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, 20 de noviembre de 2009

Which ccTLD will have the biggest growth?

In the web site http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2274716/ a Survey
is trying to answer the following question:
Which ccTLD will have the biggest growth in the next years?
Right now, India .IN is winning with a 20% followed by .US of United States
with a 11% and then Canada .CA, Colombia .CO and Germany .DE are tied
with a 6% each.

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.



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