| =========================================== mailto:lcnews@lowcostnames.co.uk =========================================== vol. 2/issue 002 _ ____ _ _ (TM) | | | __| | \ | | _____ _____ | | | | | \| |/ _ \ \ /\ / / __| | |___ | |__ | |\ | __/\ V V /\__ \ |_____| |____| |_| \_|\___| \_/\_/ |___/ =========================================== 02-02-2002 http://www.lowcostnames.co.uk =========================================== ------------------------------------------- Dear $fname this newsletter is being sent to you as you are a customer of Low Cost Names (LCN). The newsletter contains important information about the services provided to you. Please do not reply to this newsletter directly. You can view previous issues of this newsletter at: http://www.lowcostnames.co.uk/lcnews This newsletter may be freely redistributed by email in its unedited form. Please do share it with others! ------------------------------------------- ########################################### # # # IN THIS ISSUE... # # # # - .me.uk Top Level Domains Available # # # ########################################### ------------------------------------------- IT'S YOUR NEWSLETTER! ______________________ We are always looking for ways to improve our service, if you have any comments or questions about the newsletter, why not e-mail us at: mailto:lcnews@lowcostnames.co.uk. ------------------------------------------- ########################################### # - .me.uk Top Level Domain extensions # # NOW available at LCN # ########################################### 2001 saw the launch of .info, .biz and the .name TLDs but it has not stopped there. An overwhelming majority of the members of the U.K.'s national registry Nominet, voted for the creation of the new .me.uk. No other second-level domain (SLD) has been added to the U.K. domain name space since Nominet was founded in 1996. The organization said in a statement "By lunchtime on Monday we had 1,300 me.uk registrations. If you compare that to the number of co.uk names registered, this is quite high and demonstrates the interest in this new SLD." The first me.uk name registered was lucas.me.uk. Before now, Internet addresses ending in .uk were largely used by businesses; co.uk is the most popular SLD in the U.K. Other SLDs in use include gov.uk (government), ac.uk (academic establishments) and org.uk (nonprofit organizations). Me.uk domains are registered on a first come, first served basis. The registration fee starts at £60 plus vat, but will gradually be lowered over the coming six months to come inline with the other .uk SLDs. "The initial high price is intended to discourage cybersquatters from registering domain names in bulk," Nominet said. A Nominet spokeswoman said "We have no strong evidence of cybersquatters, but quite a few of the generic names have been registered, things like text.me.uk. However, at the moment it is a good mix of people's names and generic names,". Those names you wanted that were taken in the .com and .co.uk could now be available in the brand new .me.uk. but demand is likely to be high so get them while you can. ------------------------------------------- LCN would like to thank you in advance for your continued support. Kind regards LCN Team =========================================== =========================================== TO SUBSCRIBE ____________ Simply go to: http://www.lowcostnames.co.uk/sub.asp?subtype=subscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE ______________ Simply go to: http://www.lowcostnames.co.uk/sub.asp?subtype=unsubscribe ******************************************* (c) copyright 2002 by LowCostNames.co.uk All rights reserved. http://www.lowcostnames.co.uk ******************************************* |