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The biggest change in domain-name history is about to get underway, despite plenty of critics. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is starting the application period for new top-level domains. This will allow any company or organization, with enough money, to request custom TLDs such as .a... |
12 January 2012
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There are now close to 100 million .com domains in the world. To date, 98 million .com domain names have been registered and more added each day. At the current rate, the 100 million mark should be reached by the end of the year.
Pingdom, based on Registrar Stats data, has put up a small chart displaying the number ... |
21 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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The rather new .co country code top level domain is gaining quite a bit of popularity. There have been plenty of other ccTLDs that have become popular as international domains, but this one is being marketed as an alternative to .com by Columbia, which owns it, itself.This poses an interesting question, does Google t... |
6 October 2011
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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has given the go-ahead on plans to create generic top level domain names which would enable brands, organizations, governments and so on to create their own TLDs, in the likes of .nyc, .canon, .sports and so on.The idea is to enable a lot more flexibilit... |
20 June 2011
04:28 GMT |
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During the first quarter of 2011, 4.5 million new domain names have been added. According to a report from VeriSign, there are now 209.8 million registered domains on the internet. The .com top level domain name continued to dominate, followed by .de and .net."The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in th... |
31 May 2011
11:50 GMT |
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Over the weekend, GoDaddy, the world largest domain name registrar experimented with offering a .co domain as the default option on the homepage. GoDaddy has always had .com as the default TLD and has now reverted to it after testing .co for a period."The Go Daddy test is exciting. Permanent? Not yet," Juan Calle, CE... |
15 November 2010
04:14 GMT |
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The Internet is bracing itself for a “historic“ change. Or, at least, that’s what the ICANN, the global authority on Internet domain names, calls it. The first country code domain names using non-Latin characters are now live, the organization has announced. The IDN ccTLDs (internationalized domain ... |
6 May 2010
08:47 GMT |
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The .com domain name is 25 years old today, with March 15, 1985 marking the date of the first registered domain Symbolics.com. Today, there are tens of millions of .com domain names, but things didn't move too fast at the very beginning. In fact, for the full year of 1985, only six .com domains were registered a... |
15 March 2010
08:13 GMT |
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Nobody can argue that the number of mobile-dedicated websites has risen considerably, since the mobile market has one of the most flourishing ones all around the world, while more and more customers use their devices as a means to access the Internet. Therefore, the acquisition of the domain .mobi is sure to bring Af... |
22 February 2010
01:59 GMT |
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On the 26th of June 2008, the board of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) at the annual meeting in Paris, agreed to introduce new domain names starting with the second quarter of 2009. Practically, the new domain names will not have any restriction in definition. For example, they could rang... |
27 June 2008
12:09 GMT |
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When you get popular over the Internet through a domain name or a trademark reflected in a domain name, the possibility appears that other people take advantage of your popularity benefits too by cybersquatting. For example, they can register a domain name similar to yours with the only difference in the TLD type. T... |
5 March 2008
12:14 GMT |
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Finally, someone is getting to the bottom of things: instead of special phishing-preventing software, a new security solution has been disclosed. DotAsia is a new TLD (top level domain) and, because it's still "fresh", it's going to be able to fight better in the anti-phishing battle! As seen on TechWorld, ... |
12 October 2007
05:27 GMT |
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Several security experts are outraged and complaining about a new measure .name controllers took and that just might be helping cyber-crime. GNR (Global Name Registry) is the company that administers the .name domain - they've recently made a modification in their "whois" system - if you want to find out the ful... |
1 October 2007
08:48 GMT |
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