Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD on behalf of the United Kindom announced today that it was going ahead with its controversial plan to domain go launch the shorter .uk domain name not only to compete with all the thousands of new gTLD's most notably .London, but to bring the UK into line with other European countries such as France (.fr), Germany (.de) and Ireland (.ie) Nominet … [Read more...]
With New gTLD’s Coming To Market .TO Rebrands Itself To Represent Toronto
.To has become the second country code (ccTLD) to rebrand itself to represent a city. Following on the succesful rebranding of .La which is the ccTLD for Laos for Los Angeles , .TO which is the ccTLD for Tonga send out a press release today announcing the re-launch .TO for Toronto "Comparatively speaking, .TO is wide open", observed Eric … [Read more...]
Over 35 Two Letter .Co.Uk Hit The Auction Block at NameJet
Although its not a market I invest in, I found it interesting that over 35 two letter .co.uk domain names have hit the auction blog over at Namejet.com .co.uk domain names has been in the news as Nominet UK, the company that operates the ccTLD has been consider plans to offer .Uk domain names thereby great diminishing the value of .co.uk domains. The domain names do have an undisclosed … [Read more...]
Facing Competition From .Kiwi, New Zeland ccTLD To Allow .NZ Registrations
The Council of InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) which operates the ccTLD for New Zealand approved today to allow domain names to be registered at the second level in the .nz domain name space. By allowing registrations at the second level, people and organisations will be able to register theirname.nz instead of theirname.co.nz or theirname.net.nz (the current system, which allows … [Read more...]
Nominet Opens Comment Period On Whether .UK Domains Should Contain “Offensive Words”
Nominet which runs the .Uk domain naming system, just opened up a comment period on whether .UK domain names should be allowed to contain "offensive words or phrases". "Nominet is today launching a review of its registration policy for .uk domain names. " "The scope of the review focuses on whether there should be restrictions on the words and expressions permitted in .uk domain name … [Read more...]
Godaddy To Rebrand .La Domain Names & Market Them In Los Angeles
According to The LA Times, GoDaddy, will kick off a marketing campaign Monday to re-brand .LA as the Web suffix for Los Angeles after partnering with CentralNic, the company that handles the database for .the .LA ccTLD. .LA is the ccTLD for Laos. Godaddy and CentralNic are apparently taking the upcoming new gTLD launch as an opportunity to re-brand .LA in the same light as other … [Read more...]
After 9 NameJet Auctions We Know The Value Of A Prime Generic .PW Is About $200
This week namejet.com auctioned off several prime generic .PW domain names thereby setting the value of these types of .PW domains. Some of the domains that sold this week had some of the best prime generic terms like search.pw, internet.pw, blogs.pw and money.pw and creditcards.pw . As new gTLD's rollout each registry is going to have to consider if they are going to throw much of their … [Read more...]