Change brings new life to .PT
The Registry of .PT (Portugal) has updated its registration rules on 2 February 2021, making register .PT domain names more accessible: The disappearance of a number of second level extensions, including .EDU.PT and ORG.PT, among others, leaving only .PT, .COM.PT and .GOV.PT. Two-character domain names no longer have special rules and will ...
Brexit and .fr domain names
Since the UK is no longer a member of the EU, from 1 January UK residents are no longer eligible for the .fr TLD or any of the other TLDs managed by Afnic. As to those holders of domain names registered before 1 January 2021 and resident in the UK, they can keep the domain name, renew it and transfer it to an eligible new ...
We are back!
A fire at a French cloud services firm has caused 3.6 million websites to be taken offline. According to internet monitors, the most affected country code top-level domain (ccTLD) was .fr, "which had 184,000 knocked-out websites spread across 59,600 distinct domain names —these account for 1.9% of all .fr domains in the world."
After Brexit: 81,000 UK-owned .eu domains suspended
Eurid, the registry manager of .eu domain names, has suspended .eu domain names registered by UK citizens as a result of Brexit. EU regulations stipulate that .eu websites cannot be allocated to non-EU citizens who are residing in a country that is not a member state. The UK owners now have to prove their right to run a .eu domain, which ...