N.et: Ethiopian domain hack was sold for five figures!

Posted by DomainGang on April 10, 2024, at 12:59 pm

You gotta love domain hacks made with ccTLDs; in the case of N.et the domain uses Ethiopia‘s two-letter code dot .et to form the “Net” keyword. It’s not exactly clear who bought the domain which was used in the past to run a URL shortener business. The domain N.et was sold for mid five figures […]

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Register.to owner passed away, leaving .to registrants in limbo

Posted by DomainGang on April 12, 2023, at 11:05 am

Some unfortunate news: The owner of Register.to, an operator and reseller of .to domains, has passed away, according to reports. Domain names that end in the .to extension are safe, as the Registry is operated by Tonic.to. What are .to domains? From Wikipedia: .to is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the Kingdom […]

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Hou la la! French domain .FR crossed 4 million registrations

Posted by DomainGang on December 28, 2022, at 11:20 am

The French may have lost the chance to win a second World Cup in a row but their national domain, dot .FR, is winning. More than 4 million .FR domain names are now registered, according to Afnic, operators of the French ccTLD. Between 12,000 and 16,000 new .FR domain names are registered every week, with […]

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Seven with #Sedo : Top ccTLD keyword auction is live

Posted by DomainGang on May 20, 2021, at 10:32 am

Sedo, our premium sponsor, is rolling out a seven day auction of ccTLD domain names. Featuring top level domains from Europe, the event takes place from May 20 – May 27 and there are 171 domains on that list. You can expect to find domains from France (.fr), the Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it) […]

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#China and UDRP : New rules at the #WIPO change the .CN landscape

Posted by DomainGang on August 9, 2019, at 11:48 am

The WIPO is changing the way China’s two ccTLD strings are to be handled, as far the UDRP process is concerned. The launch of specific domain name dispute resolution services for .cn and .中国 (China) follows different guidelines than with other TLDs. The new process will only affect domains that are 3 years old and […]

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Got a lowball offer for your #domain name? Here’s how to respond internationally

Posted by DomainGang on July 7, 2018, at 8:34 pm

There are many ways to respond to a lowball offer, when it arrives in the form of single or double digits. Even higher price ranges are considered lowball, when the amount offered in no way matches the quality of the domain, such as LLL .com domains or generics. A common approach would be to lash […]

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Bright.md : Medical startup secures millions of dollars in funding on a ccTLD

Posted by DomainGang on July 18, 2017, at 12:01 pm

Start up Bright.md secured $8 million dollars in Series B funding round led by B Capital Group. Based in Portland, Oregon, Bright.md provides software automating care and communications between physicians and patients. “Bright.md’s SmartExam acts as a virtual physician’s assistant – think of it as the best automated medical resident ever – that enables primary […]

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Entire Slovak ccTLD .SK was stolen, claims Czech technocrat

Posted by DomainGang on July 5, 2017, at 9:25 am

Czech technocrat, Ondřej Caletka, alleges that the Slovak ccTLD, dot .SK, was stolen in 1999. After the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993 into the Czech Republic (now Czechia) and Slovakia, both countries were given new ccTLDs: .CZ and .SK respectively. While the Czech Republic’s ccTLD management history seems normal and boring, that wasn’t the same […]

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Chinese domain market report : China’s investment in .CN explodes

Posted by DomainGang on August 2, 2016, at 11:45 am

In January, during NamesCon, the Chinese domain registrar CNNIC proudly announced that .CN is the largest ccTLD in the world. At the time, more than 14 million .CN domains were “in circulation,” having surpassed Germany’s .DE registrations. The number is considerably higher now, as the domain market and investment in .CN domains has exploded. According […]

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What are “Generic Country Code Top Level Domains” to Google?

Posted by DomainGang on July 29, 2016, at 11:54 am

There are more country code top level domains (ccTLD‘s) than actual countries in the world. In fact, there are several active ones for obsolete countries, such as dot .SU for the former Soviet Union. When it comes down to search engine visibility of ccTLD domains, not all are created equal. Google, the quintessential search engine, […]

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Domain flags : Country ccTLDs that went live in the 1990’s

Posted by DomainGang on March 20, 2016, at 7:06 pm

Last week we shared the country ccTLDs that were allocated in the 1980’s, the pre-commercial days of the Internet. As the use of the Internet expanded beyond the academic cycles, more countries around the world jumped in, claiming their national two-letter domain. In the 1990’s, the list of countries staking their “domain flags” into the […]

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Domain flags : Country ccTLDs that went live in the 1980’s

Posted by DomainGang on March 16, 2016, at 5:37 pm

With dot .com celebrating its 31st anniversary with Symbolics.com yesterday, it’s about time to dig into the domain name history overall. The first ccTLD domains were allocated in the 1980’s and one of them predated the registration date of .com. Dot .US was the first country TLD ever to be allocated, on February 15th, 1985. […]

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