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miércoles, 29 de septiembre de 2010

199.379 domains will be released in Brasil.

This saturday October 2th., 2010, NIC Brasil will release 199.379 domain names that were not renewed by their owners.

The full list can be consulted at:
https://www.nameaction.com/Brasil_Listados/brasil_nuevo.html

Source: http://registro.br/info/proclib.html

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

jueves, 22 de julio de 2010

100.000 Domains .CO in the first hour.

.CO domains already started for General Public and on the first hour more than 100.000 domains, 8.200 in the first minute and 100.000 on the first 22 minutes, all without technical problems and working perfectly.

At this time there are more than 279.000 domains .CO registered.

As it was commented before, the domain .CO has brought fresh air to the over populated .COM world and many well known companies are using the .CO extension like Twitter using t.co or the political blog in the United States “Politico” using politi.co.

The three most highlighted characteristics of domains .CO is that, they are Global, Trustworthy and of easy to remember.

One of the most notorious facts is the effort that .CO Internet S.A.S. has put in transforming domains .CO in one of the most trustworthy extension there is.

The technological capacity was demonstrated considerably in responding to thousand requests in less than half an hour during the opening.

The domain .CO offers optimum protection and security measures for users and their intellectual property forcing them to use their information and with that assure a transparent WHOIS which moves away the cybersquatters and this is also combined with other legal protection measures.

Source: http://www.cointernet.com.co/

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

jueves, 15 de julio de 2010

STATISTICS AND IMPORTANTE OF DOMAINS .CO

The statistics that are known about the process of registration for domains .CO are giving a very potent signal about the importance this extension is acquiring on the Internet.

The numbers are revealing and seems that no important company wants to be kept out of the .CO domain circle.

Some important data that are guaranteeing .CO domains:

- Of the 500 most important global brands more than half has subscribe to request their domain .CO.

- Over 70% of the best brands of the world (says BrandFinance) will have requested their .CO domain before it opens for general public.

- 1.500 requests have been decline during the Sunrise period because of no brand rights and this indicates that there are cybersquatters.

- Under Sunrise period more than 11.000 requests were received and more than 15.000 during the LandRush period.

The World Trademark Review has notice that many famous brands are thinking about promoting their new services and products using the .CO extension, this showing that this new extension can even take market share from .COM.

On July 16th the Landrush stage ends and on July 20th it opens for general public.

Source:
http://assets.cointernet.co/COinternet/Media/2010-0712_WTR-BigBrandsOnlyHaveDays.pdf

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

jueves, 1 de abril de 2010

Important price reduction in Bolivia.

NIC Bolivia has lowered the prices a considerable amount for second level domains (.BO).

This price decrease will be effective from today by the NIC.

Source: https://www.nic.bo

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

viernes, 12 de marzo de 2010

NIC Colombia Interview.

NameAction visited Colombia to follow closely the process of registration of domain there.

Juan Diego Calle (General Manager), Eduardo Santoyo (Vice-president of Corporate affairs) and Nicolai Bezsonoff (Vice-president of Operations) of NIC Colombia had the kindness of receiving us and respond our questions.

Here we are transcribing the interview made on February 25th 2010.

1.- How many new domain name have been registered since the opening of domains .com.co and how many you expect to register in the first year?

Since the opening of domains .com.co we have registered 4.000 domains and expect to register 400.000 during the first year.

2.- How was the process of registration during this stage?

We believe it was good, the peak of 3rd level domains was a pleasant surprise. On the other hand the lack of accredited registrars was not good since it increased the prices because of lack of competition. From the 9 accredited registrars, only 3 participated: GoDaddy, my.com.co and InternetX.

3.- Is it possible to know the proportion of companied from Latin America, USA and Europe?

At least half of the companies were Latin and mainly Colombians.

4.- Why people needs to register their domain .CO?

The answer is in 3 ideas we use here constantly:

I.- The .CO is a global domain, with this we mean that it is distributed globally by the main net registrars.
II.- It has recognition, is intuitive and globally legible.
III.- The .CO has credibility.

In more than 20 ccTLD´s the .CO is sued as part of the domain, practically in every continent there is one .CO.

The letters .CO are known around the world and they have a significance. In a survey made to 600 people in the United States where the question was, what does .CO signifies? 75% responded “Company”.

It is not necessary to sell .CO as synonym of “Company”, it has immediate recognition. Additionally .CO means the same thing in the main languages.

Also, .CO has a lot of technical credibility since it has the support of a strong, solid and with a lot of experience company like Neustar that already operates domains like .BIZ, .Travel, etc.

