Domain Name News reports that the Portugal registry operator, FCCN, has been going through a process of “liberalisation” to reduce the barriers to PT domain registration. As of May 1st 2012, domain name registrants were no longer required to submit any company documents and proof of a company name or trademark to register .PT domains. [...]

Nominet, the UK Registrar, has announced that the current 2-year maximum registration period for .UK domains will be extended to 10-years. This change will come into effect on 1st May 2012. Until now it has only been possible to register a .uk domain for a two year period. The change will give businesses and consumers [...]

Now that CN domain registration has been suspended by CNNIC, users are keen to find an alternative domain to target the country. Centralnic has stepped forward with CN.COM extensions, which are completely unrestricted for users and organisations. The CN.COM domain has certainly been one of the more succcessful Centralnic domains, with 16’500 results in Google. [...]

Forester Research recently forecast that India would be the third-largest Internet market globally by 2013, behind the US and China. The statistics support this growth, with 81m users online currently (6.5% penetration) but a population of 1.1bln. Any company with a global marketing strategy would be sensible to register IN domains for their brands and [...]

As an early Christmas present, the EU Registry is offering the chance to win of of 100 iPod Touch devices. All you have to do is register a new EU domain name between the 25th November and 25th December. You then enter the competition at www.winwith.eu The Win With .eu Christmas competition runs from 25 [...]

Prices on the popular .EU domain name have been cut by 50% for November. So far 3.2m EU domain names have been registered. The only requirements are a European address for the owner contact. If you are based outside Europe then we can provide a proxy-registration. Also any EU domain registered between 25th November and [...]

The French Registry (AFNIC) has carried out a study to identify French attitudes towards the .FR domain name extension. The study was conducted with 555 internet participants from across France. 2/3 of the participants (62% of those interviewed) said they would choose the .fr Top Level Domain (TLD) when buying a domain name. 71% of [...]

For this month only you can register .US (United States) domain names at a 25% discount. The promotion is only open to new registrations, not renewals. Any company can register a US domain provided they deal with US consumers. Although COM is still the leading domain extension for America, .US is gaining ground as the [...]

Although the ME domain extension is for Montenegro, its usage has spread as the generic domain for personal sites, i.e. your-name.me. The ME Registry are running a half-price introduction offer on new registrations until December 2010. Google+

Spanish (.es) domains come with a dramatic 75% discount for May/June. With a population of 40m and the second fastest growing Internet market in Europe (according to ComScore)— .es domains are popular property. In Spanish ‘es’ means ‘is’, so other word combinations can be created on that basis. Google+