On 30 November at 10.00 am, several changes to the domain name policy for .no will be implemented. The domain quota will be increased, the rules surrounding the complaint fee will be changed, and youth and student businesses get their own second-level category domain. The domain quota increases from 20 to 100 domains per organization. …
The service slettmeg.no (deleteme.no) is one of many puzzle parts that contributes to make the Internet safer and better, especially for children and youngsters. Services like this are important and should be strengthened. The Norwgian Data Protection Agency has done a very good job to establish and run this service, and phasing it out will …
27 million domain names within 104 different top level domains are investigated with regard to risk for virus and other threats. Japan is on top, while the Republic of Cameroon is ranked on the bottom. All the Nordic countries are ranked among the safe top level domains, with Sweden as the best in the Nordic …
The Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority has chaired a national working group that has considered the need for new top level domains with national significance like .oslo. The working group, where Norid has participated, handed over their final report to the Minister of Transport and Communications on 11 March. The report proposes a strategy for …
At the start of 2008 there are 360,000 domain names registered in the .no database. This is an increase of 60,000 during the last year. No matter where we turn in the public sphere we come upon Internet addresses: in the media, in commercials and all types of services, public as well as private. This …
2009 seems to be an exciting year for the domain name field and the development of the Internet in general. Important processes on the global arena will probably have decisive impact on our national domain name business. In addition several national initiatives will be of great importance. The statement which says that Internet is becoming …
At the beginning of 2010 the tug of war over the Internet continues at full force on several fronts. On the one hand there is a democratization going on as the Internet becomes accessible for more people, which will also increase the commercial possibilities. On the other hand we can see the outline of a …
As notified in 2006 the phasing-out period for the first batch of names that have been reserved on the basis of national considerations is over. The following names are no longer reserved and have been removed from the appendix: kongen – Det Kongelige Hoff (The Royal Court) dronningen – Det Kongelige Hoff dronninga – Det …
The trial arrangement on returning the complaint fee when the complainant are supported by the body continues until further notice. The total funding scheme for the alternative resolution body will be considered during this year. As from the establishment of the body in 2003, the costs have been covered partly through a complaint fee and …