There is a policy of keeping the domain clean and a technical operation top of the line.

The management policies also give credibility to the .CO since they have been adjusted to the international setting. The management is regulated by the Ministry of Communication.

5.- Which is your main market?

There are 2 products:

I.- Global product which is the new domain under second level .CO.

The focus is to search for small and medium companies that are starting on the Internet, at the time of registering their domain, to give priority to .CO over other extensions.

II.- Product for Colombia .COM.CO.

The idea is that this extension works for local companies like dentists or others for which the .COM.CO is perfect.

6.- How does cybersquatting gets solved?

There are various tools that help in this subject.

I.- Have a group of registrars that have control points.

II.- A higher price that demotivates piracy.

III.- A policy that punishes false information on a domain. If there is false information the domain can be cancel.

IV.- A robust WHOIS that prevents anonymity and allows visibility for the registrant.

V.- The UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy) allows to recover the domain through arbitration.

VI.- Through the regulations approved by the Ministry a person that tries to damage a third party is punished with the domains cancellation and also allows to go to civil courts.

7.- Will ICANN be in Cartagena this year?

There is interest. The proposal to have ICANN in Cartagena was already presented because it is congruent with the new era of the .CO, plus there has never been an ICANN in Colombia.
The technical evaluation of Cartagena was already made and it fulfilled all the requirements.

This will be define in Nairobi.

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

lunes, 1 de febrero de 2010

February 7th, COM.CO domains without restrictions.

Good news to those that tired to register their domain .com.co (Colombia) and could not because of the requirements of having a trademark and the obligation of sending notarized documents to prover the existence of the company.

From February 7th any person or company, either national or foreigner could register domains com.co and net.co without any restriction based on the system "First come, first served".

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

viernes, 22 de enero de 2010

.Co Domains Managment Begins on February 7, 2010

Next February 7th initiate his operations as manager of the domain .CO, the Company: CO INTERNET SAS.

From this date the most important changes will be:

Any natural or juridical person, resident or foreign will be able to register a domain .CO. excluding the extensions org.co, edu.co, mil.co, and gov.co which have special requirements.

The domains will be registered through several registrars, allowing competitive prices and services of “added value”.

The documentation and the steps are simplified, therefore it will be possible to register a domain on line just in a few minutes. The previous verification will be eliminated.

It will be possible to register an unlimited number of domains

Domains will be able to be registered from 1 to 5 years.

Domains will be able to be transferred between holders.

Since March 2010 it will be possible to register Second level domains like www.example.co the process is in 4 phases:

Phase 1:
Those that have a domain registered .co before July 30, 2008 will have priority to register the same domain in the second level. Between April 1 and April 20, 2010.

Phase 2:
Those that have trademark in Colombia before July 30.2008, will be able to register his domains.
Between April 26 and June 10, 2010.

Phase 3:
Anyone will be able to request a domain with a fee higher to the normal one.
In case of coincidences an auction will be done.
Between June 21 and July 13

Phase 4:
the registration will be open to the general public on the base of " First Come, First Served ".

The registration will be done with the registrars and from 1 to 5 years.
It begins On July 20.

*All the dates are tentative and them could be change

Source: http://www.cointernet.com.co/administrador/medios/el-7-de-febrero-de-2010-el-dominio-co-tendra-un-nuevo-administrador/


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

viernes, 4 de diciembre de 2009

Registration of 2nd level domains for .DO is approved.

NIC DO will allow the registration of 2nd level domains from December 10th 2009.

General Requirements:

·To protect the current registrations it will start with a pre-registration period.

·NIC DO will register directly under .DO all the domains registered before October 30th 2009 under 3rd level that until November 30th 2009 do not present any pending payment.

·NIC DO has a list of domains which could not be registered, for example: terms related to IANA, ICANN, Internet, New gTLDs, etc.

·Domains with less than 2 characters, domains with cities of Dominican Republic, if domains are in process of a Lawsuit, etc. can not be registered.

·In cases where a domain of 3rd level is registered to 2 different owners the one with the oldest registration will keep the 2nd level.

·The information of the pre-registered 2nd level domain will be the same as the domain of origin (3rd level).

·Domain names requested under pre-registration will have to be completed before March 10th 2010, at that time if the registration is not complete it will become available for any interested person.

·The domain name will not resolve by the DNS until the payment for registration has been done.

·Domains can only be registered for 2 years minimum.


