Where does .co come from?

.co is the country code for Colombia. But anyone can buy and use .co domains.

If the word you want to register ends in .co, you can get a neat domain (for instance, you could have www.fordmexi.co).

Only £7.00 per year – click here for more.

Sooner or later you will receive, via the post (snail mail) a very convincing renewal reminder for your domain, regardless of where you domain is actually registered, they don’t care, they just want your money.
On the bottom of this letter will be a payment slip suggesting that if you send them payment they will renew your domain, however/but - unless your domain is registered with the ‘Domain Registry of America’ they cannot actually renew it, only your current registrar can do this, in this case they will request that the domain is transferred to them so they can renew it.

Court judgements have been served on DROA, read more here and here, in fact if you search google you will find loads of complaints about this company and their ‘domain slamming’ con.

If you do get a renewal letter from DROA, recyle it, do not pay them anything else you risk loosing your domain.

If you haven’t already got your .TV domain – you’re missing out on the second highest selling TLD (not including .COM) sold in January 2009.
.TV is receiving a lot of publicity as the destination for rich media on the Internet. If .TV isn’t a part of your web site hostong, then you may be missing out on quailified traffic coming to your website.

What’s unusual about dot-tel is that customers buying the names can’t build a traditional Web site. Dot-tel is the equivalent of an online Yellow Pages.

Each owner of a dot-tel name can use it to list names, phone numbers, physical addresses, Web addresses, Twitter and Facebook pages.

The domain is intended largely for users of mobile phones, who can find it difficult to navigate a Web site on a tiny screen. The listings work on any computer connected to the Internet.

.info domain names are proving to very popular, get yours before someone else does.
Sales of .info domain names increased by 30% in the last month, you have to ask your self “why?”.
There are 2 reasons, companies want to make sure they own their own .info to prevent someone else ‘cybersquatting’ on it, and the search engines like them.

Protect your online identity

Did you know that when you register a domain name, the contact details you supply are made publicly available using a service called ‘whois‘?

This information is held by the domain registrar companies and is perfectly legal in all countries.
As this information is easily accessed by the public it can be a source of SPAM, email marketing and even could be used to try and steal your domain name.

Don’t Panic, help is at hand and it is very easy, all you need to do is login to your Mantis Computing Client Area and from here you can tick the box that says ‘Opt out of whois’ – this is free for .co.uk domains, .com and others do have a small charge of approx £10.

If you want to find out more about this service then please get in touch.