Another 4 newGTLDs Now Available .coach .legal .memorial .money

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5 weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/03/another-4-newgtlds-now-available-coach-legal-memorial-money/

Another 9 newGTLDs Now Available .cricket, .cymru, .party, .science, .sydney, .vote, .voto, .wales, .yoga

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/03/another-9-newgtlds-now-available-cricket-cymru-party-science-sydney-vote-voto-wales-yoga/

Another 26 newGTLDs Now Available .archi .brussels .bzh .capetown .casa .degree .delivery .energy .eus .forsale .gent .gives .hamburg .hiv .lgbt .moe .moscow .organic .rich .ryukyu .versicherung .vlaanderen .wang .world .xn--80adxhks .xn--mgbab2bd

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/02/another-26-newgtlds-now-available-archi-brussels-bzh-capetown-casa-degree-delivery-energy-eus-forsale-gent-gives-hamburg-hiv-lgbt-moe-moscow-organic-rich-ryukyu-versicherung/

Another 4 newGTLDs Now Available .band .how .rip .space

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/01/another-4-newgtlds-now-available-band-how-rip-space/

Another 2 newGTLDs Now Available .dentist .rehab

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/01/another-2-newgtlds-now-available-dentist-rehab/

2015 Was The Year It All Changed (for EU VAT)

Upcoming VAT Changes

Effective from the 1st January 2015 there are updated European Union regulations relating to VAT on “digital services” (for example: domains, hosting, virtual/dedicated/cloud servers, voice-over-ip and internet-connectivity) for individuals and business – European Directive 2002/38/EC relating to VAT.

As of the 1st January 2015 you will be charged the VAT rate in force in your local country (country of residence) for all products and services provided by Astutium Ltd under any of our online brands.

This means that, depending on your country-of-residence, prices including VAT that you will be charged may differ from prices you have been charged previously.

  • If you are a UK individual, UK business or UK registered company – there will be no changes, UK VAT applies as usual.
  • If you are an EU based business and have a verifiable VAT number, please contact the Accounts Team to have your account updated to reflect this, and VAT will not be charged by us on your future invoices.
  • If you are based in the EU and do not have a VAT number, from 1/Jan/2015 you will be charged the VAT Rate as set by your local country. This will mean …
    • If you have a PayPal subscription – you will need to increase the amount to the new invoice totals for the higher VAT rates
    • In most cases, we will need to issue you a new invoice with a higher VAT Rate/Amount for any invoices already sent (for all invoices unpaid by 31st December 2014) – you can avoid the accounting issues and increased cost by paying the invoices now 🙂
    • Future invoices will reflect the VAT rate of your location instead of the UK VAT Rate
  • If you are based outside of the EU but in a Country/Principality controlled by an EU country (for example Gibraltar) you will be charged at the EU VAT Rate applicable to the ‘parent’ country.
  • If you are completely outside of the EU Region, you may from 1/Jan/2015 be VAT-Exempt and no longer charged VAT.

Examples of the Changes:

A client with a verified address in Greece with a Domain Name Registration will now be charged the Greek VAT (23%) instead of the UK VAT (20%)

A VAT Registered Business based in Spain with a verified VAT number will be charged 0% VAT and report locally (as now)

A client with a verified address in Australia with a Hosted Minecraft Server will no longer be charged VAT


To ensure that your VAT details on invoices are correct, please check and update your billing details by logging into the Client Portal.

Resources

Current VAT Rates

European Commission Blog Post on VAT

VIES – EU VAT Number Checker

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/12/2015-was-the-year-it-all-changed-for-eu-vat/

Another 7 newGTLDs Now Available .auction .business .immo .network .physio .pizza .software

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2014 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/12/another-7-newgtlds-now-available-auction-business-immo-network-physio-pizza-software/

Another 8 newGTLDs Now Available .click .diet .engineer .help .hosting .paris .property .quebec

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2014 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/12/another-8-newgtlds-now-available-click-diet-engineer-help-hosting-paris-property-quebec/

Withdrawal of dotBEST .BEST gTLD of BestTLD Pty Ltd

We are withdrawing from sale the gTLD .BEST / dotBEST operated by BestTLD Pty Ltd ( a company registered in Australia ) for being spammers.

BestTLD Pty Ltd, and their spamming representative Mike Deparini believe that sending out mass-automated spam emails to domain registrants and domain registrars is a form of ‘marketing’ of their #newGTLD despite it being illegal in most countries.

Unfortunately ICANN didn’t put aside any of the 185,000$ application fee of .BEST for the purchase and subsequent application of a clue-bat with which to educate the Spammers BestTLD Pty Ltd and the .best registry contract only has provisions to cancel it on a ‘felony’ not a ‘misdemeanor’

No-one wants to receive junk/spam emails.

