Kent State University acquired four .XXX domain names in an effort to prevent pornographers from exploting its name and its trademark.The University acquired kentstateuniversity.xxx, kent.xxx, flashes.xxx and goldenflashes.xxx.
Kent States Univeristy acquired these .XXX domain names on December 1,2011,five days before the ICM Registry made the .XXX extension available for public registrations.
The domain names are inactive and it will not host any content.
Other Universities and schools also rushed to register their .XXX domain names.llinois State University registered IllinoisState.XXX , RedBirds.xxx and StateYourPassion.xxx .Penn State University also acquired four .XXX domain names : Penn State, PSU, Nittany Lions and The Pennsylvania State University,while East Carolina University registered a total of eight .XXX domains,such as eastcarolina.xxx, ecu.xxx,eastcarolinauniversity.xxx,eastcarolinauniversitypirates.xxx and leojenkinscancercenter.xxx .
Another University who decided to protect the school’s trademark from being used pornographers is the University of Notre Dame,who decided to register four .XXX domains,notredame.xxx, universityofnotredame.xxx, fightinirish.xxx and domer.xxx,spending on them $1,319.96 .
Even though many Universities rushed to protect their trademarks and decided to register .xxx domain names,other Universities opted to closely monitor the Internet to see if anyone infringes their trademarks .
You can register here your .XXX domain .
Eurid,the company behind .EU domain name,has recently released its Q4 2011 report.The report reveals that on average,81.6% of registered .eu domains were renewed in 2011 .
You can read the press release after the jump :
“On average, 81.6% of registered .eu domain names were renewed in 2011, according to the latest quarterly progress report from the .eu top-level domain registry, EURid. .eu has maintained a renewal rate of over 80% for the past five years.
“I am pleased to see the extent of .eu consumer loyalty. The strong renewal rate for 2011 shows that end-users have a sustained interest in renewing their .eu domain names,” said EURid’s General Manager, Marc Van Wesemael.
.eu registrations grew by 3.0% in Q4 2011 which was the strongest growth since Q1 2010. Registrations increased in 23 of the 27 EU nations and the strongest growth was in Malta (8.6%), Austria (7.2%) and France (6.6%) during the fourth quarter.
.eu completed Q4 2011 with 3.51 million registered .eu domain names, an increase of 5.5% compared with Q4 2010. Annual growth of over 10% was recorded in 11 European Union countries, namely Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
Also in the Q4 report:
Website usage
EURid published a .eu Insights report about website usage patterns which showed that different top-level domains have clearly different profiles. Of the websites assessed, 26.5% were used for business purposes and .eu, with 31.4%, had an above average business usage.
Domain name security
EURid simplified domain name security for .eu accredited registrars with the new .eu DNSSEC Signing Service. This service automatically signs .eu domain names and maintains re-signing and key rollovers, removing much of the complexity and administrative work often associated with implementing the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol.
The full report for Q4 2011 is available for download here .”
