The spanish government has decided to pass a new legislation that will block websites selling pirated material within ten days of being online. The new law is called the Sinde law named after the Spanish Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez- Sinde. The Intellectual Property Commission will decide whether the website will have legal repercussions. The entertainment industry is pleased about this new law, but bloggers and many online-journalists find that this law is pretty harsh. To read further click here.

The Internet made a new stride yesterday and is emerging  with possibilities for anyone to register web address suffixes for 185,000 dollars. This launch is the  so-called dot brand names and has endless opportunities for marketers to make brand new images for companies online. These new changes have not gone well with the federal trade commission and warned businesses that this new gTLD system could be a nightmare. Forty of the world’s largest companies have already complained to ICANN and to FTC that this will increase costs and they don’t see the benefit.  Applicants have until April 12th to sign up. The first domains will be seen in 2013.  To read further on this story click here.

The domain Vatican.xxx has not been registered by a pornographic company and was previously removed by the ICM registry prior to the public launch of the domain name earlier this month. Vatican.xxx is on the permanent reserve list, in other words no one will ever be able to purchase that domain name.  The new domain names were only recently released to the public last month and had several sunrise phases in order to have companies and trademark holders register in advance. The Vatican spokesman last week spoke too soon last week and Vatican.xxx will never make an appearance on the world wide web.  To read further please click here. 

Praise was awarded to the United States Federal Trade Commission from the Association of National Advertisers for sending a 15-page letter to ICANN highlighting the specific problems and concerns with the new gTLD program.  The letter voiced concerns and stated “the potential for significant consumer harm resulting from the unprecedented increase in gTLDs.” The letter also stated that they believe all the concerns they have about the program can be fixed prior to being released. The Federal Trade Commission fears that the consumer may have problems and lose confidence in the internet as a whole. The FTC outlined five steps to resolve the problems. To read further please click here.

1. Implement the new gTLD program as a pilot program and substantially reduce the number of gTLDs that are introduced in the first application round
2. Strengthen ICANN’s contractual compliance program, in particular by hiring additional compliance staff
3. Develop a new ongoing program to monitor consumer issues that arise during the first round of implementing the new gTLD program
4. Conduct an assessment of each new proposed gTLD’s risk of consumer harm as part of the evaluation and approval process
5. Improve the accuracy of Whois data, including by imposing a registrant verification requirement

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On December 6th Europe will have the opening of  TLD’s that are operated by AFNIC among those being . WF (Wallis and Futuna), .TF (French Southern and Antarctic territories), .RE (Reunion Island), .PM (St. Pierre and Miquelon), and .YT(Mayotte).Eligibility is to be extended to natural persons resident and legal entities having their registered office or principal place of business in the territory of a Member State of the European Union.

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.WF  http://101domain.com/wf.htm

.TF   http://101domain.com/tf.htm

.RE  http://101domain.com/re.htm

.PM http://101domain.com/pm.htm

.YT  http://101domain.com/yt.htm

DENIC recently celebrated the 25th birthday of the .DE country code and the second largest TLD registrations. .DE was the largest TLD for a significant about of time, but recently was surpassed by .CN. There are currently still over a 100,000 requests for the .DE address and almost 3,000 are approved daily. Today in the world there are over 14.6 million .DE addresses in use. To read further please click here.

On December 6th Europe will have the opening of  TLD’s that are operated by AFNIC among those being .fr. The new legal framework that was establish in March will dictate the procedures and laws  surrounding the release.  The French territories  Wallis, Futana, French Southern, Antarctic, Reunion Island, St.Pierre, Miquelon, and Mayotte  are all under the AFNIC to the same rules as  the .fr TLD. To read further please click here.

Norwegian Companies will on November 30, 2011 have  the capability to register for more than 100 domain names. Previously companies were confined to owning only 20 domains, which caused problems for large companies. There has been clear indications from companies that they had a real need for this increase.The 20 domain registrations were just not cutting for companies. To read more on this article please click here.

With Internationalized Domain Names (or IDNs), it is possible for domain names to be expressed in a language other than Latin.  Top and Secondary level domains continue to join the ranks of those extensions capable of internationalization, and now the Ukraine has added two more SLDs capable of being registered in Cyrillic:  .COM.UA and .KIEV.UA domains.  A domain name must contain one Cyrillic symbol minimum (must be visually different from Latin), and may include digits (0-9) or a hyphen in addition to the Cyrillic symbols.

General registration begins today, open to anyone, with terms ranging from 1 to 10 years.

101domain.com is committed to meeting your domain needs through service and product availablity.  Visit our .COM.UA or .KIEV.UA search pages, or for access to IDN Cyrillic keyboard and search, visit our IDN pages for IDN.COM.UA and IDN.KIEV.UA.