EuroDNS Blog

2011 was an eventful year for EuroDNS as we participated in many tradeshows and events taking place all over the world.


The year started with EuroDNS being present at Domain pulse which took place in Vienna, Austria on February 17-18, 2011. Domain pulse is the most important event in the German-speaking world for current topics and trends associated with domain names. The event was hosted by the Austrian Registry nic.at.

On February 22-24, 2011, EuroDNS along with its partner LuxCloud, a market leading provider of cloud computing services, took part in Parallels Summit 2011 as Silver sponsors of the event, which took place in Orlando, FL. Parallels Summit was the place to gain exclusive and comprehensive insight into the lucrative business opportunities with SMBs in 2011.

Concurrently on February 23-25 2011, EuroDNS was Platinum sponsor of Punta 2011, the 3rd International Internet Marketing & Domaining Conference held in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. The conference provided a great opportunity to make new businesses, improve the performance of activities, network with other domainers and helped in updating one's knowledge in all areas of this market.

Shortly after, EuroDNS took part in Domain Roundtable as Gold Sponsors of the event was hosted in the Bahamas on March 1-4, 2011.  Domain Roundtable is an annual conference focusing on domain names and new products, technologies and companies in the domain marketplace.

EuroDNS was also Gold sponsors at WorldHostingDays along with its partner LuxCloud. The event took place in Rust, Germany on March 22 – 25, 2011. WorldHostingDays  – formerly known as WebHostingDays - is the world's largest hosting event.

More recently, EuroDNS exhibited at DomainvermarkterForum in Hamburg on September 8-9, 2011. The show was an opportunity for EuroDNS to introduce brand new domain name related portals including domainAPI and domainReseller.
• DomainAPI offers cloud based webservices that regroup all major lookup, data and transaction functions of the domain name industry.
• DomainReseller offers a single point entry to domain name registration.

That same month EuroDNS was Gold sponsor of Domain Meeting which took place in Warsaw on September 22, 2011. DomainMeeting.pl is the largest domain industry conference in Poland, which targets a wide audience, including entrepreneurs, investors and owners of websites.

Finally on October 14, 2011 EuroDNS was Silver sponsor of the fifth edition of MeetDomainers, a domain investors meeting, which was held in Warsaw, Poland. Indeed MeetDomainers is the perfect place for buying and selling domains, signing contracts and observing new technologies.

After an exciting year of travel, networking and business opportunities, EuroDNS looks forward to a promising 2012. Always a key factor in the domain name industry is keeping abreast with the latest developments, be it the release of new extensions or the latest technologies available, we make sure to do our best to be able to serve you better.

Stay tuned to know more about upcoming events and shows. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter here; http://www.eurodns.com/newsletter/

EuroDNS wishes everyone a very happy new year 2012.

2011 was a busy year for EuroDNS and we would like to share our highlights.

Last year EuroDNS customers witnessed the launch of ProDNS, had new extensions on offer like the much talked about .XXX and saw the deployment of Afternic’s Domain Listing Service. Our IT department has been busy working on improving our platform, resulting in the first upgrade being released this week. We also participated in 8 tradeshows around the world, using the opportunity to gather feedback and ideas for 2012. The EuroDNS team also saw internal improvements with a senior management re-organization with the exciting mission to take the company to the next level of success in 2012.

Early last year EuroDNS proudly announced its partnership with ProDNS. ProDNS is built on a Distributed Anycast platform, which ensures maximum uptime and resilience.As an Authorised Value-Added Reseller of ProDNS, EuroDNS is now offering its customers the enhanced service of ProDNS unique multiple AnyCast networks!

You may have noticed we carried out an upgrade to our platform on Monday 16th of January, 2012. This was to ensure the system is capable of supporting our customers for the future and give us more flexibility to enhance the product range, flexibility and usability of our systems. Over the next 12 months you will notice similar changes on other part of our systems and product ranges. The new interface  (internally referred to as ‘v3’) will bring a lot of constructive changes for the EuroDNS website. To name a few that are immediately visible; we now display prices in your preferred currency; USD and British Pounds in addition to Euros and have also integrated payment options by PayPal. You can now make use of our Namemedia API and Domain API and can now also use/benefit from our DomainRecovery services.

In 2012 we will continue to improve our systems, website and products. If there is something you’d like to see us offer, please feel free to email your suggestions to feedback@eurodns.com  and we will take that into account in our future plans.

