Starting from today Domain Names are able to registered addresses in targeted/specific/additional newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains). Today sees the general availability of the first 7 newGTLDs: .bike .clothing .guru .holdings .plumbing .singles .ventures with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014’s weekly newGTLD roll-out. As of now the internet domain name systems are …
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Jan 31 2014
newGTLDs – Protecting Your Brand and Trademark Infographic
ICANN have published an infographic for their favourite overlords – IP Rights Holders. This provides some detail/information regarding trademarks and the new policies/procedures/acronyms TM holders can use in the newGTLD world. They have of course missed several vital pieces of the puzzle off the graphics, the least of which is to inform you that every …
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Jan 08 2014
.eu extends to Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway
As of today, residents, companies and organisations based in Iceland (IS), Liechtenstein (LI) and Norway (NO) will be eligible to register domain names under the .EU top level domain Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway now allowed to register EU domains Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have had close economic ties with the European Union since the Community’s …
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Jan 01 2014
Astutium Ltd Acquires Greek Hosts and Registrars
London, UK – January 1, 2014 – For immediate release. Astutium Ltd ( www.astutium.com ), a UK based established leader in European Business and Enterprise Web Hosting, announced today the completed acquisition and integration of 3 Greek Web Hosting Organisations and Domain Registrars : * Ultranet Web Solutions (ultranet.gr) * HostGreece (hostgreece.net) * UFastHost (ufasthost.com) …
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Nov 25 2013
Astutium Ltd Acquires Cyberstrider
London, UK – November 25, 2013 – For immediate release. Astutium Ltd ( www.astutium.com ), an established leader in UK business and enterprise web hosting for over a decade, announced today the completed acquisition and integration of Cyberstrider – a host specialising in providing cPanel based internet services to business. “We are excited to have …
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Oct 13 2013
DotGreen Community Inc pull out of New GTLD Application for .green
DotGreen Community Inc. have decided to pull out of the running for the contended (multiple applicant) new gtld .GREEN. Ultimately it simply boils down to not having (or not wanting to spend) enough money – something affecting a number of gtld applicants – as it’s always been known that contended strings will go to the …
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Sep 10 2013
New TLD .africa.com now available for registrations at astutium.com
Great news ! Astutium Ltd are now an accredited registrar for the new .africa.com subdomains The latest CentralNIC TLD .africa.com is now available for registration at the Astutium Domain Registration website Unlike most African ccTLDs, .africa.com is open to all registrants – providing opportunity to target global citizens wishing to connect with Africa as well …
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Aug 11 2013
Swedish Registry (dotSE) takes over running .nu (dotNU) ccTLD
At the end of August 2013 the Swedish Registry IIS.SE will take over the running of the registry services for .nu from WorldNames. All currently registered .nu domain names will be managed by IIS who already operate the registry for .se New domain registrations, transfers, renewals and updates for .NU will continue to be available …
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Aug 05 2013
NameSpace Collisions de-railing new gTLDS
August 5 2013 ICANN published the results of a study examining the consequences of ‘name space collisions’ between applied-for and non-delegated Top Level Domains. http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-05aug13-en.htm Details and the public comment information can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/name-collision-05aug13-en.htm The study divided strings into three categories based on risk: Low risk Uncalculated risk High risk Two TLDs come …
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May 23 2013
ICANN De-Accredits Dotted Ventures (IANA#833)
ICANN the managing authority for all gTLDs has removed the accreditation from Dotted Ventures Inc. (Dotted Ventures) [ www.dottedventures.com ] (accredited since 7 December 2009). The termination is due to Dotted Ventures’s failure to timely cure the policy breaches by 14 May 2013 as set forth in ICANN’s various notice of breach pursuant to Section 3.9 of …
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