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Blogger to Move to Country-Specific Domains to Counter Censorship

Blogger is making a move very similar to Twitter, allowing for the removal of content on a country-by country basis, to be able to conform to law requirements in certain places but still offer as much content as possible to as many people as possible. The move comes too fast after Twitter's for it to have serve...

1 February 2012
09:41 GMT

Google's Matt Cutts Explains Whether .co Domains Will be Treated as International Ones

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
14:21 GMT

Google Maps Is Available in 40 More Countries via a Local Domain

Google has announced that it is expanding the number of local domains for Google Maps. In one fell swoop, Google has added over 40 new domains for the site, making it easier for people around the world to use the mapping tool and get results catering to their location."Back in 2005 we started with one domain, .com, a...

20 August 2011
08:30 GMT

There Are Now 210 Million Domain Names Online

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

500,000 Russian .рф Domain Names Registered in the First Week

Internationalized domain names stirred quite a controversy when the idea was proposed but ICANN's decision to move forward faster with plans to launch the domain names for non-romanic languages seems to have been quite a success. IDN ccTLDs were made available in Russia about a week ago and there have been aroun...

18 November 2010
12:02 GMT

Increasing Number of ccTLDs Used in Malware Distribution

According to a report from German antivirus vendor Avira, the number of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) used to distribute malware has increased significantly during October.The biggest deviation was registered for .ru with a 73.92% increase compared to September. Despite this, .com remains the most abused TL...

15 November 2010
10:54 GMT

GoDaddy Tests .co Domain as Default

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

Chinese Top Level Domain Names Have Been Approved by ICANN

The internationalization of top level domain names continues with the approval of Chinese-character ccTLDs (country code top level domains) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). A total of five new domain names have been approved; China and Taiwan get two each and Hong Kon...

28 June 2010
06:59 GMT

The First Websites with Non-Latin Domain Names Go Live

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

ICANN Approves Plan to Introduce Non-Latin Domain Names

Unsurprisingly, ICANN has approved the plan to introduce support for domain names in non-Latin characters. The move is billed as the biggest change to how the Internet works since its inception forty years ago but it is far from a done deal yet. The support will be rolled out in several stages and if everything goes ...

31 October 2009
07:49 GMT

Typo in DNS Script Takes Down All Swedish Websites

Last night all of the .se websites disappeared from the Internet for more than an hour in some cases and none of the websites using that particular top level domain were accessible during this period. The problem popped up at around 22:00 local time and was caused by a faulty script that was used to update the .se zo...

13 October 2009
10:08 GMT


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