The year was also filled with exciting promotions and offers on domain extensions. Some popular ones from the year 2011 were .ME, .FR, .DE, .EU, .NL, .BE, .INFO, and .AT amongst others. In addition to the .XXX, the COM.DE (Centralnic.) was also introduced.

In November 2011 EuroDNS observed two important events. First the company saw a top management re-org where Xavier Buck, former CEO of EuroDNS, stepped up to become the new President and Chairman of the Board while Lutz Berneke took over as EuroDNS CEO. The next important event was the integration of Premium Domain Marketplacein the EuroDNS API, through Afternic DLS. As part of this, EuroDNS deployed Afternic’s unique“Instant Transfer” technology for domain sales.

During this period, in response to significant traffic growth and customer feedback, in order to provide our customers with a more robust platform, EuroDNS moved from two nameservers to four in geographically diverse locations.

As we look forward to yet another eventful year and strive to provide all our customers with the best domain name experience, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for being a part of the fantastic year we had at EuroDNS.

Please stay tuned for this year’s events, offers on domain extensions and news by subscribing to our monthly newsletter here http://www.eurodns.com/newsletter/

It is that time of the year again where fun, frolic and festivities surrounds our lives. As we gear up for yet another Christmas, we at EuroDNS would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

As a part of our Christmas wishes we will be releasing our traditional voucher codes. These voucher codes will be valid till December 31, 2011. Don’t miss the opportunity to avail of the latest offers at EuroDNS. We are currently offering great discounts on many domain extensions.

Let us give you a sneak peak to some of these offers;

.AT available for € 19.20 use promocode DECAT to avail of this offer

.ME available for € 10 use promocode IAMME to avail of this offer

.CH available for €17.88 use promocode CHD2011 to avail of this offer

.CO.NZ available for € 27.20 use promocode JACONZ11 to avail of this offer

.COM available for € 10.80 use promocode COMDEC to avail of this offer

.IM available for € 6.00 use promocode IAMIM to avail of this offer

.IT available for € 11.20 use promocode RENEWIT11 to avail of this offer

.NL available for € 11.70 use promocode NLXMAS11 to avail of this offer

.RU available for € 6:00 use promocode RUVDNG to avail of this offer

To know more about our current offers you may visit our website http://www.eurodns.com/offers/

To receive our Christmas voucher codes please make sure you sign up for our monthly newsletter http://www.eurodns.com/newsletter/ here or alternatively follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook before next week.

Celebrating the opening of the .FR domain name to Europe now available for €9 at EuroDNS.
 
On 6 December 2011, AFNIC the Registry for the .fr extension extended eligibility to register .fr domain names to residents and legal entities throughout the European Union. Previously domain holders needed a local presence to be able to register .fr names.
 
This hugely popular TLD currently represents a third of all domain registrations in France with over 2.1 million names registered and the number is growing rapidly.
At EuroDNS we take this opportunity to celebrate this opening by offering a 50% discount to all our customers who will use the promo code SOFR4EU11. By using this offer the extension will be available for registration at €9. The offer is valid till 31 December, 2011.
 
Come be a part of this celebrated moment and register your .FR with EuroDNS here.

NORID Announces Changes in the Complaint Fee Procedure for Registering and Renewing .NO Domains

NORID - the Norwegian registry for Internet domain names - announced recently that as of November 30, 2011, the complaint fee procedure for registering or renewing a .NO domain name will be modified so that a domain holder who loses a complaint in the dispute resolution body, must cover the complaint fee.

As a result to the increase of quota from 20 to 100 maximum .NO domain names applicable to companies and other organizations, the complaint fee procedure has been changed. The modification in the procedure means that a domain holder losing a complaint in the Dispute Resolution body will need to cover the related complaint fee.

In addition existing .NO domain holders might also be charged with a fee that did not exist at the time they registered their domains. All domain holders will be informed about any additional fee so that they can choose not to renew their domain name if they do not accept the change of policy.

The Dispute Resolution Committee is a fast and inexpensive alternative to taking matters to court. It is an independent entity which processes complaints about rights to a domain name or appeals against decisions made by Norid.

Please note that the complaint fee procedure only affects organizations, not private individuals with a priv.no domain. There will be no changes made to the complaint deadline of three years, so domains that are registered before 30 November 2008 will not be affected.

For more information please kindly get in touch with EuroDNS Support team at support@eurodns.com