Issue 191 - 22nd July 2005

.eu pre-reg coming soon

NetNames has already received many sunrise applications for .eu from trademark holders, public bodies and holders of other prior rights, through NetNames' dedicated site for new Top Level Domains www.gtld.com. NetNames will shortly be accepting pre-registrations for the first-come, first-served period that will follow the restricted sunrise period, directly through the NetNames.com website - this will be announced in an N3 Lite special. 

.jobs and .travel coming soon

N3 Lite will shortly be announcing procedures for making applications for the forthcoming .jobs and .travel domains. NetNames will be one of only a few registrars authorised to accept applications for the restricted registration periods (equivalent to sunrise) for these new sponsored Top Level Domains (sTLDs). .travel is aimed at the travel and tourism industry, whilst .jobs is intended for employers' internal recruitment information.

General domain name news

.pk (Pakistan) now in sunrise

Just a reminder that NetNames is now taking sunrise applications for 2nd-level .pk. for trademark holders. Go to www.netnames.com.

Additional .org IDNs

In addition to the currently available German .org Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) which cater for the German umlaut character, the following additional languages will become available from 23rd July on a first-come, first-served basis: Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean (Hanguel), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish.

.pt (Portugal) IDNs now available

The sunrise period for .pt IDNs is now finished and they are now available to all eligible entities, not just those who had previously registered a .pt domain. To find out more and register .pt, please go to www.netnames.com.

.tw (Taiwan) grandfathering extension

The cut-off date for registering a third-level .tw domain in order to be eligible to take part in the .tw 'grandfathering' process has been extended to 31st July 2005. Only those who already have registered .tw at the third level will be permitted to register at the second level during a forthcoming restricted period, the dates of which are yet to be announced. The domain will made available on a first-come, first-served, unrestricted basis on or around 1st November 2005. To register domains in .com.tw, .idv.tw or .org.tw now, go to www.netnames.com.

.mobi approval by ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given approval to the .mobi sTLD, intended specifically for optimum delivery of Internet web-content to mobile phones. The first .mobi websites are expected to appear in summer 2006.