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 David Goldstein
ICANN is finally taking steps to figure out what to do if a registry fails says Larry Seltzer in eWeek. Seltzer writes that ICANN is looking at what would happen when one of the critical infrastructure providers on the internet, such as VeriSign, were to fail. The article gives a background and says that while gTLD operators established a Registry Failure Task Force in 2001 to look into this question, nothing much happened until last year. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but the article notes interest in the issue rose again upon the failure of RegisterFly. … 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 David Goldstein
Request For Information: ICANN Seeks Expressions of Interest from Registrars to Receive Bulk Transfer of Names from De-Accredited Registrar #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com
As the result of the de-accreditation of #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com (IANA ID 101), ICANN is seeking Statements of Interest from ICANN-accredited registrars that are interested in assuming sponsorship of the gTLD names that had been managed by #1 Domain Names International, Inc. dba 1dni.com. … 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 22nd, 2008 by David Goldstein
LACTLD, the association for ccTLD managers in the Latin American and Caribbean region, has appointed Erick Iriarte Ahon to theposition of their General Manager. … more
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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 20th, 2008 by Michael Lawrence
One of my domain names was registered long ago with Network Solutions. Network Solutions charges several times as much per year for registrations as other registrars, so of course I want to transfer away. Hah. But I’m told at times it’s the wrong time of year to make the transfer.
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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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July 18th, 2008 by David Goldstein
GoDaddy has been having problems with the commencement of .me registrations this week, with many potential registrants supposedly successfully going through the registration process only to find they subsequently receive an email advising them their registration has failed. … more
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July 18th, 2008 by David Goldstein
.it, the Italian ccTLD, has passed 1.5 million registrations. .it is the fifth ccTLD in Europe and the seventh in the world to reach this milestone. Today there are more than 1,553,000 names registered. … more
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