.COM and .NET Domains are socalled gTLDs  (generic
Top-Level-Domains) and can be registered by any party worldwide. The
official registry for .COM and .NET is VeriSign Inc. COM & NET
Domains can be registered in real-time. You also
have the possibility of registering multilingual (IDN) .COM and .NET Domains.
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.ORG is a gTLD (generic Top-Level-Domain) and just recently in 2003 the
official registry transitioned from VeriSign Inc. to the new appointed
registry PIR (Public Interest Registry). Anybody can register a .ORG
Domain worldwide. Since January 15th 2005 interested parties can
register .ORG IDNs using german characters such as пїЅ пїЅund .
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can now register, modify and transfer your .INFO domains.
Dot INFO Domains can be registered for time period between
one (1) and ten (10) years. There are absolutely no restrictions when
registering .INFO domains. Register your .INFO domain right away, and
allow people to go to the website, where they know that they will get
the exact information they need. We provide real time registration. For
further information, please visit the official website of Afilias Inc.
at www.Afilias.info.
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The .BIZ address is the best way to remove the .COM clutter that exists
today. .BIZ Domain Names are targeted at businesses who would like to
create a unique web-presence. The .BIZ registry is being designed to
support the next generation of Internet commerce and collaboration.
.BIZ is also IDN capable using german characters. For further
information, please visit the official website of Neulevel Inc., at www.neulevel.biz.
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You can now register a .NAME Domain and secure your own private
internet address along with the respective Email-Address. E.g. Register
www.First.Last.Name and automatically receive the respective
Email-Address First@Last.Name. The official registry not only offers
Third-Level .NAME Domains, but also as of January 14th 2004
Second-Level .NAME registrations, meaning, you can register
yourcompany.name. For further information, please visit the official
Website of Global Name Registry at www.gnr.name.
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On May 5, 2005, Tralliance (the official registry for .TRAVEL) signed a
contract with ICANN to operate the .travel TLD, which is exclusively
reserved for the travel industry.
The .travel Registry�s operating procedures and policies for the
.travel TLD will differentiate it from all other TLDs on the Internet,
and offer unique value to the travel industry and its consumers.
.travel will be restricted to applicants whose eligibility has been
authenticated by independent third parties, including industry
associations. Eligibility will be checked for every applicant, based on
data provided by them. In addition, The Travel Partnership Corporation
has defined restrictions on domain name selection that limit
registrants to names that they use or have rights to. These two
policies will produce a TLD that offers an unprecedented level of
reinforcement of industry identity and brands, as well as tested eligibility.
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Dotmobi is unique - the first top level domain dedicated to delivering
the Internet to mobile devices. Scheduled for launch in May, dotmobi
will revolutionise the use of the Internet on mobile devices. Dotmobi
guides mobile users to made-for-mobile Internet content and services
that can be accessed with confidence. The key differentiator for the
dotmobi domain is the mobile user experience. This is driven by the
Switch On! Guides. The guides contain a mixture of mandatory and
recommended best practices for developing mobile content and services.
The official registry website can be found under http://www.mtld.mobi
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jobs is a new generic Top-Level-Domain and the official registry is
Employmedia LLC www.employmedia.com
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AERO - the domain of aviation
This domain is run by SITA and an initiative run exclusively by and for
the aviation community. As a sponsored domain .AERO can define and
implement its own policies designed to safeguard the integrity of the
domain. AERO can support your quest for global branding and visibility
and through development and application of naming conventions in the
aviation, can streamline and simplify the communications with business partners and passengers.
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The introduction of dot EU will for the first time in Internet history
allow Companies and Individuals to register a domain with a broader
recognition throughout Europe. Until date companies either registered
beneath a generic Top-Level-Domain, such as .COM or .INFO, or they
registered beneath their specific country-code Top-Level-Domain. With
the introduction of dot EU this thinking will certainly change, as dot
EU is bound to become one of the most popular TLDs worldwide,
especially in Europe. The official registry for .EU is EURid
(http://www.EURid.eu). EURid is a not-for-profit organisation,
established in Belgium, and had been selected by the European
Commission to operate the new .EU TLD. EURid was established in a
partnership between DNS BE, IIT CNR and NIC SE, operators of the
ccTLD-Registries for Belgium (.be), Italy (.it) and Sweden (.se). EURid
is in the process of setting up offices in those countries as well as
in the Czech Republic to support 4 geographical regions.
