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... at the company, which has been present on the internet since 1994, but those responsible at Playboy do not seem to have had the up-and-coming country extension of Anguilla on their radar. Playboy Enterprises International Inc. believes its trademark rights have been infringed by the domain ...

The Irish Government's Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications launched a public consultation for the management of the .ie country code extension on December 17, 2024. The aim of the consultation is to define the key requirements and principles to be adopted by the .ie registry ...

... domains in 2023, it may even grow by over 270,000 domains in 2024. A certain degree of saturation also seems to have occurred with the German country extension .de. While there was still an increase of over 233,000 domains in 2023, there were only around 6,000 net domains more in the past ...

The .au Domain Administration (auDA), administrator of the Australian country extension .au, has reported a significant data breach. Due to a software error, it was possible to view additional information about the domain holder that was no longer intended ...

The East African country Rwanda has entrusted its country extension .rw to the arbitration jurisdiction of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Starting in December 2024, disputes over .rw domains can be resolved out ...

CZ.NIC z.s.p.o, registry of the Czech country code extension .cz, is increasing its fees. With effect from 1 March 2025, the purchase price for domain registrars will increase from CZK 145 (approx. EUR 5.78) to CZK 160 (approx. EUR 6.38) per ...

... has been founded, which is dedicated to the fight against DNS abuse; this should ensure that .org remains a safe space in the future. Indonesia's country extension .id has joined the club of domain millionaires. According to the registry Perkumpulan Pengelola Nama Domain Internet Indonesia (PANDI), ...

The Irish .ie registry, like many other European country code extensions, is struggling with the expiry of registration contracts and the associated decline in registration numbers. In recent months, intensive work has therefore been carried out ...

FSM Telecommunications Corporation, registry of the country code .fm (Micronesia), has reached an agreement with San Francisco-based BRS Media Inc. to extend their decades-long partnership. In 1998, BRS Media began marketing the then little-known country ...

... cent of US consumers place more trust in .com domains, 78 per cent of UK consumers place more trust in the .co.uk extension. Atom.com says that country-specific top-level domains such as .uk, .de and .jp can be worth considering for brands with a purely local market, but can be a hindrance when ...