EuroDns.com laid out the dates for the rollout of the .cm extension, which certainly will be a highly sort after country code. .CM is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Republic of Cameroon. As we know, .cm is a frequently  hit typo, when someone directly navigates to a .com., and has quite a history. In a recent auction held by Rick Latona, many of the registry owned .cm … [Read more...]

This guest post was written by  Juan Enrique Sánchez, President of  www.nameaction.com, who has written several guest posts in the past year for domains in the latin market. Mr. Sánchez talks about the 3 stages for the Registration of .MX (Mexico) cctld: ----------------------------------------------------------- · Pre-Registration · Waiting Period · Initial Period of … [Read more...]

A blog post yesterday in Tech Crunch, asks the question of how valuable short URL's are, based on a Twitter society where shorter is not only better, but necessary. The post pointed out the fact that bit.ly just got $2 million dollars in for 20% of the company, placing a value on the company of $8 million. """"In a world where everything is being jammed into 140 characters or less, shorter … [Read more...]

Before jumping into the ccTLD game, remember that these domains, being country codes, are subject to rules and conditions placed on them by the host country. For example both Canada (.ca) and the European Union (.eu) have presence requirements for domain holders. China (.cn) regularly shuts down sites which violate state rules against porn and political thought.  Government action can be … [Read more...]