.EU domains will get a price reduction from Jan 2007
EURid lowers the registration and renewal fee for .eu domain names. The lowered amount is from 5 - 10 euro.EURid, the registry for .eu domain names, has decided to lower the fees associated with owning a .eu domain name. As of January 1st 2007, the price for registering a domain name and the annual renewal fee will be 5 euro as opposed to today’s 10 euro.
This substantial reduction is possible thanks to the huge interest in .eu and the high number of registrations. Note that this fee, set by EURid, is charged to the accredited .eu registrars and that they in turn set the prices for their customers. Many registrars bundle their services also to include web hosting and email packages, for instance. However, EURid is convinced that the price reduction will be carried forward and that end users will also benefit from reduced registration and renewal rates, given the competition between registrars.
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November 30th | Domain Names | Comments (2) |
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October.
“There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them,” said Netcraft’s Rich Miller. (Watch as the Web gave birth to the virtual self — 2:44)
“Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million,” he said.
Bloggers, small businesses, and simplicity have combined to create the dramatic growth of sites, much of it just in the past two years.
“The bottom line is it’s much easier to create a Web site nowadays, and it’s much easier to make money with a Web site,” said Miller.
November 15th | General | Comments (0) |
$5.5 million fine for spamming in australia
Wayne Mansfield faces financial ruin after Federal Court Justice Robert Nicholson yesterday fined him $1 million and his business seminar company Clarity1 Pty Ltd $4.5 million in a 19-page judgment.
Clarity1 sent more than 213 million commercial emails, 41 million of them to 5.6 million addresses illegally “harvested†from the internet, between April 2004 and April 2006.
The nature of the breaches of the Spam Act, enacted in April 2004, was “flagrant and unapologeticâ€, the judgment said.
Australian Communications and Media Authority anti-spam team manager Bruce Matthews said it was the first successful prosecution under the Act. “We are very happy with the decision because we think it sends a very strong message to potential Australian spammers that we will vigorously enforce the Spam Act,†he said.
November 15th | Legal Issues | Comments (0) |