There are over 100 million websites online today with domain names ending in .shop. This tells us that shop is an important and already widely used keyword for online shops says Hiro Tsukahara, CEO, GMO Registry Inc.
After the 5 September 2016, Ficora (Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority) will change to a new registry-registrar model, which allows anyone to registar a .fi domain now. Furthermore, your registrar is responsible for all .fi domain names and related relationships and services.
How can the Internet community use the psychological theories and studies of “choice” in managing and optimizing the recent expansion of the Internet? With the introduction of more than 1300 new top level domains (TLDs), Internet users have, quite naturally, been divided into two main camps – the excited and the skeptical. One way, there are many, to approach this is through the theories about “choice” and the psychology related to the number of options that one is presented with.
As a domain name choice is a relevant part of positioning your business online, it should be aligned with your digital and overall business strategy. Hence, we interviewed Joe Tonne from Harrow.io, who chose .io as their domain extension.
The Registrar Stakeholder Group is one of several Stakeholder Groups within the ICANN community and is the representative body of domain name Registrars.
As part of our continuous improvement efforts, we have made a change to our Whois service. This update is completely free as we look to further enhance our service for our resellers and their customers. What does this mean? Moving forward, we have added a new section called “Reseller” within the Whois for all .com […]
.NET fee increase VeriSign have decided to increase the registration fee for .net, and it will take place on the 1st February 2016. The increase covers VeriSign’s fee for each annual increment of a new and renewal .net domain name registration and for each transfer of a .net domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar […]
A new launch in the adult themed gTLD space. The Registry operator of dotXXX, ICM Registry, will launch dotSEX on the 1st September 2015. This gTLDs will accompany the existing dotXXX gTLD launched in 2011 and the dotADULT and dotPORN gTLDs which were launched in March 2015 Adult themed gTLDs are specifically designed for the […]
Change of policies at .SO The Somali Ministry of Post and Telecommunications have decided to manage .SO ccTLD through SONIC directly. Current provider GMO will cease to manage .SO from 8th July, 2015. In conjunction with the move, the Registry will implement new policies that will significantly modify registration eligibility and introduce new restrictions on content […]
This summer Ascio will be launching a new substantial update to our SSL service, so here is a quick update on what it entails… Coming soon, you will be able to offer a wide variety of SSL certificates via both our Ascio Web Service and Ascio Partner Portal. The Ascio SSL service will be completely […]