Qinetics, a registry solution provider in Malaysia, announced on Sunday that they have been awarded the contract to manage the .OM ccTLD for the country of Oman.  The entire company press release can be read at the end of the post. The ccTLD .OM is one of three highly desirable ccTLDs because of the typo traffic [...]

For a limited time, you can invest in Mexican domain names for a discounted price! Registry .MX is offering a special September rate for all new registrations - and the longer you register the domain, the more you’ll save. The best deal works out to only $6 USD/year for 5 years! Mexico’s ccTLD consist of third-level [...]

The University of British Columbia has honored John Demco, a former UBC computing facilities manager, for creating the .ca domain registry that gave Canada an online identity. The Demco Student Learning Centre in the Dept. of Computer Sciences will be named on his behalf. Demco started the .ca registry in 1987 and managed a group of [...]

I’ve spent the last three months in Argentina, traveling and exploring the country - north, east, west, and south - all covered. Beyond the “definitely visit this country it kicks ass and people are super-nice” there was some interesting internet usage as compared to the US: ccTLDs are everywhere. I walk past random hardware stores that [...]

The Montenegrin ccTLD, .me, is off to a great start with over 30,000 domain name applications to date. The country’s extension - whose slogan is “.Me is about YOU!” - holds a lot of value due to the potential for personalization. It is certain that buy.me, fly.me, play.me, and some adult possibilities have drawn large amounts [...]

Spain’s ccTLD, .es, has passed the one million mark for total domain registrations. This milestone was made possible due to the liberalisation of the registration rules, which happened two years ago. For the first time ever, in 2007, the country saw more .es domains registered than .com’s. [via Domain Pulse] Share

For the past six or so months, Tech Vibes has been ranking Canadian startup companies by averaging their Alexa and Compete.com rankings. Previously they were doing it on a city-by-city basis, but this month opted for the Canada Startup Index. As a Canadian I see a lot of anecdotal evidence that .ca is gaining in popularity. [...]

The second MyID .CA domain auction starts today at 1pm EDT and will run until June 12th. The auction features 101 .CA domains. In the first auction 24 (out of a total of 77) names were sold for a total of $158,000.00 CAD.  Also Pool.com will start the premium auction for betting.ca today. The full list [...]

Anti-virus software maker McAfee released their second “Mapping the Mal Web” (PDF) report today. The McAfee report attempts to map and identify the specific domain names where malicious websites reside. This is the second year for the report. In the 2007 report, the .tk extension was reported to have the highest number of malicious websites [...]

A Spanish man is holding several government domain names for ransom until the Prime Minister agrees to correct the country’s “inequalities” in water supply and transfer water to all of the country’s drought stricken regions. Share