News - .INFO

Afilias Global Registry Services presents awards to the three best .INFO sites from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to iRights.info, GPS-tour.info and wilderkaiser.info.

Dublin, Ireland – May 12, 2008 – Afilias, a global provider of registry services, announced today that it has launched a new product site (www.info.info) where domain name registrars and Internet users can get information about the .INFO domain.

Internet users can now vote for their favorite Web site

MUNICH, GERMANY - 28. April 2008 - The judges of the .INFO Award have made their selections of the top ten .INFO websites out of several hundred submissions. Entries were received from sites covering tourism, wellness, web design, copyright, social involvement, and sports.

On the short list are:
www.12typo3.info
www.austria.info
www.baden-wuerttemberg.info

Afilias recognizes the best German-speaking .INFO-Sites and offers 18,000 Euro reward to the winners

MUNICH, GERMANY - March 17, 2008 – From March 17 to May 25 owners of German-speaking .INFO-Websites can apply for the .INFO-Award that will award 18,000 Euro in prize money later this year. The Award is created by global domain name registry Afilias in media-cooperation with INTERNET WORLD Business and addresses .INFO domain owners from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

DUBLIN, IRELAND – 21 January 2008 – Afilias, a global provider of registry services, announced today that Internet users can now register .INFO domain names that include the Spanish characters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü. The introduction of these new domain names, termed Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), now enables Spanish-speakers to establish Web sites using words commonly used in Spanish such as película.info, teléfono-móvil.info, Ídolo.info, Piñata.info, and others.