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The German Registry, DENIC eG, for the .de ccTLD has issued a warning against a billing scam. The Registry states that the scam attempts to “extract money from customers for a senseless and dubious service”.…
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Pitcairn Island has less than 100 residents, but they’re determined to win their .pn extension back from the hands of an islander who got control of the domain when it was first assigned to the island. ICANN ruled that the control be returned to the Pitcairn Island Council.…
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Virtual Internet will launch its sale of .it names (the Italian top-level domain) this month on the 15th. Names registrants are restricted to members of the European Union. IT companies are likely to take advantage of the newly available TLD for nice .com alternatives.…
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After battling with the Internet Registration Authority (IRA) for over two years, Palestine finally has its own top-level country domain, .ps.…
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A UK Registrar, UK.co is now offering domain names under their .uk.co extension. Insiders like Ian Tester from Fletcher Research claims it will make the internet a harder place to navigate and confuse those attempting to reach a .co.uk site.…
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Connect – Ireland, one of only two web hosting providers in Ireland, was recently hacked and finally had to ‘throw the switch’ causing their 3,000 customers to lose services. The attack is suspected to come from supporters of the Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor, and meant to disrupt the flow …
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Ascension Island has started peddling its top-level domain name, .ac, through the UK firm, Internet Computer Bureau.…
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The top-level domain .tm launched last February, but came to a halt in April when the Turkmenistan government noticed questionable (in their language) domain names being registered. Names like pizza.tm is, apparently, a curse word in Turkmenistan. Because of this, the registration process for that ccTLD is on hold. Other …
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The country of Tonga had set its TLD .to out for resale through the company Tonic. Now they’ve introduced a no-spam policy. Any .to domains involved in spam will be booted, says His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tupouto’a.…
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A new top-level domain, .tm, is being introduced by NetNames, a Domain Registry company based in London. .tm originally stood for Turkmenistan, a small country who was originally allotted the TLD, but has decided to sell it out. Other countries have also had success in selling their domains, such as …
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With the rest of the domain community focusing on new TLDs, Jenni Baier quieting struck a deal with the Niue government to provide domain registrations under the Niue country code domain, .nu.…
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In order to capitalize on the growing domain registration market and the shortfall of premium available names, the Kingdom of Tonga began selling its .to country code domain to online name buyers.…
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The Kingdom of Tonga has sold more than 200 .to domain names thus far, through Tonic Corporation, the company handling their .to registry. Registration fees for the .to domain names are $100 for the first year and $50 a year thereafter, which is the same as the .com fees.…
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