Country Code TLDs

Following a public consultation, the Minister of Business and Growth has decided to extend DIFO’s permission to be registry for the .dk domain names. Since 1999, Danish Internet Forum (DIFO) has had the license to …

ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England, the redelegation of the .GW domain representing Guinea-Bissau. Kuo-Wei Wu introduced the agenda …

.UK domains were launched by Nominet on the 10th of June. Today Nominet announced that these new, short .uk domains have passed the 100,000 registrations milestone, contributing to the biggest-selling month Nominet – the internet …

A survey of more than 3,000 Australians has found .au domain name registrations are on the rise, with 76% of all domain name holders choosing .au, an increase of 2% on last year. The survey …

I received an email from a reader called Gao Tianyong from Beijing describing his horror story dealing with the .ng registry. .NG is the ccTLD for Nigeria. The reader is not a native English speaker …

On July 1, Neustar will become one of the first country-code top-level domains to implement the usTLD Rapid Suspension Procedure (“usRS”). Although this new mechanism has been introduced with the new generic top-level domains approved …

Norway’s .NO domain is available for registration to private individuals as of today, June 17 2014. Starting on 17 June, everyone in Norway can register their own domain name directly within .no. On this date …

Within 24 hours of opening for registration, new, short .uk web domains topped the sales charts. More than 50,000 domains were registered, making this one of the fastest selling new domain releases on record, and …

From yesterday, new, short .uk web domains are available alongside .co.uk for the first time ever, with British icon and tech enthusiast Stephen Fry the first person to make the switch. As one of the …

From 10 June 2014, shorter, simpler .uk domain names will be available for the first time. There’s no need to worry though, all existing domains including .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk will continue to run as …

There is a .CO.UK auction at Sedo starting today. The auction features 116 .co.uk domains such as it.co.uk, queen.co.uk, prince.co.uk, paint.co.uk and url.co.uk. All domain names have reserves that are up to the 50,000 – 99,999 GBP …

EURid has been confirmed as the registry manager of the .eu top-level domain for the next five years, with the European Commission Decision (2014/207/EU), published in the Official Journal of the European Union (L109). “We …

The Italian Registry (.it) Registro.it have published their ‘Yearbook 2013’ covering the events of the Registry over 2013.  Click to open the Yearbook. Quarter.it is born, the first quarterly report by .it Registry, with the …

The .VG zone has been re-delegated to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Virgin Islands (TRC). This re-delegation is related to the dispute with the former registry operator Meridian TLD that operated the .VG registry without …