The dot-ME top level domain replaced the dot-YU (Yugoslavia) domain previously used by Serbia and Montenegro. In addition to declaring .me independent of .yu. It’s been popular for personal users, who create personal sites about themselves.

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.

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 [...]

Unfortunately the Chinese Registrar CNNIC has severely restricted new registrations of CN domains following Google’s pull-out of the country. Initially we were informed that registrations would still be possible with Chinese-based providers but now CNNIC have introduced requirements for color headshot photo identification, business identification (with Chinese business registration number), and physical signed registration forms [...]

In a reaction to reports of pornography appearing on .CN domain names, the Chinese authorities have decided to limit domain ownership to companies only. Individuals may no longer register CN domains. This move has been accompanied by a tightening of the procedure for company registrations. The Chinese authorities wish to be sure that CN domains [...]

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) were opened on .EU domains this week. During the first hour 38,172 EU IDN’s were successfully registered.. “The significant number of registered names during the first hour shows how important it is for people across Europe to be able to access and use the internet in their own languages” said EURid’s [...]

DotAsia plans to launch IDN or Internationalised Domain Names in the second half of 2010.Their policy for IDN will be finalised in March 2010 after the APRICOT conference in Kuala Lumpur. Asia is one of the most important regions for IDN. Asia is already the largest Internet marketplace with over 700 million users online. However, [...]

The CZ.NIC association has reported that 600’000 CZ domains have been registered as of September 30 2009. IT has taken less than 10 months to get to the first 1/2 million CZ domains registered. They attribute this success to their new domain registration system, named FRED which has speeded up the process and allowed the [...]