The recently registered domain names sunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.co.uk have been transferred to News International reports The Guardian following speculation about who registered them after the controversial closure of Britain’s largest selling Sunday newspaper News of the World. Mired in phone hacking allegations of murdered teenager Millie Dowler by people acting on behalf of the NotW and attempting to wrest control of the 60 per cent of BSkyB it does not own, News International decided to close the newspaper to deflect some of the problems. The domain names were registered on behalf of an unnamed registrant “the day after the Guardian revealed that a private detective acting for the News of the World hacked into the murdered teenager Milly Dowler’s voicemail, but before News International announced that it was to close the paper after 168 years when advertisers and politicians turned against it.” The Guardian also reports that News has not taken control of all the relevant domains having not “so far acquired control of what could be seen as a related domain, Sunonsunday.com, which was created much earlier, in September 2007, and is owned by Marco Milani, the bassist in the group Sun on Sunday. Thesunonsunday.com is owned by an unnamed British individual, and was also registered on 5 July.”

[news release] Following the closure of the Landrush application phase for the 2,640 remaining .uk short domains on 15 June, Nominet received payment for a total of 10,663 applications. This follows the allocation of 178 domain names in the registered and unregistered rights “sunrise” phases which enabled rights holders to register domain names prior to general availability. 599 domain names have a sole applicant and will be registered in the name of the applicants on 23 June. If you have registered one of these domains you will be contacted by your registrar. 1,327 domain names have more than one applicant and will therefore go through to the auction phase of the process. The domain name will be awarded to the applicant which places the highest bid. The net profits from the short domains release process will go to the Nominet Trust . All domain names for which there were no applicants (713 .net and 1 .me) will be made available on a first come first served basis from 27 June 2011, subject to the rules of registration. Nominet is currently reviewing the auction schedule with its auction partner, NFPA . Parties involved will be notified of the schedule, together with instructions for participation, directly by NFPA in the week commencing 27 June. Auctions are scheduled to start on 20 July. Due to the volume of auctions being held, it is anticipated that they will be held over several weeks during July, August and September. The five most heavily applied for domain names are: bb.co.uk (43 applicants), ip.co.uk (40 applicants), dj.co.uk (37 applicants), dr.co.uk (35 applicants) and cv.co.uk (33 applicants). The most heavily applied for single character domain is 1.co.uk (32 applicants). You can see the status of the domain name using Nominet’s Sunrise WHOIS tool. This Nominet news release was sourced from: www.nominet.org.uk/news/latest/?contentId=8464 To register your .UK domain name, check out Europe Registry here .

A screen shot of the Swedish Prosecution Authority website, Aklagare.se (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers, has brought down the website of the Swedish Prosecution Authority ( www.aklagare.se ) Tuesday following the authority’s announcement that it intends to appeal against a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

A screen shot of the Swedish Prosecution Authority website, Aklagare.se (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Anonymous, the group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers, has brought down the website of the Swedish Prosecution Authority ( www.aklagare.se ) Tuesday following the authority’s announcement that it intends to appeal against a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Swedish website went offline for nearly 11 hours on Tuesday, marking the latest in an ongoing series of attacks by Anonymous. The group has been attacking the websites of companies and governments which it views as acting against WikiLeaks, including Mastercard , Visa, PayPal , PostFinance and Moneybookers .

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Win a Dell Laptop Plus Three Years Free Website Hosting – Image via CrunchBase Leading web hosting company Fasthosts has launched a monthly competition which will award winners with a free Dell laptop, three years free Business Premium hosting [including software to build, optimise and monitor a website], a domain name and Microsoft Exchange e-mail.

Sep 28, 2010 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Gloucester, UK: As founding Technology Sponsor of The Great Exhibition 2012, Fasthosts Internet Ltd, (www.fasthosts.co.uk), a leading web hosting provider, today launched a competition that encourages individuals and businesses to get online. To support and celebrate The Great Exhibition 2012, each month for 25 months, Fasthosts will provide a worthy applicant with infrastructure they need to be successful online laptop, software and hosting services. Every month, the company will also be awarding a very substantial amount of internet services to help people promote any company, sport, hobby or community project to the rest of the nation.