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You now have the possibility of registering your .DE Domain (Registration
term is 1 year). In case you do not have a residence in Germany, please
name a resident party in Germany as "admin-c" to whom any
correspondence can be directed.  As
an official member of the DENIC e.G. - the registry of the country code
Top-Level-Domain .DE for Germany (Deutschland). You can
register, administer and transfer your .DE Domains. In March 2004 the
official registry, DENIC e.G. enable IDN registration beneath .DE using
german characters. For further information please visit the official
registry website at www.denic.de
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Domains with the string .CD
have no restrictions and can be registered by anyone world-wide. The marketing aspects of such
domains are enormous: as of the popularity of this abbreviation; .CD is suitable for the music industry
(Compact Disc), for automobile manufacturers or dealers, who would like to create a Car-Dealer network, for all
categories of the diplomatic body (Corps Diplomatique) or for the own Corporate Design. Not to be forgotten is
the fact that many great domain names are still available, whereas they might be taken with other strings ("Cool Domain).
Please visit the official registry website at www.cd.
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If your business wants to succeed in China, .CN is the place to get
started! China is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and
.CN is widely regarded as the new frontier for e-commerce. To establish
.CN as the next great Internet domain, the China Internet Network
Information Center (CNNIC) collaborated with NeuStar, the administrator
of .US and .BIZ. As of January 16th 2005 you now have the possibility
of registering .CN with chinese characters. For further information,
please visit our website Domains.cn.
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.WS (WebSite) is the Internet-address known for WebSites.
Officially it is the ccTLD of Western Samoa being administered by a
Global Domains International. This ccTLD has no restrictions and can be
registered by anyone. For further information please visit the official
WebSite at www.nic.ws or www.website.ws.
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We have the solution to provide a unique Internet Presence for your
broadcasting or television services. .TV, the country code
Top-Level-Domain of the small Pacific Island nation Tuvalu, symbolizes
an Internet-Address related to the television industry. .TV is IDN
capable. For further information on your broadcasting
domains please visit www.tv.
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.FM, the official country code of the federal States of Micronesia.
With .FM as an Internet-Domain you have the possibility of
establishing a unique internet presence targeted at the listeners of
each radio station. For further information on your broadcasting
domains please visit www.dot.fm
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AM the ccTLD of Armenia, are more suitable for broadcasting stations.
With .AM as an Internet-Domain you have the possibility of
establishing a unique internet presence targeted at the listeners of
each radio station. For further information on your broadcasting
domains please visit www.dot.am
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Under the Topl-Level-Domain UK you can register co.UK Domains targeted at
companies, org.UK Domains for Organisations or me.UK Domains meant for
individuals, who would like to have a personalized Internet presence.
All registrations under .UK are for 2 years. This also accounts for the renewal of these domains.
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.US Domains can be registered and updated in real-time. You are now able to
register your desired domain "live" with our system. .US, the official
country code Top-Level-Domain of the United States, was introduced
primarily for american citizens, companies, organisations and
government. Nonetheless also foreign entities can register .US Domains
provided that they either have a business relationship or a subsidiary
in the United States. These conditions must be confirmed upon
registration. For further information on the ccTLD .US, please visit
the official registry website of NeuStar Inc., at www.us or
www.nic.us.
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 .BZ
"A shorter way to business!" - The .bz domain is an unrestricted and
largely untapped domain name space on the Internet and therefore an
ideal opportunity for businesses and consumers that have been unable to
register their desired name in other domains.
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.CC - The Universal Internet Address is the ccTLD of Cocos (Keeling)
Islands and a popular alternative to dot-com on the internet. Worldwide
more than 500.000 .CC Domains have already been registered and the
demand is still extremely high. .CC is IDN capable. The official
registry is run and maintained by VeriSign Inc.
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.NU (ccTLD of Niue) is a hot domain for Everyone. Young Internet users
and small companies everywhere are adopting the .nu domain. These are
Internet users who want to stand out from the crowd. The official
registry of .NU is run and maintained by NU Domain Ltd.
