August 5th, 2008 by 
David Goldstein
The .ME Registry announced today it has registered more than 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes a little more than two weeks after opening for live, real-time registrations by the general public and less than four months after opening its doors. … more
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August 5th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
ME Registry announced today it has registered more than 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes a little more than two weeks after opening for live, real-time registrations by the general public and less than four months after opening its doors.
“We believe the huge demand for .ME reflects the public’s interest in having a personal connection with the Web,” said Predrag Lesic, the registry’s executive director. “From interesting topics, to organization names, to brands, .ME sites give personality to the content on the Web sites associated with them.”
More than 100 registrars currently offer .ME domains through their registration platform. .ME has seen its greatest interest among English speaking countries including the United States (71%), the United Kingdom (6%), Canada (4%), and Australia (2%).
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August 4th, 2008 by David Goldstein
SGNIC has announced a promotion for the month of August as part of the nation’s 43rd birthday with the cost of .sg domain names capped at SGD$5 or less. … more
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July 31st, 2008 by Chloe Li
Instra Corporation, a world leading domain provider is proud to be one of the first registrars accredited with the .ae Domain Administration (aeDA), the new registry operator of the .AE domain namespace.
aeDA has officially announced 3rd Aug 2008 as the official launch date of their Registry-Registrar Domain Name System, … more
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July 30th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
Having a domain name which has been penalised or delisted by search engines in the past can damage rankings, an article has revealed.
Talking to Practical Ecommerce, Chris Stump from Onlyhammocks.com revealed that despite months of search engine optimisation just a few of his hundreds of pages had been indexed by Yahoo!, Google and MSN, and those were appearing well down in search rankings.
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July 28th, 2008 by David Goldstein
A report from Google has counted there are more than one trillion unique URLs, as opposed to domain names, reports IDG. Google openly admit they do not index every one of these pages “many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content … that isn’t very useful to searchers,” wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers in Google’s Web Search Infrastructure Team. … more
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July 28th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
London, United Kingdom — The internet’s latest and most personal domain extension has seen huge popularity after public launch. At 4pm (GMT) July 17 the public were given the opportunity to register the new .ME domain name extension. Over 5,500 .ME domain names were registered within the first two days of public launch by UK accredited registrars, making it the second most popular registration country, second only to the US. … more
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July 24th, 2008 by David Goldstein
As previously announced on 27 June 2008, Nominet is changing the DRS Policy and Procedure, together with bringing the DRS process into their online services. … more
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July 24th, 2008 by David Goldstein
NIC Mexico, the registry for Mexico’s ccTLD, has announced changes to its programme for registrars and is releasing new tools to allow for a greater number of registrars worldwide. There are also changes that affect all .mx domain names, current and future. … more
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July 23rd, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
Former Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) domain manager Carolyn Gudmundson pleaded guilty to submitting false expense claims for buying and registering domain names to the tune of $1 million, according to sentencing records from the U.S. District Court in Seattle.
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July 22nd, 2008 by David Goldstein
Throughout the month of July, two-letter .gp (the Guadeloupe ccTLD) domain names can be purchased for the same price as a regular .gp domain name. … more
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July 21st, 2008 by David Goldstein
Changes have occurred to the eligibility requirements for .tr domain names. The new changes are as follows: … more
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July 21st, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
It could be just a coincidence, but a firm associated with top leaders of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential advance team bought the Web site domain name HRC2012.Com on June 8, according to Marc Ambinder of TheAtlantic.com.
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July 21st, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
The team’s owners aren’t commenting, and they, along with a couple head honchos at the NBA’s office, are the only souls who know what the nickname will be. The ones in the know are sworn to secrecy, and most are dutifully, if not masterfully, abiding by that oath.
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July 19th, 2008 by David Goldstein
NIC Brazil lifted the ANATEL license requirement for the registration of AM.br, FM.br and TV.br domain names as of July 1, 2008. … more
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