Domain Sales

The internet has a new Internationalised Domain Name after the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority officially launched one of the Arab world’s first top level domain names. The TLD is .emarat and it’s expected to open up a whole world of the internet previously difficult to access for many Arab users. …

Ever heard of the website desperaterussianhousewives.co.uk? Or watchagrownmanrot.co.uk? You won’t have done because they don’t exist, and are part of a BBC strategy to register unusual domain names which are associated with some of its television shows. The list has reached 154 bizarre domain names, among which are the above …

The 2010 T.R.A.F.F.I.C Vancouver event kicks off this month and the second day of the conference, June 9, sees a .ca auction take place. We could also see some significant .com domains for the Canadian market come on sale. So far the list includes: Men.ca and Hommes.ca Wakeboards.ca and Snowboards.ca …

Nominet’s Policy Advisory Board (PAB) has stated that two-letter .uk domains should be allowed to registered, and to this effect Nominet is running a survey on two letter, one character and other short domain names. Nominet says: The current rules for registering .uk domain names do not allow the registration …

The .pro gTLD is intended specifically for professionals. These days, however, almost anyone in any occupation is a “professional.” So just who can register a .pro domain? Originally, only engineers, doctors, lawyers and accountants in the United States, UK, Germany, France and Canada could register the names. The registration restrictions …

As Africa continues its quest to catch up with the rest of the Internet world, a company in Ghana called Ghana Dot Com Limited, has become the third in Africa to become an accredited domain name registrar. Accreditation was awarded by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), an …

A relevant keyword domain by itself is pretty much useless for SEO. Search engines algorithms pay much more attention to factors like inbound links and page content than the domain name keywords. But having that perfect premium domain can be the ticket to better rankings. How so? You can use …

Introduced in 2001, .biz is a gTLD geared towards businesses. It is intended to be an alternative to .com, but so far adoption of .biz has been slow. Should you register a .biz domain? First off, the good thing is anyone can register a .biz domain. The only requirement is …

.Aero is a gTLD created in 2002 for the aviation industry. There’s nothing wrong with giving users options, but the problem with .aero is that it came too late. By the time it was released, the Internet had already gained wide adoption in the aviation community. Who would give up …

We’ve covered the world’s longest domain, but what about the shortest? That prize goes to g.cn, a name Google purchased some time ago to make it easier for Chinese users to access Google.cn. There are other one-letter domains, such as Nissan’s z.com and PayPal’s x.com, but both of these are …