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.AT is the official country code Top-Level-Domain for Austria. You can
not only register domains beneath .AT, but also or.AT and co.AT. The
official registry offers these extensions also for IDNs with german
characters. The official registry for .AT is NIC.AT.
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To .Be or Not to .BE, that is the question you have to answer if you
want an Internet presence recognizable! .BE is the official country-code Top-Level-Domains maintained and run by DNS.BE the official
registry in Bruxelles, Belgium.
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Dot TK if the official country code Top-Level-Domains for a small
Pacific Island State Named Tokelau. The official registry is run and
maintained by Taloha Inc. For more detailed information please visit www.dot.TK.
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AdamsNames is the official registry for the country code
Top-Level-Domains .TC (Turks and Caicos Islands), .VG (British Virgin
Islands), .MS (Montserrat) and .GS (South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands).
All of these domains can be registered and maintained in real-time.
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.AG is the country code Top-Level-Domain of Antigua and Barbuda. This
extension is extremely popular in Germany, as it is the abbreviation of
PLC-Companies. Just recently the official registry NIC.AG reduced the
minimum registration period from 2- 10 years to 1 - 10 years.
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.SE is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Sweden. .SE was
also the first Scandinavian Country to liberalize their registration
guidelines allowing anybody worldwide to register and use .SE Domain.
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dot PL is the country code Top-Level-Domain for Poland.You can register domains directly beneath .PL or under the
com.pl, net.pl, org.pl, info.pl and/or biz.pl. You also have the
opportunity of registering multilingual .PL Domains.
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dot JP is the country code Top-Level-Domain for Japan. With .JP we have
yet added another further asian TLD to the Domain-Portfolio. Asia is a market with a huge potential.
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.LA is the country code Top-Level-Domain of Lao People's Democratic
Republic and the registry is maintained by Afilias, the official
registry for .INFO as the technical contractual partner of LA Names.
From a marketing perspective .LA is being promoted as the "world's
first and only city to receive its own unique Internet Address; .LA" Los Angeles.
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.SG is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Singapore. A
com.SG is targetted at commercial entities which are either registered
or are about to be registered with the Registry of Companies and
Businesses. A foreign company, which is not so registered may only
apply for such a domain name if it appoints a locally registered
entitiy as its administrative contact. Our partner in Singapore
provides this address as an included service, meaing the domain com.SG
is unrestricted for internatonal companies.
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.TW is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Taiwan. At this
point in time you can only register com.TW (targetted at companies),
org.TW (targetted at organisations) and idv.TW (targetted at
individuals) Domains. TWNIC and NeuLevel Inc. just announced the
introduction of three further extensions beneath .TW: game.TW, club.TW
and ebiz.TW. Furthermore you can register .TW IDNs beneath the
Second-Level with chinese characters according to the IETF Standards.
TWNIC the official registry is momentarily analysing the possibility of
introducting .TW in the Second-Level.
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.MD is the country-code-Top-Level-Domain of the Republic of Moldova.
This ccTLD is dedicated to the global healthcare sector. A .MD Internet
Address distinctively identifies individuals and companies as members of the healtcare community.
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.AC is the country code Top-Level-Domains of Ascension Island, .IO is
the country code Top-Level-Domain of the British Indian Territory,
.SH is the country code Top-Level-Domain of Saint Helena. All three of
these ccTLDs can be registered by anyone fore a time period of one
year.  The
are all real-time registries, meaning that domains can be registered
within seconds, whois-updates are processed immediately and DNS-updates are processed twice a day.
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.SC is the official country code Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) of the
Seychelles. This domain can be marketed for different purposes.
SCotland, South Carolina, extension for SCience, SportClubs or simply
because you are either from the Seychelles or you have business associated with the Seychelles.
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.IN (also co.IN, net.IN, org.IN, firm.IN, gen.IN and ind.IN) is the
official country code Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) of India. All .IN
domains can be registered and maintained in real-time. Register your domain today and secure your Web-Presence in India.
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.RU is the official country code Top-Level-Domains of the Federation of
Russia. You can only register new .RU Domains and renew these accordingly.