Spammers like BestTLD Pty Ltd only care about the money they will take from you directly and indirectly.

It costs you the recipient time to notice and delete the emails.
It costs you money in wasted bandwidth/storage which you have to pay for.
It costs the the host/isp additional processing and throughput.

Spammers are simply thieves hiding behind email addresses (often faked) – the only possible benefactor of spam is the spammer, and the only way to stop spam is if everyone makes the effort to not-buy from them. EVER.

No one asked to be sent unsolicited commercial mailings from an organisation too lazy to build an actual marketing plan, instead .best operator BestTLD Pty Ltd decided to mail out to trawled-from-whois email addresses of domains with ‘best’ in them.

Want to get less spam from people like BestTLD Pty Ltd in your mailbox ?
Set your filters to auto-delete everything from:
*@toplevel.best
*@cmail2.com
*@createsend.com
And there will be one less known spammer you don’t have to deal with again.


Return-path:
Envelope-to: **//redacted//**
Delivery-date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:06:55 +0000
Received: from mx32.h.outbound.createsend.com ([204.75.142.32]:55640)
by **//redacted//** with esmtp (Exim 4.84)
(envelope-from
)
id 1XvlID-00089g-28
for **//redacted//**; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:06:55 +0000
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=cs2013; d=cmail2.com;
h=From:To:Reply-To:Date:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type:List-Unsubscribe:Sender:Message-ID; i=domains=3Dtoplevel.best@cmail2.com;
bh=O4aCVfHO0fX7heGy6GPUSfsT18Y=;
b=IW43BqiaN963U1WS/RIr198KEe98I3a0GhgicuJYQnvmqdQVMG2S6lTTMScAkLJnVPjAOBUfiD0O
IGksvPKtEiMVrMfuzZz+KBKM6p11uX5rjGDS2d5ri4FO6sx0ybIpJnjkCbQOjG+mCPDLmNs/XnYc
fpq0d3LfGGYBLnM1lqk=
From: "Mike Deparini"
To: "**//redacted//**" **//redacted//**
Reply-To: domains@toplevel.best
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:00:42 +1100
Subject: =?utf-8?Q??=
=?utf-8?Q?anthonybestdynamics.com?=
=?utf-8?Q?_-_Embrace_the_new_dotBest_Top-Level_Domain?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_=aspNetEmail=_281ddc03723b4acf89cc335aa90cd8d4"
X-Mailer: Create Send
X-Complaints-To: abuse@cmail2.com
X-Feedback-ID: CA1-r-cidoiy:LI1-r-ijlddhh:CL1-r-yhkjik:createSEND
List-Unsubscribe: ,

Sender: "Mike Deparini"
Message-ID:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2
X-Spam-Score: -11
X-Spam-Bar: -

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/12/withdrawal-of-dotbest-best-gtld-of-besttld-pty-ltd/

Astutium Ltd Acquires Web Host Zooko

London, UK – November 24, 2014 – 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 Zooko – a uk host providing cPanel based internet services to small business and individuals.

We are pleased to welcome the registrants and hosting clients from our latest acquisition Zooko. The zooko brand provided SMEs and End Users with domain registration and cpanel web hosting, so was a perfect fit for seamless integration into our existing systems.

reports Rob Golding, Head of M+A’s for Astutium.

After careful planning the company migrated the existing Zooko hosting accounts onto a new server on the Astutium London Docklands network, so clients gained the benefits of fully redundant high-performance connectivity to SSD powered cPanel/WHM servers.

All Zooko clients now have the advantages of dealing directly with the actual provider of the services (rather than a chain of resellers), plus as an ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar we’ve been able to make their domain renewals much cheaper.

The completed integration grants users access to ‘Unified’ – the online Astutium Client Portal – allowing for realtime management of web hosting accounts, domain registrations, virtual private servers, dedicated servers, colocation and cloud-servers from one single location.

All clients now have the assurance that their emails and websites are online at a host with a 17+ year proven track record of uptime and quality in-house support.

About Astutium
Since 1996 the team behind Astutium.com have been on a mission to help individuals and businesses succeed online.
Astutium take pride in offering a complete range of reliable cost-effective services, backed up by in-house 24/7 technical support and using the latest technologies.

Customers in over 150 countries rely on Astutium’s easy-to-use online tools for domain registration, web hosting, 1-click software installs, virtual private/dedicated servers, colocation and cloud services to power more than 100,000 websites – including individuals, bloggers, publishers, creatives, business of all sizes and web hosts – find out more about us at www.astutium.com

Press Coverage:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2014/11/astutium-ltd-acquires-web-host-zooko/

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