Serious Domain situation in Honduras.

Last Friday (September 25th) Government employees of Honduras went to the offices of the ccTLD .HN stating: “ Until this date CONATEL has not subscribe an agreement with any public or private institution, therefore it is necessary to order the institution that has been managing and delegating domains .HN the immediate suspension of this service, because it has been taken place aside from what it is stated in article 79B from the General Regulations of the Framework Law of the Telecommunications Sector”

They also order that:

1.- the immediate suspension of all the activity related to registration and delegation of new domains under .HN.

2.- orders that RDS to give CONATEL a list of domains .HN and registrations that have been given.

Article 79B from the General Regulations of the Framework Law of the Telecommunications Sector states:

“It is CONATEL`s faculty the regulation and administration of domains and IP addresses within the national territory. CONATEL can take the necessary measures so that the management of domains and IP addresses can be done through public or private institutions, therefore will subscribe agreements and emit corresponding regulations”.

Source: http://www.lactld.org/News_Item.2009-09-27.9610720521

Juan Enrique Sanchez
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America

Integrated search of domains and trademarks in Portugal.

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.

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