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An internationalized domain name ccTLD is reportedly getting buried because of a confusion about how many dots should appear. Armenia’s .հայ (.xn--y9a3aq) today has fewer than 300 registered domains, well under 1% of the volume enjoyed by the Lat...
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February 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.am, .xn--y9a3aq, .հայ, armenia, Domain Registries
EURid’s .eu top-level domain has hit a six-year low in terms of total registrations, and Brexit is to blame. The registry has just announced that it had 3,684,750 domains under management at the end of 2018, down 63,129 domains compared to the 3,...
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February 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Registries, eurid
Irish ccTLD .ie saw record growth in 2018 after the registry relaxed its registration rules. According to IEDR, there were 262,140 .ie domains at the end of the year, an increase of 10.4%. There were 51,040 new registrations, a 29% increase, the regist...
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January 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.ie, blacknight, Brexit, Domain Registries, IEDR
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentiall...
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November 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Registries, IANA, iis, iusn foundation, niue, one.com, postel, redelegation, worldnames
Incels.me, a web forum that hosts misogynist rants by “involuntarily celibate” men, has found a new home after .me registry doMEn suspended its domain. The web site has reappeared, apparently unscathed, under Iceland’s .is domain, at ...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
censorship, Domain Registries, domen, hate speech, incels.me
When entrepreneur Adrian McKeown started a new online makeup business, his prior knowledge of domain values lead him to acquire category killer ccTLD Makeup.co.nz. In just 2 1/2 years, it's grown to a $2.5 million business. Learn how the credibility of...
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October 15, 2018 DomainSherpa
brand strategy
The 25th highest .de sale of all time took place on Wednesday. Bad.de sold on Sedo for $138,443. Currently the domain does not resolve to a website. Here is the top 25 courtesy of Namebio kredit.de 1,169,175 USD 2008-12-02 Sedo poker.de 957,937 USD 200...
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September 6, 2018 Raymond Hackney
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Eurid has announced that Cyrillic domain names in .eu will be deleted a year from now. The registry said that it’s doing so to comply with the “no script mixing” recommendations for internationalized domain names, which are designed t...
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June 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.eu, .ею, cyrillic, Domain Registries, eurid
Facebook launched their gaming creator portal on a .GG domain. The country code for Guernsey has become popular for esports. Facebook is using the domain name FB.GG. Some background: Wikipedia info .gg is the country code top-level domain for the crown...
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June 8, 2018 Raymond Hackney
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Inquiries from domain investors are specifically barred under one registry’s take on GDPR compliance. The Austrian ccTLD registry, nic.at, yesterday stopped publishing the personal information of human registrants in its public Whois database, un...
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May 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.AT, Domain Registries, gdpr, Nic.at