Every week, Managing Internet IP will provide an independent guide to protecting domain names in a particular top-level domain. This week: .eu, the ccTLD for the European Union
Every week, Managing Internet IP will provide an independent guide to protecting domain names in a particular top-level domain. This week: .ru and .РФ, the ccTLDs for Russia
Every week, Managing Internet IP will provide an independent guide to protecting domain names in a particular top-level domain. This week: .tel, the directory gTLD
In our fourth registry profile, we look at .uk, the third most popular ccTLD on the web
In our fifth TLD guide we look at the latest ccTLD to try its hand as a gTLD: .co. Prior to the re-launch the domain was only available in the third level, but .co is hoping to cash in on the lack of availability of good domains in gTLDs, particularly .com.
The .org domain has been around a long time, 1984 to be exact, and has become a de facto TLD for websites of organisations, corporations and community groups
Switzerland’s .ch TLD is similar to its European neighbours such as Germany in that it is widely used in the country
The British Crown Dependency of the Isle of Man has developed a niche TLD that is popular with instant messaging and social networks
Despite Malaysia’s .my TLD possessing favourable characteristics to launch it as a quasi-gTLD, the domain remains for residents and businesses of Malaysia
The .mobi TLD was designed to capitalise on the growing mobile internet market, and with just less than 1 million registrations is doing reasonably well so far
The Norwegian TLD .no requires registrants to have a presence in Norway. At the moment only organisations can register a .no domain, but the registry wants to offer individuals the chance to register domains again soon
The .coop sponsored TLD is restricted to cooperative organisations, making it one of the more esoteric domains online.
Some people refuse to move with the times and, despite pressure from Icann, the .su ccTLD assigned to the USSR 15 months before the communist state’s demise is still taking registrations
The South African domain .za is the African continent’s most popular country-code TLD. As the country prepares to host the football World Cup, Managing Internet IP examines how it works
With the Icann machine rolling into Brussels next week, Managing Internet IP examines the Belgian .be domain, one of the more successful country-codes
Anyone registering a .ca domain must have some connection with Canada – which gives the domain a distinctly Canadian feel
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