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Industry News Summary – Week 11

Recent domain name news from the last week:

Dotcom turned 25 on Monday

Twenty five years ago last monday, the first dotcom name was registered by Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1985, a further five companies jumped on the dotcom bandwagon, which travelled at a snail’s pace – it took 12 years for the one millionth dotcom domain name to be registered.

This was largely because the web wasn’t popularised until Netscape’s Mosaic web browser was introduced in April 1993. Today, more than 668,000 dotcom domains are registered each month and…

Posted: March 18th, 2010 By: tan Read More →

Hosting Platform Upgrade – Support Updates

The LCN.com hosting platform was replaced last weekend by a brand new platform. Unfortunately, with all new server upgrades there are some teething problems which may have caused you some disruption to your service. LCN.com would like to apologise for any inconvenience you may have encountered but we would like to reassure you…

Posted: March 17th, 2010 By: Perry Read More →

Industry News Summary – Week 10

Recent domain name news from the last week: Nominet consults on short .uk domain names Nominet has announced a three-month consultation to decide how it should release one-letter, two-letter and single-number domains for registration. The organisation, which owns the national registry for all .uk domain names ending .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk, is currently unable to offer the short domains owing to the rules…

Posted: March 11th, 2010 By: tan Read More →

An Introduction to Basic HTML

HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms.It is…

Posted: March 10th, 2010 By: Wayne Read More →

Current Domain and Hosting Offers

Get incredible domain and hosting discounts this week with our current LCN.com offers. We have half price domains and a promo code to help you save £24 pound when you choose our new unlimited hosting package. Read on to find out how you can make these great savings... 50% Off Domain Names! Protect your brand, start a new business, or ensure visitors can find…

Posted: March 5th, 2010 By: Barry Read More →