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.CO Domain Name – What’s it? How to Register? When?

.Co is the country code domain for Colombia. Recently the government took the steps to open up the domain. The two letter word Co is universally understood as an abbreviation for “Company,” “Corporation” and “Commerce”. .CO domains will become available to anyone in the world from July 20. To celebrate the upcoming launch of the .CO, the historic single letter domain name e.CO is up for auction. […]

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.COM Domain Name Celebrates 25 Years (March 15, 1985 – 2010)

March 15, 2010 marks the 25 years of the .COM domain names. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics Inc. registered the first .com Internet domain name symbolics.com. Symbolics Inc. is then a Cambridge, Massachusetts based maker of computer systems and software based on research done at MIT. They signed up the first .com with Network Solutions. The Symbolics.com Web site still exists, but was purchased in 2009 by XF.com, an Internet domain investment firm. […]

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.POST Domain Name for Global Postal Services

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the authority for assigning domain names has approved the new address dot post (.post) for global postal services. The .post top level domain (TLD) name will be managed by the UN’s Universal Postal Union. The .post domains are expected to be online by the second half of 2010. People who access a .post site will immediately recognise it as belonging to a valid postal service or provider of postal services. […]