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Namesco has been informed that there may be possible intermittent issues with the .VE Registry and resolution of domain names may be affected as well. It’s reported that there have been recent problems accessing even the Registry’s website and accessing some websites in Venezuela has become erratic lately.

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NIC.DO, the Dominican Republic registry, has announced the extension of the grandfathering period until 10 June 2010 to allow for more applications for 2nd-level .DO domains. Registrants of existing 3rd-level Domains (.com.do, .net.do, .org.do etc.), during this period will be given priority to register their matching 2nd-level domain.

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The Argentinian Registry (NIC.AR) has recently issued an important notice on their website. They are warning registrants that they must ensure their contact and other data* associated with their Domain names are accurate and up to date, or risk losing those Domains. It’s particularly important for the Registrant email address to be valid.

NIC.AR are stating that discovery of incorrect registrant data (name, address, telephone no. ), use of false names, corporate names missing, etc., could result in the deletion of the Registrant, which would automatically delete ALL Domains for that registrant.

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Nominet, the national registry for .UK Domain names has announced their intention to allow registration of one character, two letter and other reserved .UK Domain names which are currently not permitted. This is an exciting opportunity potentially opening up valuable new Domains.

Nominet has begun a consultation period on the proposed release lasting until 8 June 2010 and they would like to gather feedback from any stakeholders (including Registrants – so now is your time to speak up!).

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AFNIC, the French Registry has a strong identification and eligibility process which verifies the holder of the Domain. As of 1 March 2010, AFNIC has added a new procedure to this policy.

AFNIC may delete, at its own discretion, Domain names that do not follow the naming charter after identification operations and/or eligibility checks.

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Increasing numbers of our clients are receiving unsolicited third party emails from the Far East coercing them to buy international Domains. These alarming emails create such impact that you may feel pressured into reactively purchasing at a high cost rather than protecting your brand online with a controlled and planned strategy.

Most emails declare they are from a professional ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ organization and claim to have received a request from a potential customer to register multiple Domain names identical to yours (in various different extensions or an ‘internet brand’ - sometimes referred to as ‘internet keywords’).

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Namesco the award winning Domain and Hosting provider further improves its Broadband service by offering the latest Netgear router. Our customers can now get a Free Netgear DG834GUK v5 router with each new Broadband package purchased.

NETGEAR has a long standing reputation for quality and reliability and the NETGEAR DG834G v5 wireless modem router adds considerable power and flexibility to your network. Five products in one, it combines an ADSL2+ modem, router, 10/100 LAN switch, 802.11g wireless access point, and SPI statefull firewall.

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Those customers that had already registered a Dominican Republic, ART.DO, COM.DO, NET.DO, ORG.DO, SLD.DO, WEB.DO extension before October 30th 2009 had the ability to complete the .do registration before March 10th 2010.

Now, all unregistered .do domain names will be served on a first come, first served basis.

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Few businesses give lots of thought to their domain names until it’s too late, and most don’t have an internal domain name policy or guidelines in place.

Can You Answer These Key Questions ?

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If you have already registered a .cn domain name please ensure you pay particular attention to the expiry date as if this is lost, you may not be able to secure it again. Late in 2009 the Chinese registry decided to take action to try and prevent the number of malicious registrations. As of 20 December, 2009, CNNIC is requiring documentation to accompany all .CN domain registrations.

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