Recent domain name news from the last week: 87% of firms want one-letter '.co.uk' domain names Nearly nine in ten (87 percent) of UK businesses are in favour of one- or two-letter domain names, says Nominet. The UK domain name registry announced in March it was considering making short domain names available from June 1st. However, Nominet said its Policy Advisory Body (PAB)…
Posted: June 3rd, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: Zone File Glitch Shuts Down Millions of .DE Domains According to TLD Source and The Register large parts of the .DE zone file went missing from 1:30 pm to roughly 2:50 pm. The error shut down potentially over 13 million domains names tied to websites and email addresses using the German domain name extension. Speculation…
Posted: May 21st, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: First non-Latin top level domains go live, says ICANN The internet's first top level domains that use non-Latin characters are now in use. The domains are the result of reform by the body responsible for the internet's addressing systems. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has changed the addressing system it…
Posted: May 14th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: First non-Latin country domains approved by ICANN ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the first four country-code domain names written in non-Latin script. All existing top-level domain names are written using the 'Latin' alphabet, the 26 letters from A to Z. That system is fine for internet users in…
Posted: April 29th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: Police back down over MyPolice.org domain name The Government's police inspectorate has backed down after protests from social media activists over its choice of name for a new website. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) had unveiled plans for a project called MyPolice.org.uk. But the name was already being used by a project started in…
Posted: April 15th, 2010 Read More →
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