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Archive for the 'Domain Name Articles' Category
September 8 2011
Domain Names Continue Grow in 2011
Latest Domain Name Industry report shows 8.6 percent year over year growth Quarter after quarter, the domain name business continues to grow. Verisign’s second quarter 2011 domain name study reported that there were 5.2 million new domain names added in the second quarter of 2011. On a year-over-year basis, the second quarter growth is an [...]
April 1 2011
DNSSEC finally goes mainstream
DNSSEC, a more secure version of the internet domain name to IP address lookup protocol, was enabled on the .com top-level domain on Thursday. The move by VeriSign, the operator of .com, marks an important milestone in the adoption of the technology, now accessible to 80 million registered domains. The internet’s root servers at the [...]
March 22 2011
.DE Domains are now available !
Dear All At aalpha NET, we always ensure that our Client/Resellers are equipped with the most popular products to expand their business. True to this objective, we are happy to announce the upcoming launch of Europe’s most popular ccTLDs, .DE & .ES. .DE domain names use an independent Contact database in the system. Contacts for [...]
November 30 2010
Total Domain Registrations Broke the 200 Million Barrier in 3Q-2010
Versign released their latest quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (.pdf file) today. The new DNIB, covering the 3rd quarter of 2010, reports that the total number of domain names registered worldwide has crashed through the 200 million barrier. The global domain base rose by 3.8 million in 3Q-2010 to a record total of 202 million. [...]