New Policies for Controversies for domain Resolution

New mechanisms are created to solve 2 types of controversies:

1.- Controversies between the owner of the domain and NIC.DO

Every lawsuit, controversy or complain between the owner of a domain name and NIC DO, resulting from the application of these policies or related to the same, its failure, its interpretation, etc. must be solved directly by them, and by default, will be subject to arbitration by the Counsel of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Chamber of commerce and Production of Santo Domingo, Inc.

2.- Controversies between the owner of a domain name and a 3rd party.

In case of a dispute or controversy between an owner of a domain name and a 3rd party regarding a registration or use of the domain name, this dispute or controversy will be subject to the disposition established in the Politics of Controversy resolution in matters of domain names for .DO and the Requirement of the Policy of resolution of controversies in matters of domain names (The Regulations) for .DO and the Additional Regulations of the provider of the controversy resolution regarding domain names.

NIC DO has selected the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the WIPO to manage the controversies.

Source:

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

martes, 1 de diciembre de 2009

Published Regulations for Domains .AR

In the Official Bulletin of November 11th 2009, the Resolution 654/2009 of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, International Commerce and Cult, has been published with the new regime for domain name for Argentina (Nic-Ar ).

Norms regarding the 200 domains per entity under extension .COM.AR and .ORG.AR, requirements applying to the Registrant entity, for domain transfers and proceedings regarding revocation of domains, are confirmed.

Source:

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

viernes, 9 de octubre de 2009

Latin American Domains Statistics - September 2009

The statistists of Latin American domain name until September 2009 can be checked in:

http://latinoamericann.org/?q=node/2006

Relevant information:

Today there are more than 4.86 million domain names delegated in the region an approximate increase of a 1.86% since last month. This at the same time represents 17.40% of growth in this year.

The yearly growth is leaded by the ccTLDs .BR, .AR, .MX and .VE.

During September the ccTLD that showed the most percentage increase were:

- .AI (1348.15%)
- .GD (4.53%)
- .MX (2.79%).

The ccTLDs with the most absolute value growth were:

- .BR (39496),
- .AR (31872) and
- .MX (9806)
- .CL (3923).

The growth in the .AI is shown since they opened the registration for foreign requesters since the registration was allowed only for nationals.

The first 5 registrations of the region, regarding the total registrations done to this date:

- .AR (2001844)
- .BR (1848161)
- .MX (361597)
- .CL(259914)
- .VE (152799).


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

miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2009

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MERITS AND SECURITY OF .HN DOMAINS

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
ON THE MERITS AND SECURITY OF .HN DOMAINS

To all our .HN domain users, registrants, Registry, Agents, Registrars and General Public, it lets them know the Domain Registries Center in Honduras .hn is a legally constituted entity according to the Laws of the State of Honduras, that the administration of ccTLDs .HN delegated by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers-Corporation) to the Network Sustainable Development-Honduras (RDS-HN) since 1993, is a legal relationship of a private nature, with obligations and responsibilities to its third party users of our services: .hn domains, Web Design and Hosting, therefore the legitimacy, security, quality service and Domain Registration is guaranteed, so that should avert any kind of concern related to the recent events related to the visit made us CONATEL to the RDS-HN.

07 of October 2009, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.



CcTLD.HN/RDS-HN

More than 126.000 domains will be liberated in Brazil.

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://www.nameaction.com/brasil.htm


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.

If you want to register a domain name and do not have local presence or need help, please request the domain names you are interested in through our website.

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.NameAction.com
Domains Latinamerica.

miércoles, 30 de septiembre de 2009

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

jueves, 24 de septiembre de 2009

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

viernes, 4 de septiembre de 2009

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

martes, 18 de agosto de 2009

New operator for ccTLD .CO

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

martes, 4 de agosto de 2009

Opening Pricing for Domains .MX

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

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
www.nameaction.com
Domains Latinamerica

miércoles, 15 de julio de 2009

Government and Banks will create “banco.ar”.

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

jueves, 18 de junio de 2009

Colombia will be accepting bids for .CO on June 23rd.

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.nameaction.com
Domains Latin America

martes, 26 de mayo de 2009

.MX Domains with a bonus of 1 year.

NIC Mexico has informed us that during this month they will be adding a year to the expiration of all .MX domains registered during May 2009:

The Registry .MX, recognizing customers loyalty and with the aim to offer total coverage paid, will extend the coverage for an additional year for those domain names directly under .MX that are registered during May 2009. That is, if you registered a domain name today May 22, 2009, the expiration date will be May 21st, 2011.

Juan Enrique Sánchez S.
President
NameAction