Brazil if the same domain name is
Tags: Brazil, domain, latin america, libertation.
filed in Domain Registration on Oct.17, 2008
Interested in taking part in developing the .TEL applications for mobile devices? Visit http://dev.telnic.org . Since yesterday 16, October 2008 a collection of source codes, API, toolkits and guides are made available for developers. Feel free to download and play with the code. It is expected that mobile applications will attract the biggest interest. The [...]
filed in Domain Registration on Oct.15, 2008
Telnic has listed the official launch scheme information for the .TEL domain name registrations.
1. Sunrise Period – opens at 15:00 GMT on December 3rd 2008; closes at 23:59 GMT on February 2nd 2009. Sunrise will be open for holders of registered national trademarks. To qualify for sunrise period, trademarks must have been applied for [...]
filed in Domain Statistics on Oct.14, 2008
LatinoamerICANN published its monthly report with domain name statistics in Latin America for September 2008.
One of the main points is that the region at last exceeded the amount of 4,000,000 domain names delegated and it represents a growth of 17,87% from the beginning of the year.
The leader TLD is Argentina (.AR) followed by Brazil (.BR), [...]
Tags: domain, latinamerica, Statistics
filed in Domain Politics, Domain Registration on Oct.07, 2008
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 [...]
filed in Domain Registration, Internet Business on Oct.07, 2008
I was just browsing the net and then I stumbled over an interesting site, which I think is something my readers would gladly use. It is a domain name generator, not the usual stuff. This is pretty sophisticated. This domain name generator lets you select a topic, generates names using several different patterns and checks [...]