Register a .uk domain name and win an iPad

Registering a domain name these days is one of the easiest task when it comes to creating a new website, but what if you could also win a wonderful prize by only buying a co.uk domain name from VelnetWeb, a UK based web hosting company ?

Velnet is one of the fast growing web hosting company in UK, with a wide range of products from web hosting and domain name registration to web design and ecommerce stores creation. With the latest discounts offered ( -20% for the Velnet Business Plan hosting plan ), Velnet is striving to offer its clients more options for less money, without the lacks of any initial features.

VelnetWeb is recently holding a competition in conjuction with Nominet, the .uk domain name registry in the United Kingdom. The competition will run for a total of 8 weeks, starting on 2 of August and lasting until 27 September 2010. Every person that registers a .uk domain name in that period can win either a brand new Apple iPad or one of the daily give-away iTunes vouchers, each worth £25. There are 8 brand new iPads in the competition and lots of iTunes vouchers, so chances of grabbing one are quite high.

In order to take part of this competition, along with registering a .uk domain name on the .UK prize draw page, anyone that wants to participate to the draw should tick the “Prize Draw Signup” and will be automatically entered in the contest.

Each week, the winners will be picked automatically by Nominet and they will be contacted and announced on VelnetWeb website with details regarding how to get in possession of the prize.

non-Latin web addresses go live

non-Latin web addresses go live

The very first countries to take advantage of the non-Latin domain name as soon as ICANN switched it on are the Arab countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and UAE. The aforementioned countries went live with country code domain names written in Arabic scripts on the day it was made possible by ICANN
China with its huge online population was expected to be one of the first to adopt the non-Latin web address but the Arab countries have beating them to it. The switch on of the non-Latin domain names is said to transform the world wide web into a truly world wide web regardless of your language or script unlike how it has been since it was originally created. This move allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.

Many of the countries who script are non-Latin based as said to request approval, so far well over 20 countries have requested approval for international domains from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

This new comes as Nominet, the UK domain naming authority is considering extending the extensions that could be registered within the UK domain name space including two character domain name.

You can comment on this article on this website or you can discuss it at UK webmaster forum or its domain name registration discussion section.

.co domain names getting completely accessible from July 20

.co stands out as the ccTLD for Colombia and it’s governed by Universidat de los Andes. All the same, on August 13, 2009, the Colombian Ministry of Communications had given the management and advertising of the .co domains for a ten years duration to .CO Internet S.A.S., a joint venture involving Colombian firm and NeuStar Inc.

A subsequent stage would be the approvals coming from IANA, Section of Commerce of the United States and ICANN. The moment it’s approved, the Universidat de los Andes is going to transmit the whole set of procedures of the domain to .CO Internet S.A.S. On the other hand, this partnership needs to carry out the newest guidelines and also adapt them to best procedures considered.

This particular .co is related around the globe with the terms business, company and marketing therefore it can turn out to be an innovative online presence-branding instrument for businesses and organizations, business owners as well as administrators of every type. Pre-registration regarding .co domains has already been available, even so, the launching agenda will contain three phases:

1. On April 26 (yesterday) the Global Sunrise – this is related to trademark holders with alike domain names registered before July 30, 2008.

2. Starting on June 21 and ending on July 13 is the Landrush – this phase consists of offering domain names of great commercial importance to interested persons

3. On July 20, the General Availability opens the doors for everyone willing to register a .co domain name.

As a consequence of several restrictions enforced by regulating guidelines, there are going to be just ten .co Approved Registrars throughout 1st year of function will be: InternetX, MelbourneIT, eNom, Tucows, My.com.co, Dotster, Register.com, 1&2, Network Solutions and GoDaddy. Even so, almost every ICANN along with non-ICANN registrars can enroll as resellers.

Costs for these domains is going to be considered by each one of the ten registrars, however its should be higher as compared to other sorts of domain names because of the relating to business development prospect. A few of the10 registrars currently offer pre-registration, having rates from $299/year for Global Sunrise and Landrush phases to $29,99/year for General Availability level.

Whois Domain Name IP Address Tools

Whois, domain name, IP address tools is a versatile website toolkit most website owners and webmasters will find very useful.
It provide basic information about a web address such as a domain name availability or nonavailability, it suggests alternative domain names where the desired domain name is not available.

Domain name IP address tools also provides comprehensive web address information including IP address, detailed information about the remote server such as the kind of OS software running it is running, what version, what dependencies etc etc. This whois domain IP address tool script is an invaluable tool for finding information about websites, IP address and other domain related information, some of the features of the script are:

- Check domain name availability.
- Suggest domain names.
- Suggest alternative domain names.
- Find out your own IP address.
- Find out the IP address of a remote user or server.
- Find out information about a website.
- Find out information about a remote server.
- Search the web using Google
- Basic domain searches.
- Complex web address searches.

- whois search for any TLD
- search for IP
- search for name servers
- search for sub domain info
- search on the ARIN database
- do simultaneous search for the queried name for other five popular TLD
- display the domain web page screen shoot(if this active)
- domain name suggestion based to real words combination
- display the domain daily traffic trend
- display the domain search visits percent
- display the domain daily reach percent
- display the domain daily page views percent
- display the Google PR
- display the Alexa index
- display the MSN back links
- display the Yahoo back links
The script is made available free of charge by Temi.co.uk. If you need more information about the script including download information please use the contact form on this page.

You can see a live version of this script at Whois UK. If you are using the script and need support, just comment on this blog and we will get back to you.

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Dot xxx adult domain to be considered by ICAN

Top level porn domain to be considered by ICANN board

The domain extension creation season seem to be upon us again. A few days after Nomine, the UK domain name registration authority started a consultative process to create one and two character domain names along with a host of other domain name extensions withing the .uk domain name space, the sponsors of another domain name extension, the top level extension .xxx were getting ready to push for the creation of their domain extension.

.xxx domain extension which the sponsor want to create specifically for website with adult contents went before ICANN for approval about three years ago but the plan was not approved. The sponsors have dust their proposals down and are putting it before ICANN again on the 12t of March 2010 at their meeting in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.

Sponsors of .xxx domain were buoyed by the conclusion of an independent panel that looked into rejection of the domain extension about three years ago, the panel said: “decision to reject .xxx domain was unfair and that the plan should be reconsidered.” members of ICANN may be forced to back the plan to create the exclusively adult website domain extension in a few days time.

One avid domain name property speculator and adult website webmaster said “creation of .xxx domain extension will actually be good for the Internet safety because network administrator will find it easy to ban juveniles access to all website with the .xxx domain extension” creation of this new extension will also be good for the domain name industry.

Another webmaster said “the porn domain extension is like the beast in the eagle song hotel California, ICANN just cannot kill the beast”, they have been trying to kill it off for many years but I have a feeling it will be approved this time” he added.

Fingers crossed to see if this contention domain extension will indeed be approved the second time its going for approval by ICANN boards.

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