.travel top level domain

I came accross a domain today with a .travel top level domain. I was surprised to know it was coming into common useage.

In order to register a .travel domain name, you need to be authenticated by ABTA or one of the organisations listed at travel.travel

The TLD DNS service is backed by UltraDNS as follows:

travel nameserver = tld6.ultradns.co.uk
travel nameserver = TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO
travel nameserver = tld4.ultradns.org
travel nameserver = tld3.ultradns.org
travel nameserver = tld2.ultradns.net
travel nameserver = tld1.ultradns.net
travel nameserver = B.GTLD.travel
travel nameserver = A.GTLD.travel

Comparison of .RS (Serbian) Domain name registration costs

EUNet.rs 13.17 €
http://www.bitsyu.net/nic/ 12.61 €
https://www.loopia.rs/domeni/ 10.18 €
http://www.absolutok.rs/ 12.61 €
http://www.madnet.rs/domeni/ 12.04 €
http://www.cri.co.yu/usluge/rsdomeni 10.51 €
http://sezamhosting.com/rs/ 11.93 €
http://www.verat.net/sr/web-hosting/registracija-rs-domena/ 13.14 €
http://hosting.neobee.net/rsdomen.php 14.6 €
http://www.ninet.rs/en/rs-domain-registration.php 12 € * English
http://www.hostingmania.rs/ 11.95 €
http://hosting.sbb.rs/ 12.34 €

The cheapest registration is with Loopia.rs at just over 10 euros, but their website is in Serbian, and hard to navigate.

The cheapest english registration service is ninet.rs, at 12 euros. You get a .co.rs SLD for this, and the process is pretty painless, although the paypal payment option was buggy.

Comparison of .RO (Romanian) domain name registration costs:

Comparison of .RO (Romanian) domain name registration costs:

EuroDNS 28 €
http://nic.ro 17 €
inregistrare-domenii-ro.com 26 €
rowebsolutions.ro 39 €
www.domenii.eu 33 €
www.abonet.ro 28 €

Buying direct from the romanian NIC (nic.ro) seems the cheapest at 17 euros.
You get a .co.ro, or a number of other .ro SLD's for this.

The site's in english, and easy to use.

Irish (.ie) domain registration price comparison

The price for registering a .ie (Irish) domain name varies amazingly from €21.86 euros right up to 138 euros., excluding the RBN cost of 30 euros. These prices are correct as of posting, and may or may not include VAT if not quoted. Prices may be rounded to the nearest euro. No hosting is included in the price.

EuroDNS - 48 €
Hosting Ireland - 70 €
Register365 - 25 €
register.ie - 70 €
blacknight - 24.24 € inc. VAT
Irish domains - 60 €
WebWorld - 29 €
Netnames - 138 €
letshost.ie - 21.86 € inc. VAT
webhost.ie -29€
hostireland - 60.57 € inc VAT

So out of that list Letshost.ie is the cheapest.

Every site in google marked as harmful

Above is a search for Wikipedia, with the message "This site may harm your computer!"

Which european country has the most listed pages in Google?

Here's a pub trivia question:

Which country in europe has the most pages in googe registered under it's top level domain?

Answer:

If you type "Site:.uk" into google, you get the number of sites registered as .co.uk / .org.uk etc., this is 701 Million.

If you type "Site:.de" into google, you get 1.3 Billion. Hense the Germans are ahead!

UK Second Level Domain DNS Architecture

The UK's TLD (.uk) is spread across 11 DNS servers, as follows: ns1.nic.uk to ns7.nic.uk, then nsA.nic.uk to nsD.nic.uk. Although very few domains actually use the TLD directly, most use second level domains, most commonly .co.uk.

The second level domain, .co.uk, is balanced accross the same 11 DNS servers as the TLD, .uk. The same configuration is also used for ltd.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .nic.uk, .org.uk, .plc.uk, and .sch.uk.

Alternative configurations are used for .ac.uk, using ns0.ja.net to ns4.ja.net, and the following servers: sunic.sunet.se, ns.uu.net, ws-fra1.win-ip.dfn.de and ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk.

The second level domain .gov.uk uses the same five ja.net DNS servers as ac.uk, and the UCL server, it also uses auth50.ns.de.uu.net, auth00.ns.de.uu.net and ns1.surfnet.nl

The Ministry of defence second level domain mod.uk, uses only three DNS servers. relay.mod.uk, ns1.nic.uk and the DNS server at UCL used for .ac.uk and .gov.uk.

The National Health service second level domain, nhs.uk, is served by two DNS nodes, nsa.nhs.uk and nsb.nhs.uk

The police force second level domain, police.uk, seems unrelated to the other uk domain names, using totally different DNS servers as follows: ns2.psops.net, ns0.cwci.net, chtdns1.cwci.net, ns1.psops.net, and ns1.cwci.net