The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020 at midnight (CET). After full ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement, the UK and the EU entered into the so-called “transition period”. This time-limited period …
Read More »The world map using country code domains
Nominet created a world map using the number of registrations of country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) to represent the size of the respective country. Countries are in the right places, but not of the …
Read More ».EU domain extension continues to shrink in Q3
EURid released its EURid’s Q3 2019 Progress Report, sharing its quarterly statistics and developments. Total registrations decreased from 3 623 691 at the end of Q2 to 3 617 536 at the end of Q3 …
Read More »Nominet wants feedback on 3 .UK issues
Nominet announced a new .UK Policy Consultation, inviting feedback from all interested stakeholders. The .UK policies provide the framework of principles for the .UK namespace. They are developed in consultation with a wide variety of …
Read More »Nominet increases .uk prices
Nominet announced that following the annual review of pricing, the wholesale cost for a .UK domain registration or renewal will change to £3.90 per year from 13 January 2020. Nominet claims that “the 15p per …
Read More ».EU domain extension is shrinking
EURid released its 2019 Quarterly Progress Report. .EU is shrinking ending Q2 2019 with 3,623,691 domain registrations. The extension had 3,790,450 domains ending Q2 2018. But you will not find this number comparison in the …
Read More ».UK domain name complaints drop
Nominet released the 2018 annual summary of domain name disputes brought before its Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). The total number of domain names that were subject to DRS Complaints in 2018 was 763, which represents …
Read More »Owners of .eu domain names in United Kingdom may keep their domains after BREXIT
On 18 July 2019, the European Commission published an updated notice to stakeholders about the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (BREXIT) and EU rules on .eu domain names. The notice highlights that at the time …
Read More »Neustar to operate .us extension until 2029
Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it awarded to Neustar a contract to continue operating the .us registry for 10 more years. The announcement says that Neustar will continue to operate the .us …
Read More »41,459 .uk domains registered in stage one of the release
Stage one of the unclaimed .uk domains release ended and 1,793,701 domains were made available to the public via participating registrars. In the first week, 41,459 of those .uk domains were registered. That is 2.26% …
Read More »Trending domain name keywords: Libra, Psychedelic, Snafu, Casino, Bet
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. …
Read More »Domain name Viajes.es sells for €147.000
The domain name Viajes.es sold for €147.000 that is about $165,000 USD. The domain name was registered in 2005. The buyer is not yet known. The sale took place at Sedo. .ES is the ccTLD …
Read More »1,835,159 unclaimed .uk domain names to be released
1,835,159 unclaimed .uk domain names will be released in the next few days. UK domain registrants with a third-level domain (.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .plc.uk or .ltd.uk) had until 06:00 BST (UTC+1) on Tuesday, 25th …
Read More »UK registrars angry with Nominet
More than 15 UK registrars are angry with Nominet’s proposed .uk right of registration (ROR) release process planned for 1st July – 5th July 2019. Over 3 million remaining .uk rights are set to be …
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