This week saw the launch of a new Arabic top-level domain name dotEmarat (.امارات). Like the .рф (.rf) domain for Russia, the domain is in the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) format. This means that the domain term and the extension itself are in Arabic characters. The idea behind these new generation of IDN domains is [...]

The Registry for the .РФ (.RF) domain reported that 184’352 domains were registered on Thursday, as the extension become available to the public. More than 36’000 addresses were taken in the first hour alone. The first 10 addresses registered Thursday were for nondescript, common nouns: работа.рф (work); видео.рф (video); автозапчасти.рф (auto parts); магазин.рф (store); бизнес.рф [...]

By any standards, the Indian market is impressive. With nearly 81m Internet users but only 6% penetration, the growth potential of the country is huge. Forrester Research predicts that India will have the third largest population of Internet users by 2013, after China and the US. Until the 30th November, you can register .IN domains [...]

For the month leading up to Christmas, you have the chance to win a new 8GB iPod Touch with every new EU registration. EURID, the EU Registry is giving away 100 of the devices during the month of December. All you have to do is register a new EU domain name between the 25th November [...]

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 [...]

Spanish (.es) domains come with a dramatic 50% discount until the end of October. 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.

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.

We’re pleased to announce that we can again take new Chinese (CN) domain registrations at GlobusDomains. Through our partnership with a domestic supplier we can now meet the strict new regulations put in place by the Chinese Registry. This will require original documentation to be lodged in China by our partner so the price has [...]

Last month the Russian Registry asked their partners, including GlobusDomains, to carry out an audit of all RU/SU domain owners. This involved us asking all our RU/SU clients to submit scans of their documents to prove individual and company ownership. It was suggested that unconfirmed domains could be prevented from delegating. Downtime is unacceptable so [...]

The Russian Registry is carrying out an audit of their domain owners and has asked all Registrars to confirm the indentity of RU/SU domain owners within their portfolio. All our customers who have registered RU or SU domain extensions must provide us with the following documentation. Personal Registrations We need you to fax or email [...]