Tag Archives: france

January, 2010

• 14 January

  Credit.fr sells for $851,875

  Topping all other domain sales this week is credit.fr, which has sold for €587,500 ($851,875 USD). It is the highest sale ever recorded on the .fr ccTLD. The previous domain to hold this spot, mutelle.com, sold for $116,221 in October of 2009. Other recent ccTLD sales include Südtirol.eu for $14,355 …

December, 2009

• 14 December

  Paris mayor launches campaign in support of .paris

  Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris, has shown he is serious about .paris with the launch of a new campaign and website advocating for a .paris gTLD. Last year, the city officially declared its intention to apply for the extension. The city has an urban area of 11.6 million people, more …

July, 2009

• 28 July

  BodyBuilding.info sells for £8,228

  The .info domain extension usually doesn’t fair well at auction, but today is an exception with the sale of BodyBuilding.info for £8,228 ($14,500 USD). Compare that to BodyBuilding.net, which only fetched £2,785 ($4,750 USD) in 2005. Clearly this is a sign that domains have become much more valuable over the …

June, 2009

• 8 June

  French Military Shuts Down BitTorrent Site

  In an unexpected move, the French military took action against SnowTigers, a private BitTorrent site catering mainly to downloaders in France. The action came as a shock because private websites are not usually targeted by authorities. SnowTigers had more than 250,000 members, many of whom supported the site financially. The …