John DemcoDomain Name Registrations Top 233 Million – According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, the first quarter of 2012 ended with more than 233 million domain names worldwide, an annual growth of more than 23 million or 11%. The annual growth as reported three months ago was 20.4 million or 10%.…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for July 18th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John Demco.COM Registry Agreement Renewed – ICANN has approved the renewal of the .com registry agreement with Verisign. The contract term extends through November 30, 2018. New ICANN President and CEO Announced – At a press conference in Prague on June 22, Fadi Chehadé was announced as ICANN’s President and CEO, as of October 1. With…
Neil LimLast year Webnames launched a web design service with small business in mind, called FastTrack. FastTrack provides a professional website, built quickly (typically 8-10 business days) and affordably. The program has been a huge success and we wanted to highlight some of the great websites that have been coming out of this program. This month…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for July 11th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Neil LimCelebrate Canada with a new .CA domain name! This is a great opportunity to register the .CA version of your .COM domain and protect your brand, as well as register new names. The .CA domain name has become an important symbol of Canadian identity and presence. The $9 .CA promotion is running from July 3rd…
Neil LimCIRA in talks with other provinces to establish IXPs In the last few months, CIRA has been working to establish or support the expansion of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) across Canada. CIRA has initiated talks with Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Halifax to help them establish or support the expansion of six key nodes…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for July 4th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Neil LimAs a media sponsor of the 2012 BCIC-New Ventures competition, Webnames.ca would like to congratulate all companies moving forward to round 3 of the competition. The final 10 companies are moving on to Round 3 (in alphabetical order): Backyard BC ESL Explorer Mazza Innovation Ltd. MyBestHelper NaviDent Technologies Inc. Shared Desks (AppQii Technology Inc.) SterileCare…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for June 27th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
John DemcoNew gTLD Applications Announced – ICANN has announced the names of the 1930 new top-level domain applications, together with other information including the public portions of the applications themselves. A 60-day comment period has begun, and a number of comments and informal objections have already been posted. Analyses and breakdowns of the applications are appearing;…
Neil LimA Snapshot of The gTLD Expansion On January 12, 2012 ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers) started accepting applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and closed its application period on May 30, 2012. Presently, there are 22 gTLDs including .com, .org, and .net. Out of the several applications, some of the biggest…
Neil LimBelow are our “top picks” from this week’s CIRA TBR (to-be-released) domains list. The TBR for June 20th has lots of great names, so pre-book your favourite .CA domains early. We publish a “top picks” list each week after CIRA publishes its latest batch of expiring dot-CA domains. CIRA adds more domains to the TBR…
Neil LimLast year Webnames launched a web design service with small business in mind, called FastTrack. FastTrack provides a professional website, built quickly (typically 8-10 business days) and affordably. The program has been a huge success and we wanted to highlight some of the great websites that have been coming out of this program. This month…
Neil LimOn Wednesday June 6th, the security passwords of 6.5 million LinkedIn users were compromised. A Russian hacker had stolen encrypted passwords and posted them online, read more in this related article on Mashable.com. How do I know if my password was compromised? You can check if your password was one of the 6.5 million that…
