Archive for June, 2012
The New Domain Extensions – Another ploy to get your cash
TweetWell here we go again! The new domain get rich quick ploy. It is amazing to me that anyone with $185,000 and a good lawyer can apply to get their own domain name extension. That’s great if you hundreds of millions of dollars to build brand awareness in the years after receiving the approval. The [...]
Rwanda: Domain Name .rw Soon to Be Held By Rwanda
TweetIf there’s one thing that’s giving intense headaches to Rwanda, a country that’s determined to become the regional ICT hub by 2020, is the fact that its country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) name (.rw) is still in the hands of an individual — a foreign citizen to put it right. “It’s shameful that our country’s ccTLD [...]
Legal Dispute Over Use Of CO.NO As Means For Foreigners To Register Norwegian Domains
TweetNorid, the .NO registry, is investigation a legal dispute over co.no, which is being used as a means of entering the Norwegian domain name market for foreigners, something they are currently unable to do under Norid’s terms and conditions. The lawsuit about co.no concerns whether it in real terms has been illegally transferred, and whether [...]
U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns
Tweet FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns a House committee that Google, iTunes, Facebook, and Netflix could face new international taxes. (Credit: U.S. House of Representatives) Democratic and Republican government officials warned this morning that a United Nations summit in December will lead to a virtual takeover of the Internet if proposals from China, Russia, Iran, [...]
Google spends over $9-million dollars on new TLDs
TweetLast month, Google told Ad Age that it was poised to go on a web-domain buying spree. Today, thecompany announced in a blog post some of the specific top-level domains it is applying for and the general categories they fall into. Among the top-level domains (the part of a web address to the right of the dot) [...]
