Kyrgyzstan Govt Considers Draconian Changes to .KG ccTLD
Posted by David Goldstein , Friday, 06 March 2009
The Kyrgyzstan government is rushing to pass legislation that would see management of the ccTLD transferred from the current manager of the ccTLD, AsiaInfo who has managed the .kg ccTLD since 1997, to KyrgyzPatent, the government patent office. It is feared this transfer will see government interference into who can register .kg domain names.
NIC Mexico Launches Registrations For Second Level Domains
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
Nic Mexico has launched a pre-registration period for third level domains for holders of .COM.MX, .NET.MX, .ORG.MX, .EDU.MX and .GOB.MX domains. To be eligible, all registrants needed to have held a domain name under of the above sub-domains before March 1, 2009.
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
The Alliance for Climate Protection to Promote .eco and will Receive Charitable Contributions from the Operation of the TLD
Dot Eco LLC (dotecotld.com), the applicant for the new .eco top level domain, today announced it has entered into an integrated partnership with former Vice President Al Gore and his philanthropy, the Alliance for Climate Protection (climateprotect.org), to secure and promote the .eco top level domain.
Dot VN Begins Registration for Exclusive Industry Domains Service
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
Dot VN, Inc., the Delaware corporation who has the exclusive rights as registrar for .VN (ccTLD for Vietnam) domain names has announced it has begun the sunrise period for registering its new "Industry Domains" exclusively managed by Dot VN.
Dot Eco Selects Minds + Machines to Provide Registry Services
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
.ECO, a new top-level domain initiative for people who care about the environment, has selected Minds + Machines as their domain name registry operator. Minds + Machines will help .ECO with the ICANN application process, and handle .ECO’s domain registry services after ICANN approval.
Minds + Machines Signs Exclusive Arrangement with CoCCA
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
– Most Widely Deployed Open-Source Registry Platform for Country-Code Extensions to Be Adapted to New Top-Level Domains from ICANN –
Minds + Machines has been granted the rights to the CoCCA registry software and the CoCCA brand for generic top-level domains. Minds + Machines will enhance the core code and features for new top-level domains and brand the platform as “Espresso,” which will be available in both hosted and locally-installed versions. CoCCA’s highly-praised work with country-code extensions will continue to be developed and made available to members of CoCCA to manage a ccTLD registry as a royalty-free open-source package.
New Premium Auctions Guidelines for Successful Domain Sales Released
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
Domain name owners can now submit up to 250 of their very best domains for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley in April 2009. However no typos, trademarks, hyphenated or crude adult names will be accepted for the TRAFFIC Silicon Valley auction to be held in Santa Clara, California.
DENIC Applies for ccNSO Membership
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
DENIC announced in an email to members last week that they, along with the ccTLD managers from .it, .be, .si, .lt and .hr, have applied for membership to the ccNSO – the Country Code Names Supporting Organization of ICANN.
35 Of The Most Desirable .ME Domains Go To Auction
Posted by David Goldstein , Thursday, 05 March 2009
Today (March 2), the .ME Registry announced a partnership with Sedo to list 35 of the most desirable .ME domain names at auction. Online bidding for these names begins March 26, 2009 and remains open until April 02, 2009.
dotMobi Allocates First Two-Character Mobile Domain to Fifth Third Bank
Posted by Caycee Boyce , Thursday, 05 March 2009
DUBLIN and WASHINGTON, DC – March 3, 2009 – dotMobi, the company behind .mobi – the only Internet address created specifically for locating content that works on all mobile phones – today announced the allocation of the first two-character mobile Internet domain to Fifth Third Bank: http://53.mobi .
