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| 08-07-08 |
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.ES |
One million .ES domains registered
 Spanish Minister for commerce will attend a ceremony celebrating this milestone for Spain's Internet next week, in Madrid.
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| 08-07-08 |
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.ME |
30,000 .ME registrations
 Montenegro's new Internet suffix has drawn 30,000 registrations during the initial part of its launch, the Sunrise for trademark holders and the Landrush.
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| 08-07-07 |
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.PRO |
.PRO re-launch date changed to September 8, 2008
 In September, new registration regulations will give professionals the world over access to .PRO. We talk to RegistryPro Director of Operations Matt Buckland about the .PRO re-launch and the way new registration requests will be authenticated.
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| 08-07-01 |
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ICANN |
Mexico chosen for March 2009 ICANN meeting
 After Cairo at the end of the year, ICANN has just announced that Mexico City will be the venue for its first international meeting of 2009.
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| 08-06-30 |
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ICANN |
New TLD primer
 How much, how soon, how to apply? Let ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush and ICANN CEO Paul Twomey be your guides for new TLDs that are set to shake up the Internet.
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| 08-06-23 |
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.TEL |
.TEL launch dates released
 Telnic chose the Paris ICANN meeting to disclose the definitive launch timetable for .TEL.
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| 08-06-21 |
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ICANN |
An interview with GAC chairman Janis Klarklins
 On the eve of a crucial meeting for ICANN, the chairman of its Governmental Advisory Committee tells us what he expects the Paris meeting's main topics of discussion will be.
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| 08-06-19 |
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.PRO |
PRO celebrates first ever French registrar
 The .PRO domain is set to open up to prospective registrants worldwide. As part of its drive towards greater international presence, the PRO registry has just announced its first registrar in France.
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| 08-06-16 |
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ICANN |
ICANN meeting shuttle service is go!
 Next week's Paris meeting will see a new initiative launched: a free shuttle service designed to help meeting attendees get to a selection of must-see places distributed around the meeting venue.
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| 08-06-05 |
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.EU |
EURid launching ad campaign and IDNs
 The .EU registry will run a new advertising campaign in selected European countries at the end of June and is working on introducing accented domains next year.
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| 08-05-29 |
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ICANN |
European representation grows in ICANN's Registrars Constituency
 Two European registrars, including INDOM, have just been elected to serve on the four-person Executive Committee of ICANN's Registrars Constituency.
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| 08-05-26 |
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.PRO |
.PRO goes worldwide this July
 New rules opening .PRO to a much greater number of professionals are to be introduced on July 14th.
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| 08-05-22 |
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ICANN |
New gTLDs discussed at INTA meeting
 The International Trademark Association's 130th meeting closed yesterday in Berlin. Domain names were once again a major topic, with ICANN invited to speak about new gTLDs and IDNs.
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| 08-05-19 |
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.ASIA |
The strange case of the .ASIA auctions
 Both .ASIA auction operator Pool and registry DotAsia have had to go into major damage control after being accused of rigging the auction process.
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| 08-05-13 |
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EVENTS |
INTA meeting in Berlin this week
 The International Trademark Association is holding its 130th annual meeting in Berlin starting this weekend.
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| 08-05-12 |
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.ORG |
.ORG price increase
 .ORG registry PIR has sent accredited registrars notification of a November 2008 price increase.
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| 08-05-08 |
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.KN |
.KN changing hands
 Currently managed by the University of Puerto Rico, the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis' Internet suffix will soon have a new registry.
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| 08-05-07 |
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.PRO |
ICANN okays .PRO derestriction
 The suffix for professionals has ICANN's green light to make itself more accessible to a higher number of professionals.
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| 08-05-01 |
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.ES |
Spanish Registry takes aim at phishing sites
 ESNIC to introduce anti-phishing procedure which includes possible deletion of domains used for phishing attacks.
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| 08-04-29 |
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.ES |
Spain to reach a million domains this summer
 Spain now has 925,000 domains and should reach the physchologically important million this summer.
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| 08-04-28 |
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.BR |
Brazil to open domain for individuals
 On May 1, 2008, .COM.BR will be opened up to individuals. Up until then, priori rights holders may carry out priority registrations to protect those rights.
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| 08-04-24 |
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.ENG |
England wants its own domain
 An online petition has been launched to convince ICANN to sanction a .ENG suffix for England.
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| 08-04-24 |
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.CN |
Chinese registry clarifies transfer rules
 The Chinese registry is determined to ensure that local registrars do not block their customers wishing to transfer names away.
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| 08-04-15 |
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.CO |
.CO heading for 2010 launch
 Following a common trend, Columbia plans to open its Top Level Domain for registrations. The local government has just released a tentative launch schedule.
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| 08-04-15 |
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NEWS |
Dollars.com set to make lots of euros
 Auction watching is getting to be a great sport these days. After the fun pizza.com that makes its previous owner's fortune, a new hot sale is coming: Dollars.com
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| 08-04-15 |
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.DE |
12 million .DE domains
 Domain names are proving as popular as ever in Germany, with the 12th million .DE domain being registered on April 14.
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| 08-04-10 |
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.ASIA |
.ASIA adding 5,000 domains a day
 .ASIA opened to all on March 26. We have the first official post-launch stats for Asia's new Internet domain.
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| 08-04-10 |
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ICANN |
ICANN Paris agenda released
 ICANN has just published the agenda for the Paris meeting.
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| 08-04-08 |
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.EU |
Dot EU is two years old!
 Two years ago, on April 7 2006, Europe's domain opened for all. Today, it totals more than 2.8 million registered names. According to the European commission, it's become a distinct European identity.
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| 08-04-07 |
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DOMAIN TASTING |
.BIZ and INFO's anti-tasting measures okayed
 ICANN has just approved modifications requested a few weeks ago by the .BIZ and .INFO registries to limit domain tasting. From now on, no registrar will be able to freely delete more than 10% of the names it registers monthly.
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