George Pongas is the general manager for Aus Registry, AusRegistry is the current registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au (Australia) domain names including .com.au and .net.au, and non commercial domain names .gov.au and edu.au. He recently posted something on the Aus Registry website with regards to 2013 being a good year for .au domains. He makes mention of the new … [Read more...]
.CN Landrush exceeds 50 Million Yuan
NiceNic.net out with another interesting piece of news, the .CN Landrush auctions of previous reserved domains has generated over 50 Million Yuan/RMB. That equates to over $8.2 million They posted today: As of Jan 12th, 2014, the open auction of previously-reserved .CN domain names by CNNIC entered into heating-up period, and the total price of recent auctions already exceeded 50 million … [Read more...]
Domain Name Game.Cn Sells For a Record $511,000
According to nicenic.net,the domain name Game.CN sold for $511,972.38. .Cn is the ccTLD for China. According to the story, the domain was a previously reserved .CN domain name Game.CN which was in a public auction, which ended in bidding 3.098 million cny," with intensive competition of 686 bids in the last hour". ""That Game.cn broke three million refreshed .CN open bidding history, also … [Read more...]
Indonesia will roll out shorter .id Domains Next Year
TechInAsia.com reported that the country code for Indonesia will be getting shorter. From the article: Next year, Indonesians will have to get used to a brand-new ending to web addresses that sounds really short and sweet. It’ll be ‘.id’. The new domain ending will go on sale as early as January 20. The domain name was approved a couple days ago by the highest internet domain name authority in … [Read more...]
With 20 Million Domain Registration, The Registry Behind .TK Raises $3 Million In Funding
Freenom who is the registry for the .TK which is the ccTLD of Tokelau, which offers free domain names has closed a $3 million Series A funding round led by Kima Ventures. Freenom is headquartered in Amsterdam runs the .TK registry which is the second most registered domain name extension in the world with over 20,000,000 domain name registrations. Only .com has more domain name … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com Warns Customers That .Vg & .Tc Domains May Not Be Renewed & Will Be Costly
In any email Godaddy.com warns customers that they might not be able to renew .VG domain names or .TC domain names. If they are able to renew them they are not going to be cheap "We previously told you about a dispute at the .TC and .VG domain name registries." "We have already suspended new .TC and .VG registrations because of complications at the registry, and we may have issues … [Read more...]
Nominate Approves .Uk Domain Names; .co.uk Holders to Get 1st Shot
Nominet the company that runs the .UK ccTLD on behalf of the United Kindom announced today that it was going ahead with its controversial plan to domain go launch the shorter .uk domain name not only to compete with all the thousands of new gTLD's most notably .London, but to bring the UK into line with other European countries such as France (.fr), Germany (.de) and Ireland (.ie) Nominet … [Read more...]