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

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

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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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

AusRegistry International, a wholly owned subsidiary of AusRegistry, the Registry Operator for all commercial and non-commercial .au domain names (including .com.au and .gov.au), went live in the United Arab Emirates providing the Registry Software Services for the .ae ccTLD on August 3. … more

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

The 2008 publication of the Macau Information and Communications Technology Survey which was released this week showed that the internet penetration rate has increased sharply, but experts said local internet resources were still weak.
Published by the University of Macau’s (UM) Macau Internet Research Project, the survey reported that as of the end of 2007, the local penetration rate of internet reached 64 percent in which the “digital divide index” continued on the fall from 0.32 in 2006 to 0.28 in 2007.

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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

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

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

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

Changes have occurred to the eligibility requirements for .tr domain names. The new changes are as follows: … more

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

.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

Recently i have acquired a brochure from .AUDA and it goes through the policies of selling your .COM.AU domain name. So if you are looking at selling your .COM.AU on the aftermarket here is a few rules and regulations that you might want to read before going ahead.

They go through the usual policies then the key elements of selling your domain.

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