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Is your name on the web?

By John - January 4, 2008

I don’t generally read Canadian news sites on a regular basis, but I just picked up a story on CTV.ca about Canadians who are buying up personal domain names. One of the story’s points...

Total domains now 146 million – VeriSign

By John - December 12, 2007

Hot on the heels of the November report from Nominet, VeriSign – the global registry operator for .com and .net domains – has released its quarterly report into the state of the domain...

140,000 a month? Nominet report reveals all

By John - December 11, 2007

Towards the end of November, Nominet – the organisation which runs the .uk domain registry – released its domain name industry report. This is the first one they’ve produced – the stated...

The first .com domain names

By John - December 3, 2007

If you went back in time to the internet in 1985, you probably wouldn’t recognise it. At first glance, there wouldn’t be much in common with the mp3’ed up,  socially-networked, anyone-can-have-a-website internet that we...

Changes to nameserver settings

By John - November 22, 2007

As a result of the weekend’s problems, we received lots of feedback about how you’d like to be able to manage your nameserver settings. Our dev team has been working to make sure...

It’s always first come, first served

By John - November 2, 2007

Have you ever thought up a great domain name, punched it into our domain search tool and found – to your surprise – that it’s available? If so, I’ve a cautionary tale for...

What’s your domain name worth?

By John - October 5, 2007

Chat in the office yesterday turned to the subject of how much domain names are worth. Bundle of laughs, us lot. Anyway, a quick bit of work on Google revealed that the most anyone’s...

.mobi domains now cheap as chips

By 123 Reg - September 14, 2007

Our .mobi domains have been reduced from £11.99 to £4.99 per year which means you save a whopping £7 for every domain you register. And when you buy domains in bulk – it...

Google desktop domain name search tool

By 123 Reg - September 11, 2007

So far we have launched an iGoogle domain search tool and a Microsoft Vista Sidebar domain search widget . To add to these we have now added a Google desktop domain search plug...