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123-reg: first to a million .uk domains

By John - March 26, 2008

123-reg has become the first .uk tag holder to amass over a million domains on a single tag.   What does this mean? Well, essentially, we’re now responsible for the management of over a...

30% off new domains with web hosting

By 123 Reg - March 13, 2008

Back in February, we added brand new domains to our portfolio. These include: .cn (China) .es (Spain) .at (Austria) .be (Belgium) To celebrate the new additions to our domain portfolio, we are giving 30% off each of...

Spot the tricks and stop domain name scams

By John - March 10, 2008

We wrote about a typical domain name scam a couple of weeks ago. Since then, a couple of people in the office have been targeted, so we thought we’d revisit the subject...

The economics of domain disputes

By John - February 21, 2008

Another day, another well known name involved in a domain name dispute. This time it’s The Economist, which has failed to wrestle control of theeconomist.com from a chap called Jason Rose. He bought...

The longest domain in the world?

By John - February 15, 2008

For some reason, conversation in the office earlier this week turned to long domain names. Specifically, we were wondering what the longest domain name in the world is. A quick bit of research...

How to avoid domain name scams

By John - February 14, 2008

There’s a nice post over on the Tucows blog warning about fake domain name renewal notices. Tucows is a wholesale domain name registrar, so the advice is aimed mainly at other domain...

All aboard for record-breaking domain sale

By John - February 11, 2008

We’ve written before about the most expensive domain names ever. And just last week, a new price record was set for a .co.uk domain. As the Register notes, the domain name cruises.co.uk changed...

A must for any domain geek’s office wall

By 123 Reg - February 8, 2008

Whilst surfing the typography forums in a bid to find the perfect logo typeface, I stumbled across a very interesting example of map making. A stroke of design genius, the Country Codes of...

MySpace awarded myspace.co.uk

By John - February 1, 2008

A high-profile domain name dispute came to an end earlier this week. MySpace, the News Corporation-owned social networking site won the right to have the domain name myspace.co.uk transferred to it. The ruling was...