Category: Domains (Page 2 of 3)

LACTLD introduces the Unified Domain Search Engine

In the context of LACTLD‘s Technical, Legal, and Commercial Workshop and the celebration of its 25th anniversary, a significant step towards digital integration and transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean has been taken. LACTLD has officially launched the Unified Domain Search Engine, an innovative tool that allows users to easily and uniformly check the availability of domain name registration in the region’s ccTLDs (country codes top-level domains). Continue reading

Domain name extensions to stand out

In today’s digital world, domain names are like welcome signs to your websites and online businesses. Until recently, we were used to traditional domain extensions like .com, .org, and .net. However, in recent years, there has been an exciting expansion in the variety of domain extensions available. This has opened up new possibilities for creating more relevant and distinctive domain names. Continue reading

Guatemala participates in the technical-commercial workshop of LACTLD

Most countries have a ccTLD (country code top-level domain). Since there is no direct competition between these organizations, they have worked together to set up groups like LACTLD.  This is the regional organization that brings together the ccTLDs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Its main objective is to coordinate joint policies, as well as development strategies for domain names. In pursuit of this, it organizes technical, legal, political, and commercial workshops to work with various topics of interest.  Continue reading

Internet Governance

Internet governance is a set of principles, norms, rules, decision-making processes, and activities. At the 2005 Information Society Summit in Tunis, the following definition was agreed upon: “It is the development and application by governments, the private sector, and civil society, in their respective roles, of principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and common programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.” Continue reading

The history of domain names

Domain names play a key role on the Internet, as their function is to translate IP addresses from numerical series into something easy to remember. It’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t used, but domain names weren’t the norm until the 1980s. As part of Internet month, we want to go through the history of these key elements of our daily lives.

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