Currently .uk domain names can be registered for a 2 year period. Now Nominet, the organisation in charge of .uk domain names are considering the possibility of introducing other registration periods.
This would allow registrants to think more long term about their domain strategies, allowing them to register their domain for longer periods.
Nominet are asking for feedback from registrars
‘power.com’, a premium domain name has come up for sale on the open market.
It’s another example of a great domain name that is expecting minimum bids in the region of $2.5 million. It’s rumored that prospective purchasers include some high profile individuals and organisations.
Of course the most obvious industry to have a interest in this domain name would be the power or energy area. Yet more abstract industries could be those connected to energy drinks, online gambling or health and fitness related products.
A few recent domain sales including, beer.com that reached $7 million, fund.com that fetched $9.9 million show just how much such prominent domain names are worth to companies or personal investors.
The BBC today reported that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenues. The article suggests that misspellings are often responsible for putting consumers off, and giving them cause for concern over the websites credibility.
These concerns were also echoed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), whose head of education and skills warned that too many employers are now having to invest in literacy lessons for their staff.
Exactly the same is true of domain names. Many visitors are lost due to the miss-spelling of your domains. For example, if they were looking for Siteopia.com and entered Sitopia.com they could be taken to a completely different website, unless of course that we have registered the misspelt version of our web address.
It is really useful for brands to register common misspelt versions of their domain names to compensate for the growing amount of spelling errors happening everyday.
To avoid losing visitors and potentially losing out on many online sales, consider registering these versions of your domain names.
Yesterday the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the managed registry for Ireland’s official Internet address- .ie, reported that registrations of the domain reached their highest ever total for a three month period. A massive 10,812 .ie domains were registered in Q2 of 2011, giving a 6.8% increase on the same period in 2010.
The highest ever single month for registrations was reported in May with over 4,000 new .ie created.
All figures for the .ie domain show a steady increase in demand for the suffix. Most registrations coming from Irish sole traders and organisations with a presence throughout Ireland accounting for 81% of the registrations
Following the last ever edition of the News Of The World on Sunday it is believed that News International has purchased domain names including: sunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.co.uk.
Nominet’s Whois records were updated on the 8th July to show that the domains are in fact now owned by the News International group. Giving a clear indication of what the groups next move for the paper maybe.
This paves the way for the launch of a replacement title for the News of the World (NoW). Such a move could see the companies daily newspaper ‘The Sun’ turn into a seven- day operation.
Domain name purchases can give a clear indication into the intention of some major companies.