Latest Domain Names Articles http://www.populate.net/ Articles at Populate.NET en-us More than 126.000 domains will be liberated in Brazil. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/more-than-126.000-domains-will-be-liberated-in-brazil.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/more-than-126.000-domains-will-be-liberated-in-brazil.html Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:56:19 -0700 This Saturday (October 10) Nic Brazil will free more than 126.000 domains being available for registration by anyone.

 

If you want to review the complete list of domains to be freed and register some of them please check: http://registro.br/info/proclib-l.html

 

According to the rules of NIC Brazil if the same domain is requested by two companies it will be given to the company that has ID and a trademark registered in Brazil. If there is no company fulfilling this requirement the domain will be blocked waiting for the next liberation process.

 

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.

President

www.NameAction.com

Domains Latinamerica.

]]> Integrated search of domains and trademarks in Portugal. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/integrated-search-of-domains-and-trademarks-in-portugal.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/integrated-search-of-domains-and-trademarks-in-portugal.html Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:39:40 -0700

 

NIC Portugal is offering a new service that allows, at the same time, to verify if the word I want to register is already taken as a domain and/or trademark in the country, also detecting if that word is contained in an existing domain or trademark.

 

This new tool will help prevent conflicts with trademarks and domains in Portugal, allowing the registrant to have a clear and precise idea of the situation in which its identity is in at the moment of requesting a domain.

 

The service can be tested in:

 

http://onlineservices.dns.pt/pesquisas/main/marcasdominiospt.jsp

 

Juan Enrique Sánchez

President

www.nameaction.com

Domains Latin America

]]> NIC.PE: New Strategies for Companies. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/nic.pe-new-strategies-for-companies.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/nic.pe-new-strategies-for-companies.html Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:54:20 -0700 The Telecommunications company, Red Cientifica Peruana (RCP), hopes to equip in the next 3 years up to a million of small and medium enterprises (SME) with an institutional web site, as part of a platform that helps their competitiveness.

“90% of the SME do not have identity on the Internet. We want all to use the domain .pe as a DNS symbol. We hope to launch this mechanism with strength in 2010”, asserted Rolando Toledo, general manager of RCP.

Also added that the Information and Communication Technologies (IT) will help SME to compete with national and foreign pairs, in the frame of commercial agreements in which Peru has subscribe, Andina announce.

He explained that technology tools will facilitate the marketing work of those businesses and will allow entrepreneurs to dedicate to their products.

Declared, “development of platforms for security, connectivity, electronic business, online service systems and accounting programs. SME need these tools that are used by bigger companies”.

On the other hand, stated that the sector has been able to bear the international crisis and that are reactivating some projects that delayed the investment plans of the RCP due to the international financial crisis.

Said, “we will grow 10% this year. The second semester of 2009 will be very interesting although we are conservatives. We hope to a turnover of almost US$5 million”.

Toledo estimated that by the end of the year they would have given their clients close to 50 thousand internet domains and mentioned that they count with thousand bloggers in their free blogs service  or personal logbooks of Internet.

Concluded, “this is a long-term marketing bet. Just by developing the blog platform and being successful will benefit us as business through the publicity that is put in these spaces”.

Source: 
Gestión
http://www.pymex.pe/noticias/peru/1753-el-90-de-pymes-no-tienen-identidad-en-internet.html

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America

]]> New operator for ccTLD .CO http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/new-operator-for-cctld-.co.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/new-operator-for-cctld-.co.html Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:41:52 -0700 Eduardo Botero from the Ministry of Communications in Colombia has informed that the process of Tender for ccTLD .CO in Colombia has concluded and that the consortium that won the Tender was .CO INTERNET S.A.S. This is a Colombian company that resulted from the interest of an important group of Colombian companies, Arcelandia S.A. and NeuStar, an American company with a lot of experience in the domain registration business.

 

The management structure for the service of .co domains is compose of Eduardo Santoyo (ccTLD manager), Juan Diego Calle (CEO of .CO Internet) and Nicoli Bezsonoff (Project Director).

 

The new policies, that, along others, will open the registration on the second level, the integration of IDNs and make the registration the process more time effective, also the appearance of Registrars and the development of spaces and mechanisms of protection of rights and the solution of controversies.

 

Important points:

 

  • The domain registration will be completely open.
  • More competitive and accessible prices are expected
  • For the launching of the second level, once of the requirement of the Ministry is have a gradual offering (Sunrise).
  • For domains of second level those who have registered a domain before the approval of the new politics (July 30th, 2008) will have priority. 

Source: Juan Diego Calle (Demene.com). 

 

Details as the terms, prices and proceeding for the functioning of the new management of domains .CO are still pending definition.

 

Source: http://latinoamericann.org/?q=node/1996 

 

 

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.

President

www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America

]]> Opening Pricing for Domains .MX http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/opening-pricing-for-domains-.mx.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/opening-pricing-for-domains-.mx.html Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:19:15 -0700

 

Starting on September 1st, a special pricing scheme will be in place. During this scheme, the initial registration fee for domain names directly under .MX will start at USD $1,000.00 and will be decreasing gradually over the time to be as low as USD $35.00 on October 31st. After this date, the regular registration fee will be set at USD $50.00.

NIC Mexico also confirms that the registration fee for the other classifications (.COM.MX, .ORG.MX, .EDU.MX, .NET.MX, .GOB.MX) will not be increased.

 

It is possible to obtain better prices registering your domain through an accredited registrar.

