The hot topic at congress this month is online piracy. Both houses will be combating copyright infringement laws on movies, music and intellectual property right laws. The entertainment industry is pushing for the harshest punishments for offenders and his hoping congress will see how important the technology sector is and how its supporting the US economy. A house proposal is suggesting that service providers such as google should block infringing websites that violate laws. To read further please click here.

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The National Internet Exchange in India claims that the one millionth .IN registration has been made. India’s information industry is lacking tremendously and only 8% of the population is using the internet, although more than 70 % of the population has cell phones. There is a potential to have new sites emerging in India, where there are 800 million cell phone connections and the possibly for them to gain internet access on their cell phones could be huge to the internet industry. If the industry and government push to advance there could be a giant boom in registrations in India.  To read further please click here.

The news was released that because of the recent disasters it has left many Japanese without the capacity to renew their domain names.  The .ORG .ASIA and .IN registries.ORG have announced that they will waive all fees for Japanese residents whose renewal  was during the march 11- april 30, 2011 period. It will only help those people who have domain names registered with the country address Japan. Although the country will not ultimately renew the domain names we ask all registrars to waive the fee. 101Domain is participating in this program.  .ORG is looking to expand this program to 3 months ending on June 11, 2011.

With the recent tragedy in Japan many observers are hoping for a quick recovery from this unforeseen natural disaster. Now known as one of the largest disasters in history it has caused many deaths and economic hardship for Japan. These kind of disasters have repercussions that are not limited to the immediate country, but for all.  The quickest way to relieve such a disaster is in-kind monetary donations. These kind of donations will help fund basic human needs that are almost impossible to live without.  Wouldn’t you want the help if you were in a situation like this one.  To Help Text the words “Japan” or “Quake” to 80888 to make a $10 donation.

The CEO of Telnic, London, considers this “the near future, organizations with numeric-only trademarks or with two letter brands will be able to register their .tel names and individuals will be able to get unique or lucky number as a fun online identifier.”  What are these TLD’s? The ICANN staff admitted the release of both numeric .tel TLD’s and short TLD’s like jk.tel. In over 180 countries 300,000 .tel names have been registered. However,  these names are not available for registration if you would like more information please contact http://telnic.org.

There are many cultural identities and languages that make up India and ICAAN approved seven new ccTLD’s to support different local languages. The new ccTLD’s are: भारत (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--h2brj9c”; بھارت “Bharat”), encoded as “xn--mgbbh1a71e”; భారత్ (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--fpcrj9c3d”; ભારત (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--gecrj9c”; ਭਾਰਤ (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--s9brj9c”; இந்தியா (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--xkc2dl3a5ee0h”; and ভারত (“Bharat”), encoded as “xn--45brj9c. This is such a positive step to have the different entities of a culture recognized and get connected with new domains.

On October 10, 2010 the Netherland Antilles officially split and Curacao and Sint Maarten became autonomous territories of the Netherlands.  The Netherlands is now the administrator for Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius.  Three months later three new country-code top-level domains were created to denote the separation of the islands,  and after one week the IANA added the new ccTLD’s to their database. The new ccTLD’s appeared on the market during Christmas.  What does that mean for buyers? Although the opportunity to buy has passed the new ccTLD’s remain profitable. Even the countries governments have to apply for their own ccTLD’s, which largely are owned by domain name companies. The countries are small and have few traffic so it won’t be time for high volumes buys of ccTLD’s, but some profit is possible. Hilariously enough, one of the new ccTLD’s (Sint Maarten) has a new ccTLD called .sx, which can easily fail victim to bad usage.  At any rate there are new ccTLD’s, which help the IANA database grow and create new internet identities for those countries.

This February/March, the Hong Kong Domain Name Registration Company Limited will launch the new Chinese .香港 Domain.   The partial IDN domains like 公司.hk will be replaced with the new full IDN like .公司.香港.      There will be a corresponding .香港 domain category for every Chinese .hk category.    No applications will be accepted for the partial IDN domains from January 18, 2011 onwards.  All registered Chinese .hk domain names will still be usable and continue to be supported.  Further, for those customers who have registered a Chinese .hk domain name, a corresponding Chinese .香港 will be automatically allocated for free after the launch.

Take this opportunity to register your Chinese .hk domain name now with 101domain.com to take advantage of this priority offer, and get your corresponding .香港 domain for free when it is launched.