.KN ccTLD Registry Change ahead

[bijaybd]

The dot KN (.kn) islands of St. Kitts and Nevis' Internet suffix will soon have a new registry. The University of Puerto Rico has been acting as the registry so far but requested for someone else to take over the task. Their request was approved by the Saint Kitts and Nevis Ministry of Finance, Sustainable Development, Information and Technology and ICANN agreed during their last board meeting on April 30th...

.KN will be handled by Taiwan's TWNIC, which may seem odd to most of us but according to the report there were no local candidates who applied for the job. The .KN redelegation should keep the existing regulations in place, no changes are expected.

 

[Terrains]

What are your takes on little known ccTLDs like this? For the high reg fee is it worth registering top tier keyword names?

 

[jmcc]

What are your takes on little known ccTLDs like this? For the high reg fee is it worth registering top tier keyword names?

One of the keys to the value of a ccTLD domain is the size of the market. A lot of the main speculation is in the ccTLDs with significant market sizes (.uk, .de etc). You may pick up a few bargains but if people aren't aware of the ccTLD then you may have a struggle to get traffic.

Regards...jmcc

 

[.tv]

The dot KN (.kn) islands of St. Kitts and Nevis' Internet suffix will soon have a new registry. The University of Puerto Rico has been acting as the registry so far but requested for someone else to take over the task. Their request was approved by the Saint Kitts and Nevis Ministry of Finance, Sustainable Development, Information and Technology and ICANN agreed during their last board meeting on April 30th...

.KN will be handled by Taiwan's TWNIC, which may seem odd to most of us but according to the report there were no local candidates who applied for the job. The .KN redelegation should keep the existing regulations in place, no changes are expected.

I have a few .kn names. What will happen to these existing registrations?

 

[think]

I have a few .kn names. What will happen to these existing registrations?

Has anyone heard anything about this change? I have a Dot KN and cannot change the DNS. I'm hoping that I'll be able to get it changed..