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Network Solutions sees record domain registrations
News The United States led the world in registrations, with California and New York leading the states.
[January 12, 1999, 17:05]
Proof-Reading.com Boosts Registrations 36% Upon Switching to VeriSign Secured Seal
White Papers The company wanted to increase number of online registrations and overcome customers' security fears. Proof-Reading.com achieved a 36% increase in registrations when it switched to the VeriSign Secured Seal due to its industry-best name recognition.
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
News Burst: CallNet buckles, suspends registrations
News The registration page states the following: "Due to exceedingly high demand for registrations, BT have asked us to suspend registrations whilst they upgrade capacity. On its first day, just hours after its launch, CallNet has admitted it is not...
[November 1, 1999, 10:50]
Registrations open for .tel domains
News Once .tel goes public, the spokesperson said, registrations will be roughly equivalent in price to other TLDs, such as .com or .org. The .tel top-level domain was opened up for trademark-owner registration on Wednesday.
[December 3, 2008, 16:47]
Greasemonkey Hacks: Bypass Annoying Site Registrations
White Papers Many online newspapers require one to register with the site before being able to read online articles. This registration is annoying, invasive, and a serious privacy risk. Several newspaper publishing companies have been caught selling their...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Which regulations would apply for .SEX or .APPLE registrations? ANY ?!?!
Talkback Let's say the Apple Computer company registered .apple -- does that mean that Apple Computer could approve or deny the registration of an applicant who is an apple farmer? Would apple farmers perhaps have to buy Apple computers to register a .apple...
[June 25, 2008, 9:21]
'Cybersquatters' face domain eviction
News Network Solutions Inc.which has an exclusive government contract to register Internet addresses, recently purged 18,000 registrations that it suspected were held by speculators, who typically register thousands of names at once.
[April 6, 1999, 9:06]
Domain-name registration hits record high
News Domain-name buying is back in fashion once again - with registrations picking up to levels last seen in 2000. The number of registrations for the first quarter of this year shows 21 percent growth year-on-year.
[June 9, 2004, 12:00]
Britons get .me.uk domain
News The .me.uk second-level domain (SLD) opened for registrations on Monday morning, following a strong vote of approval by the UK's national registry Nominet on Friday night. Registrations for the new domain names will be awarded on a first come...
[January 14, 2002, 11:03]
The incredible shrinking Internet
News The number of sites on the Internet has slipped along with a recent decline in registrations of addresses ending in domains such as .com, according to a study released this week. Netcraft attributed last month's drop to the decline in new domain...
[January 3, 2002, 9:32]
.Info registry stuck in traffic
News Real-time registrations of .info domain names hit a brick wall on their second day out and are on hold pending the resolution of technical problems. Afilias, the company administering the new top-level domain, said the system for new registrations...
[October 3, 2001, 10:57]
Gold rush expected for .eu sunrise period
News The sunrise period designed to give European trademark owners first pick at relevant .eu domain names is expected to attract a gold rush of registrations not seen since the days of the dot-com boom. We will have more than 300,000 registrations when...
[October 20, 2004, 14:05]
UK firms lagging on.eu
News By the 7 April general release of .eu domains, pre-registrations for trademarked brands, as well as some predictably in-demand domains such as sex.eu, are expected to hit 1.5 million. Germany currently accounts for 30 percent of registrations, the...
[February 23, 2006, 15:50]
CallNet launches free Internet service
News The company claims it will receive no more than 10,000 registrations on its first day and has assured prospective users that it is not about to collapse. A company spokesman dismissed claims the service would be overwhelmed by registrations.
[November 1, 1999, 7:00]
CallNet claims success
News The company claimed last week it would be able to cope with the demand for registrations from day one. A spokesman said: "this totally vindicates our idea, the delays in processing registrations are beyond our control, but we are working with BT to...
[November 3, 1999, 7:00]
Nominet takes domain tasting off the menu
News The official .uk domain-name registry announced on Monday that it would impose limits on the number of registrations that can be deleted in an effort to stamp out the practice, which is known as "domain tasting".
[August 7, 2006, 17:05]
ICANN under fire for dodgy domains
News The study, released Wednesday by the US General Accountability Office, showed that 2.31 million domain names, or 5.14 percent of all domain registrations, have been registered with information "obviously and intentionally false" (such as a (999...
[December 8, 2005, 8:40]
BT expands broadband-trigger scheme
News Over half of the triggers are between 300 and 400 registrations, lower than generally expected, and just one local exchange -- Hollinswood in Shropshire -- was unlucky enough to receive a trigger of 750.
[March 31, 2003, 13:42]
Britain gets a new broadband divide
Talkback It only managed 32 registrations when the triggers were running, this was not helped by the switch not supporting ISDN. Everybody with an ISDN line is parented off another exchange with a different STD, so these lines were not counted against the...
[April 20, 2005, 10:39]
VeriSign to lose control of .org
News A proposal agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) would see VeriSign surrender control of the .net domain in 2006, but keep control of the crucial .com domain, which accounts for 80 percent of domain...
[March 1, 2001, 13:55]
