The .RU registry has introduced new registration rules. Registrants of .RU domain names need to verify their identity by submitting documents to the .RU registry.
What documents have to be submitted? Legal entities / companies: A copy of the company registration document confirming the registration of the legal entity issued by the relevant state authority. Natural persons and entrepreneurs: copy of passport.
These changes also apply to all existing .RU registrations. If the documents are not submitted to the registry it may result in the deletion of domains.
The documents may be submitted in the language of issue, translation is not necessary.
auDA (the registry responsible for .au domain names) recently announced it will implement a new Domain Renewal, Expiry and Deletion Policy on 21 March 2010.
Under the new Policy:
Registrars will be able to offer registrants a "domain sync" service, which allows a registrant to change the expiry date of all its .au domains to a date that is less than 2 years from the date of registration. This means that a registrant of numerous .au domain names can choose a common expiry date for all its domains. This will be useful from a domain name management perspective.
The expiry procedure will operate as follows: Expiry Date -> Expired Hold (30 days) -> Expired Pending Purged (1 day) -> Domain Deleted.
Expired and deleted .au domain names will be published on the Official Domain Drop List when they become "eligible for purge". The list willl be extremely useful for those who want to recovery domain names or those involved in the domain name aftermarket not to mention our good old friends the cybersquatter.
As a specialist domain name management and brand protection company we are responsible for assisting trade mark owners securing domain names within the various TLDs around the world.
Offering brand protection services implies that you understand how to adequately protect a brand. This raises the question why do so many domain name management companies make use of marks that are difficult, if not impossible to protect.
Example: Monitor your Mark = MarkMonitor, Get a Safe Name = SafeNames, European DNS = EuroDNS, Names on the Net = NetNames, Electronic Brand Services = eBrandServices.
According to www.ipo.co.uk the above marks have either not been filed as trade marks or probably refused for lack of distinctiveness.
If you practice brand protection then you must practice it at home first.
If you do not have a corporate presence in China it will not be possible to regster cn and com.cn domain names. To allow our clients a marketing presence in China we are now promoting cn.com as a temporary alternative to the .cn Chinese extension.
.CO is the county code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) assigned to Colombia. Besides serving the function of a ccTLD it will also become a popular branding tool on the Internet since the two letters CO are the recognizable abbreviations for Company, Commerce and Communications.
It is currently possible to register a third level domain name (COM.CO, NOM.CO and NET.CO) without restriction.
.CO Launch Schedule
The launch of .CO, the second level domain will occur in 5 stages.
1. Third Level Transition - 7 February 2010
Pre-existing domain names with extensions such as COM.CO, NOM.CO and NET.CO will be transferred to the new registry, for safekeeping, until transferred to a .CO registrar, which must occur before the expiry date of each domain name.
2. Grandfathering - March 2010
Owners of third level domain names (COM.CO, NOM.CO and NET.CO) which were registered before 30 July 2008 can register the corresponding second level domain name. Example: brand.com.co will allow the registrant to register brand.co.
3. Sunrise A / Sunrise B - (1 April 2010 - 20 April 2010) and (26 April 2010 - 10 June 2010)
Trade mark owners who have a trade mark registered on or before 30 July 2008 can apply for a corresponding domain name.
4. Landrush - 21 June 2010 - 13 July 2010
Anyone who is interested in securing a short and memorable domain name of high commercial value will have the opportunity to submit an application before General Availability begins. Matching applications will be resolved at auction.
5. General Availabilty - 20 July 2010
.CO domain names can be registered on a “first come, first served” basis.
If you want a copy of the .co provisional launch document, please email domains@lexsynergy.com.
The above dates are tentative and are subject to change.
In previous blog posts and newsletters we reported that the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has restricted foreign registrars and registrants from registering domain names within the .cn namespace.
These restrictions have placed trade mark owners in a predicament, resulting in some foreign registrars forwarding .cn registrations to local registrars for processing. The circumvention of the restrictions is not ideal and could lead to CNNIC deleting the domain names.
Although not a formal recognised TLD, the alternative is .cn.com. This extension is managed by Centralnic, who uses the .COM, .NET and .ORG standard domain name structure to offer additional regional and country-specific domain names, ensuring a secure, inexpensive solution for creating easily identifiable Internet addresses worldwide. CentralNic's registry service is particularly useful for Internet users in countries where domain names are difficult to obtain due to restrictive domain regulations.
If you require strategic domain name advice email our Domain Name Department at domains@lexsynergy.com or visit www.lexsynergy.tel for more contact information.
Suriname is located in the north of South America and its official language is Dutch.
The TLD (Top Level Domain) assigned to Suriname is .sr. This TLD is unrestricted, meaning that there are no restrictions to registering a .sr domain name, which are processed on a "first come, first served" basis.
.sr is also marketed as an abbreviation for seniors, although it is highly unlikely that senior citizens will be registering domain names. This may change as the Internet community ages.
The .RU registry has introduced new registration rules. Registrants of .RU domain names need to verify their identity by submitting documents to the .RU registry.
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