Recent domain name news from the last week: Nominet consults on short .uk domain names Nominet has announced a three-month consultation to decide how it should release one-letter, two-letter and single-number domains for registration. The organisation, which owns the national registry for all .uk domain names ending .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk, is currently unable to offer the short domains owing to the rules…
Posted: March 11th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: UK domain gets DNS Security Protocol protection Internet registry Nominet has begun introducing DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, a security protocol that should help protect the UK's domain-name system from malicious misdirections. On Monday, the company began applying the protocol to the top-level .uk domain. DNSSEC, also known as encrypted DNS, uses digital signatures to…
Posted: March 4th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: Number Of Domain Names Registered Approaching 200 Million Verisign has revealed that around 11 million domain names were registered during the last quarter of 2009 pushing the total number of domain name registrations to 192 million, 25 years after dotcom domain names were released. The details were published as part of the Domain Name Industry…
Posted: February 25th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: ICANN fails to trace quarter of website owners More than three-quarters of Internet domain registrants have incomplete, invalid or false names. And 22 percent of website owners proved to be impossible to trace. That's according to a survey conducted by the University of Chicago on behalf of Internet registry agency ICANN which looked at…
Posted: February 18th, 2010 Read More →
Recent domain name news from the last week: Nominet launches UK awards for internet innovation Nominet has announced the launch of its 2010 Internet Awards, formerly known as the Best Practice Challenge. The registry firm, which manages more than eight million .uk URLs, is looking for submissions from individuals and organisations in the public, private and charity sectors in five areas: getting…
Posted: February 11th, 2010 Read More →
Save 50% on selected domain registrations when you use the promo code March50
Follow us on Twitter here
Posting tweet...
