Jan 2011, UK VAT increases to 20.0% (from the previous rate of 17.5%) To ease the pain for domain registrants for the whole of January, Astutium Ltd Domain Registration Service will effectively pay the VAT on your new domain registrations with our special 20.0% discount on all our registration prices with money-off coupon VAT2011 Take advantage of the …
Category Archive: Domains
Annoucements about Top Level Domains (TLDs)
Jan 05
New .CN Registrations Suspended Indefinitely
It is with regret that we have to announce that CNNIC has imposed an immediate and indefinite suspension of all .CN registrations from overseas Registrars. As a result of this action by CNNIC, we have no choice but to stop accepting new .CN registrations through OthelloNames.net and OthelloReg.net with immediate effect from today. Please note …
Jan 01
VAT FREE! Domain Name Registrations
Jan 1st 2010, UK VAT returned to 17.5% (from the temporary discount to 15%) To ease the pain for domain registrants for the whole of January, Othello Technology Systems Ltd Domain Registration Service will effectively pay the VAT on your new domain registrations with our special 17.5% discount on all our registration prices with money-off …
Nov 04
Nominet Registrar Day today at Lords MCC
Nominet Registrar Day today at Lords MCC. To celebrate we’re offering you the chance to get your own .UK domain during the conference for just £2.95/2yrs (saving £3) Use promocode “LORDSCRICKET” when registering a new domain at OthelloNames .UK Domain Registration Promotion Terms & Conditions: one domain per customer, new and existing clients allowed
Sep 27
ICANN terminates Red Register Inc Registrar Accreditation
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has terminated Red Register Inc.’s accreditation, 26/September/2009 Due to multiple breaches of their Registrar Agreement
Mar 29
Business Startup Show 28/29 May 2009 Excel London – Astutium Stand 240
Astutium Ltd thank all the visitors to our stand at the Business Startup Show 2009. We had a great couple of days and are pleased to announce we raised £115 for the Wear it Pink Breast Cancer Campaign. If you received one of our vouchers at the show for a 100% completely free domain name, …
Jan 29
120 New Domain Types – what are they all for ?
2009 will see an explosion of new gTLD’s appearing (or at least planned) after proposals under the new ICANN guidelines – ICANN New gTLD Program – relaxed a number of the constraints. First up already announced is .paris … a city with it’s own domain type … Expect hundreds if not thousands more sponsored gTLDs …
Jan 19
GoDaddy Shuts Down “Dodgy Tactics” Division
Standard Tactics LLC, a hidden/shell company owned by registrar GoDaddy is set to close. After all the hypocrasy of Bob Parsons, CEO of GD, complaining about domain tasting and kiting, yet running his own domain tasting/cybersquatting company, GoDaddy have finally announced that their sub-company “Standard Tactics LLC” is closing, after numerous trademark infringement cases for cybersquatting. Whilst this can only be good …
Jan 01
Astutium Assigned IANA No. 1471
As part of the preparation for the launch of Astutium ICANN Accredited Domain Registry we have been assigned our official IANA Registrar Number #1471
Jan 01
The Spammers Choice – Top 3 Registrars Used By Junk Mailers Are …
All are located in China ! Xinnet Bei Gon Da Software BEIJING Networks Todaynic And joining the top 3, with guest appearances in the top 25 registrars of spamvertised domains and spammer friendly registrars are: Xiamen Ename (ENAME.CN) Beijing Innovative Linkage (DNS.COM.CN) OnlineNIC (CHINA-CHANNEL.COM) HiChina Web Solutions (NET.CN) BIZCN.COM Perhaps if the Great Firewall of China …
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