According to the BBC, .Uk just hit the 10 million domain mark. The 10th million domain name is swarvemagazine.co.uk which was registered by Steven Northam for a photography-based publication. Nominet who operates…
Category: ccTLD’s
New Report: .Au Domain Space Brought Half A Billion Dollars To Australia’s Economy in 2011
According to a story tonight in Pcadvisor.co.uk, which cites a recent report by Deloitte. the .Au Domain name space has “generated big business in Australia and will continue to do so” The…
India Court Upholds Order Canceling The Registration Of The Domain Internet.In Based Off Of A Trademark On Internet
The High Court Of Delhi At New Delhi has just upheld an arbitrators determination that the domain name Internet.in should be taken away from the domain holder, its registration cancelled and ordered…
FT.com: Average 1 Letter .Co.Uk Domain Auction Goes For $60K: Facebook, Mercedez Win; Google Gets Outbid
According to FT.com in a recently concluded auction, the average price for a single letter .co.uk domain name was £39,000 or roughly $60,000. “In all Twelve single-letter domains, including x.co.uk and 0.co.uk,…
US Not The Only Country To Seize Domains: Nominet Shuts Down More Than 3,000 .Co.Uk Sites
According the telegraph.co.uk, Nominet, the not-for-profit company that controls the registry of “dot uk” domain names, held a meeting in London on Monday, with authorities including the Metropolitan Police and the Serious…
TechCrunch: “3.4 Million .EU Domain Names Registered In Five Years I Call Dismal Failure”
Shortly after EURid the .eu top-level domain (TLD) registry, sent out a glowing press release marking the domain’s fifth birthday, TechCrunch blasted the extension and the press release in a post entitled …
What If A New Extension Launched & No One Showed Up? It Did Yesterday; .So What? Pirates.So Goes For $10
The general availability of the .So extension opened yesterday April 1st 2011. Yes on April’s Fools Day. No joke. I guess its poetic justice that the ccTLD for arguably the most rouge…