 

Source: http://www.nic.mx/es/Noticias_2?NEWS=354

 

]]> Government and Banks will create “banco.ar”. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/government-and-banks-will-create-a%80cbanco.ara%80%9D.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/government-and-banks-will-create-a%80cbanco.ara%80%9D.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:54:59 -0700 With the creation of the new extension “banco.ar” it is seek to hinder virtual fraud against users of Home Banking in Argentina.

 

The creation of this extension will give even more strength to the idea of creating new secure spaces in the virtual world through restricted domains that will allow more security for users.

 

Brazil already adopted this idea creating the extension “B.BR” that can only be used by financial entities that accredit a high level of security against virtual fraud.

 

Some weeks ago the national government and banks that operate in the country started to work on the creation of this extension oriented specifically for Argentinean Banking activities, with the objective of reducing virtual defraud cases, known as “phishing”.

 

“Phishing” is the capacity of duplicating a web site to make the visitor think that the web site is the original, instead of the forged. The idea of the mislead is to acquire confidential information of the user, like password, credit card or financial/banking information.

 

The criminals take advantage of the expansion of the Net, formed by millions of users, where the target never gets exhausted. However, phishing frauds have become more sophisticated and the criminals have developed “a threat thought for each user (thought for each user)”: The banking fraud is the most usual professional computing crime. The criminals attack the system in their weaker link: the client, or now even more, its personal computer.

 

Source:  

http://www.infobaeprofesional.com/notas/83545-Gobierno-y-bancos-crean-el-dominio-bancoar-para-poner-freno-a-las-estafas.html

 

 

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.

President

www.nameaction.com

Dominios Latinoamérica

]]> Domain Name Registration in Latin America – June 30, 2009. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/domain-name-registration-in-latin-america-a%80-june-30-2009.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/domain-name-registration-in-latin-america-a%80-june-30-2009.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:53:38 -0700 Today there are more than 4.5 millions of registered Domains Names.

 

From last month, there is a growth of 1.64%

 

During this year there has been a 10% of growth.

 

 The leaders of this annual growth are ccTLD .br, ccTLD .ar, ccTLD .ve and ccTLD .mx. 

 

 During June, the ccTLDs showing more percentual growth were ccTLD .ec (7.50%),  ccTLD .mx (4.11%) and  ccTLD .py (2.69%).

 

The explanation for the growth of ccTLD .EC is because of a price promotion and regarding ccTLD .MX is because of the opening of the second level.

 

The major growing’s in absolute values last month are ccTLD .br (30263),  ccTLD .ar (21892), ccTLD .mx (12663) and ccTLD .cl (3159).

 

Source:  http://latinoamericann.org/?q=node/1995

 

Juan Enrique Sánchez

President

www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America

]]> Colombia will be accepting bids for .CO on June 23rd. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/colombia-will-be-accepting-bids-for-.co-on-june-23rd.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/colombia-will-be-accepting-bids-for-.co-on-june-23rd.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:11:37 -0700 Rick Latona comments on his blog  that on June 23rd. Colombia will be accepting bids to manage the .co extension. His source tells him that “Verisign, Straat Investments, Affilias, Argus and Technology Services (GTS), among others, have all expressed interest in and will most likely place bids to be the administrator of the extension.”

 Rick Latona points out “finally real competition to .com”. “After all, .com means (commercial)  where .co traditionally means Company. In many ways .co makes more sense than .com for a company´s domain name”.

See complete information at:
http://www.ricklatona.com/2009/06/14/co-is-coming-expect-huge-prices-and-an-intense-aftermarket-finally-real-competition-to-com

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.naneaction.com
Domains Latin America

 

]]> New Arbitration System for Argentinean Domain Names. http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/article.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/article.html Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:59:00 -0700 NIC Argentina continues its efforts to avoid domain names cyberocupation in Argentina.  To the limitation of 200 domains registered per owner now NIC.AR is adding a new arbitration system to recover domain names which is easier and free.

 

Newspaper “El Clarín” informed yesterday that the Government is preparing a new procedure to solve faster domain names disputes under .com.ar.

 

The new procedure will come into force in about two months.

 

The new regulation will allow NIC Argentina to determine who the owner of a domain in conflict will be, until today, normally, it was necessary to appeal at a court.

 

How will it works? If a person is trying to register his trademark and the domain name is taken, this person can complain to NIC Argentina. NIC Argentina will contact the actual owner of the domain name and ask for document for support, after this NIC will decide if  it approve or denies the initial registration. The procedure will be very simple, free and it will take no more than two weeks.

 

Until now, only famous people and well known companies were protected by this procedure because NIC Argentina does not allow the registration of famous names without the corresponding authorization.

 

The new procedures intends extending to protect all kinds of trademarks and companies.

 

This project is very advanced and it is only waiting for the presidential authorization.

 

Juan Enrique Sánchez

President

www.NameAction.com

Domains LatinAmérica

]]> Underrated Traffic Source: Expired Domains http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/underrated-traffic-source-expired-domains.html http://www.populate.net/Internet/Domain_Names/underrated-traffic-source-expired-domains.html Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:48:26 -0800
The loyalty of your subscribers must be earned when it is a legal obligation to make it very easy for them to opt-out!

Buying expired or unavailable domains is a smart move. It's like people going to a shop when it has already closed down and they suddenly teleport (redirect page) to your shop. Once you bought it, make sure the web host company doesn't own it (YOU own it) and you can always transfer the domain to a cheaper host. Do a search for 'purchase expired domains' and you get good leads. I suggest WebExpired.com.

Buy domains with the right keywords related to your business. People going to an invalid hair gel site are not going to buy an e-book on viral marketing.

And of course, those cyber-squatters who make a living out of buying and selling domain names (read: GOOD keywords) are playing a different ball game altogether. ]]>