123 Reg logo Blog
MENU

Articles for the 'Domains' Category

Seven million and counting

By John - August 28, 2008

As reported over on the Nominet news pages, the seven millionth .uk domain has recently been registered. That’s another milestone for the .uk registry, which is still growing at a fairly impressive rate...

Googler thwarted by domain name dispute

By John - August 28, 2008

I’ve mentioned a few domain name disputes here in the last few months. Another has just caught my eye. It involves that online behemoth, Google, and a chap called Jan Jeltes from...

Domain name lessons from Dragons’ Den

By 123 Reg - August 19, 2008

Watching Dragons’ Den on BBC2 last night, I found myself literally shouting at the TV at one of the prospective investments. It was a website that has video recipes for people to watch...

dotCYM gets £20k for campaign

By John - August 13, 2008

The dotCYM campaign has been running for a little while now. The aim of the campaign is to get Wales its own domain extension – .cym If successful, websites would be able to...

Google’s confusing choice of name

By John - July 25, 2008

Back in December, Google announced something new called Knol. It’s a sort of competitor to Wikipedia. They opened it to everyone this week, so now you and I can log on and...

25 years since DNS was first tested

By John - June 23, 2008

Over on the Wired website they’re reporting that today marks 25 years since the automated Domain Name System (DNS) was first tested. The Domain Name System is one of the crucial elements of...

162 million and counting

By John - June 18, 2008

VeriSign has just released its latest Domain Name Industry Brief. You can grab a copy here (PDF, 325KB) and see the previous editions too. This quarterly report takes a look at the domain...

The Chronicles of Narnia.mobi

By John - June 17, 2008

The UK release of the next Narnia film is just round the corner and, in a handy piece of timing, the domain name narnia.mobi is at the centre of a dispute. As reported...

Celebrating with free .uk domains

By 123 Reg - May 2, 2008

Thanks to all our millions of customers we are the first to register one million .uk domains on one tag. To celebrate this, we are now giving away a free .uk domain with...