Category Archive: sTLDs – Sponsored TLDs

Feb 14

Hosting.com rebrands to just Hosting

Genius idea or rebranding mistake ? According to a news piece on their website hosting.com have just rebranded to the shortened name of … Hosting When Overstock rebranded as O.CO I thought – yeah – I can see that working for them – especially as a lot of what they sell now isn’t overstock as …

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Jan 16

Top 12 for ’12 Promotion

2012 is going to be an exciting year for Domain Names in general, and Astutium in particular – new datacentre space available, new product launches coming, the new ICANN gTLD/sTLD program – all in January ! To kick off 2012 we are offering … 20% off our 12 most popular domain TLDs at Astutium.com Domain …

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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 …

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Oct 13

All Change At .Mobi

The founder of dotMobi – the company behind the first mTLD (mobile TLD) – stepped down last week, to spend time with his family. Neil Edwards returns back to the US from Dublin where .mobi was based to pursue other projects, having successfully taken the idea behind a non-geographic domain extension from concept through launch. Despite …

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