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.UA is the official country code Top-Level-Domains of the Ukraine.
You can only register new .UA Domains and all subdomains.
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.IT is the official country code Top-Level-Domain for Italy. .IT domain
registrations require that a signed form be sent to the official
registry requesting that the respective domain be registered in the name of the registrant.
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.NL is the official country code Top-Level-Domains of the Netherlands.
dot NL is currently the third largest ccTLD in Europe. Anybody can
register a .NL Domain as a local presence is automatically provided.
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.ES is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Espana (Spain).
Dot ES liberalized their policies on Nov. 7th 2005 allowing any party
worldwide to register domains beneath .ES, com.ES, org.ES and/or
nom.ES. Spain is bound to become one fo the top five ccTLDs in Europe.
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.VC is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of St. Vincent and
the Grenadines. Any corporation or private entity worldwide can
register domains beneath .VC, com.VC, net.VC and/or org.VC.
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.TM is the country code Top-Level-Domain of Turkmenistan. Dot TM is
marketed as "TradeMark" and therefore you register the domain for 10
years in advance. Anybody worldwide can register a .TM Domain.
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IM - ccTLD of the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is a self-governing crown dependency located within the
British Isles although constitutionally separate from the United
Kingdom. In 1996 the Isle of Man Government obtained permission to use
the im National Top Level Domain (TLD) and has ultimate responsibility
for its use. The domain is managed on a daily basis by Domicilium (IOM)
Limited, an island based internet service provider.
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MN - ccTLD of Mangolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country located in East Asia. Mongolia is also
sometimes classified as being a part of Central Asia, depending on the
definition used. It is bordered by Russia to the north and the People's
Republic of China to the south. Its capital and largest city is Ulaanbaatar.
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CH & LI - ccTLD of Swiss and Liechtenstein
Therefore we are now able to fully implement these ccTLDs of Switzerland and Liechtenstein into our
System. The SWITCH partner status enables us to offer all relevant
transactions like domain registrations, transfers and modifications in
an automated fashion. The extension .LI can be marketed as the last or first name "Li" in the asian region.
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GD - ccTLD of Grenada
Grenada is an island nation in the southeastern Caribbean Sea including
the southern Grenadines. GD is is run by Adamsnames on behalf of the
Government of Grenada and can therefore be managed like .TC, .VG &
.MS domains. There are no special restrictions and no local presence is needed.
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CX - ccTLD of Christmas Island
The Territory of Christmas Island is a small, non-self-governing
territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean, 2,360 kilometres
(1,466 mi) northwest of Perth in Western Australia and 500 kilometres
(310 mi) south of Jakarta, Indonesia.
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KI - ccTLD of Kiribati
Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation
located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. It comprises 33 atolls close to the equator.
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MU - ccTLD of Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation
off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900
kilometers (560 mi) east of Madagascar.
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NF - ccTLD of Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a small inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean located
between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, and along with two
neighbouring islands forms one of Australia's external territories.
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TL - ccTLD of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste or Timor-Leste is a country in
Southeast Asia comprising the eastern half of the island of Timor. The
small country is located about 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Darwin, Australia.
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MX - ccTLD of Mexico
With more than 200,000 registered domains, Mexico is one of the largest
ccTLD of Central America. After the close-by .BZ (Belize) and several other Carribean ccTLDs.
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NZ - ccTLD of New Zealand To further extend our portfolio of the Asia-Pacific region.
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We want to bring to your attention a domain name renewal scam that is currently making the rounds. This scam
is not new, but Registrants continue to fall victim to this practice on a daily basis.
We recommend that you inform your customers of this practice so they are aware of how the scam works, and so
that you can protect both your customers and yourself from losing domain registrations to these companies.
The scam works this way: unethical companies monitor the publicly accessible WHOIS database and obtain
registrant contact information as well as domain expiry dates. Using the information, they mail domain
Registrants an official looking document, months in advance of the renewal date, encouraging the Registrant to
renew the name now to protect themselves from losing that domain name. When the Registrant renews the name by
paying the invoice, the domain is not only renewed, but a Registrar transfer is initiated to the unscrupulous
Registrar.
There are a number of ways to combat the practice:
