Monthly Archives: April 2012

Sat 14th April 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Knew About The TAS Problem On Mar 19th - In a statement just issued by Akram Atallah, COO of ICANN it appears ICANN was first notified on the problem with the TAS system that allowed users to see other users files on March 19th. As we know ICANN didn’t shut the system down until April 12th. Here is the statement: “As we have reported, ICANN has learned of a technical issue with the TLD application system software, or TAS, that allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names in certain scenarios. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Godaddy.com & Oversee.net Both Make HostExploit’s “Top 50 Bad Hosts & Networks” List - HostExpolit publishes a quarterly list entitled “The To 50 Bad Hosts Networks” and for the list just published today for the 1st quarter of 2012, both Godaddy.com and Oversee.com made the list. Godaddy.com came in at number 40 overall on the top 50 worst list. Oversee.net came in at number 49 overall, but was ranked number 5 in the world for “Badware”. That’s actual and improvement for Oversee.net which was listed as number 1 in the world for “BadWare” in the last report for 4th Q ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Marchex sued for Skype click-to-call-jacking - Florida satellite company says Marchex is stealing phone calls from it. A Florida satellite TV company has sued Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX), alleging that the company is hijacking Skype calls of people trying to reach the company (pdf). A-SAT Inc., d/b/a International Satellite Antenna Service, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Orlando on Thursday. If you have Skype installed on your computer, then you’ve seen how phone numbers are automatically turned into links. ... read more ...
Fri 13th April 2012
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UDRP For Another Generic: LegalSupply.com Registered in 1998 - I don’t see how the Fair Act applies here but here is the law so everyone can read it: An Act To provide a process for identifying the functions of the Federal Government that are not inherently governmental functions, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998″. SEC. 2. ANNUAL LISTS OF GOVERNMENT ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NO and tagged
Vil danke ut .com - Dagens 22 generiske toppnivådomener (gTLD), deriblant .com og .org, får neste år følge av flere hundre nye. Forvent å se .google, .youtube og en mengde andre merkevarer representert. Byer som Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid og Moskva er med. En nettadresse vil kunne avsluttes med nær et hvert ord, uansett skriftspråk. Bare én aktør i Norge er med i kampen, etter det digi.no erfarer. I likhet med andre søkere betaler de en betydelig inngangspris. Bare å søke hos ICANN koster ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD For .Radio Is Filed By Owners of .Fm & .Am - According to a press release this morning, BRS Media Inc. has filed an application for the .RADIO TLD as part of ICANN’s New gTLD program. BRS Media is behind the ccTLD’s of .FM .AM George T. Bundy, Chairman CEO of BRS Media Inc is quoted as saying “We look forward to moving ahead into the next phase of .RADIO. We are ecstatic and thrilled to have the opportunity to establish a new Top-Level-Domain, and envision great possibilities in creativity and innovation in the .RADIO namespace” “Our ... read more ...
 
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ICANN FINALLY Issues A Statement on The New gTLD Application System & “Houston We Have A Problem” - Well finally we have a statement from ICANN as to what happened to the TAS system that is  used to accept applications for the new gTLD “We have learned of a possible glitch in the TLD application system software that has allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names in certain scenarios.” said Akram Atallah Chief Operating Officer of ICANN “Out of an abundance of caution, we took the system offline to protect applicant data. We are examining how this ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
L’Icann reporte son programme de nouvelles extensions Web - L'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), a reporté, jeudi 12 avril, son programme de nouvelles extensions Internet. Sur son site, l'organe américain chargé de la gestion des noms de domaines évoque un problème technique. Les postulants auront finalement jusqu'au 20 avril pour demander de nouveaux suffixes. Les noms de domaine génériques ("gTlds" en anglais, pour "generic top-level domain names") sont actuellement au nombre ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
Domaining.com outage leaves domain bloggers in a lurch - Key source of traffic to many domain blogs has gone dark. People take good things for granted until that good thing goes away. Such is the case with Domaining.com, which has been down for over a day. First, my condolences to Francois (who runs the site). Having a site outage sucks. No other word for it. I get a relatively small percentage of my traffic from Domaining.com. But I still noticed a difference in traffic yesterday. I missed the traffic, and I missed Domaining.com. I ... read more ...
 
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DigitalArchery.com to sell on Sedo, a 100x lapse in dual weeks - A smart domain registration — from $10 to at least $1,000 in two weeks. ICANN plans to use “digital archery” to determine in which batch new top level domain applications are included. One savvy domainer seized on the opportunity and registered DigitalArchery.com on March 31. Just another sucker hand registering a domain that will never sell? Hardly. DigitalArchery.com has a $1,000 bid at Sedo. The auction closes tomorrow. A 100x return in just two weeks sounds ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
A monatin cancer scare? - Strange domain registrations related to natural sweetener. Someone is playing defense with a new sweetener call monatin. Monatin is a natural sweetener that contains no carbohydrate or sugar. And some company is getting ahead of the curve on defensive domain registrations related to Monatin. The following domains were registered through brand protection company Mark Monitor this week: monatincancer.com monatincausescancer.com monatinconspiracy.com monatinsideeffects.com I’m ... read more ...
 
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TAS glitch will call in to doubt digital archery for new TLDs - Will applicants trust results of digital archery? ICANN’s announcement that some sensitive new TLD applicant information could have been accessed is sure to cause more doubt about its planned “digital archery” scheme. The so-called digital archery plan will be used to help determine how top level domain applicants are slotted in queue. Applicants essentially pick a time, login to a special web page, and click a submit button as close to that time as possible. ... read more ...
Thu 12th April 2012
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ICANN Will Start To Accept New gTLD Applications On Tuesday - According to one report ICANN will re-open the TAS system and start accepting new gTLD applications on Tueday. According to the Guardian.co.uk, ICANN will re-open the TAS system to accept applications for new gTLD’s at “23.59 GMT on Tuesday for three days, and finally close on Friday 20 April at 23.59 GMT. ” GMT is the same time as UTC. Although I haven’t read or heard any “official” word on what happened to the TAS system or what the current status is, this report makes sense. The question ... read more ...
 
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Google Reports: Revenues Up 24% Clicks Up 39%; Average Cost Per Click Down 12% Ends Q With $50 Billion In The Bank - Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 after the market closed today Google reported revenues of $10.65 billion for the quarter and Google ended the Quarter with $50 Billion in the Bank. Q1 Financial Summary Google reported revenues of $10.65 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, an increase of 24% compared to the first quarter of 2011. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition ... read more ...
 
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ICM Owner of .XXX Applies For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Give .XXX Owners Grandfather Rights - The ICM Registry, the operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD)  announced it made application for the new gTLD’s in SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. According to the press release issues this morning if ICM were to get any or all of the new extensions the owner of the matching .XXX domain would be given a grandfather right to acquire the matching name in the new extension. Here is the balance of the press release: “ICM Registry has worked for more than a decade to create .XXX which has become a globally ... read more ...
 
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TAS Crashes & New gTLD Application Deadline Is Extended Until Apr 20th - ICANN just announced  that the TAS system which is the mechanism by which companies file their application for new gTLD’s crashed and therefore was extending the time to make application from April 12th until April 20th, 2012. The official new closing time to make application is 23:59 UTC on Friday, 20 April 2012. The next big questions to be answered is will be if the “big reveal”, the day on which ICANN will announce who applied for what extension, will be pushed back from its scheduled ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in HU and tagged
Hajnal egyig lehet igényelni gTLD domain-neveket - 2012. április 12., csütörtök, 08:25Utolsó frissítés: 2012. április 12., csütörtök, 11:31 Szerző: Niklasson Katalin Címkék: igénylés; gTLD; generic Top Level Domain; domain-név; általános felső szintű tartománynév; Kinyomtatom Elküldöm ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NO and tagged
Stockholm kjøper toppdomene - Den første søknadsrunden for nye toppnivådomener utløper i dag den 12. april. Listen over hvem som er villig til å punge ut for sitt eget toppdomene, av typen .stedsnavn, .firma eller .hvasomhelst, blir først publisert av ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) den 30. april. Men allerede nå er det klart at Stockholm søker. Svindyrt Bare søknaden alene koster dem 185 000 dollar, eller over én millioner kroner. Denne engangssummen får de ikke tilbake ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
Another Great Reason To Own Your Domain: In Case You Need To Raise Money For Legal Defense: George Zimmerman Did Not - A few days ago George Zimmerman started a website, trying to raise funds for his legal defense. For a guy who has been in the news everyday for well over a month, George is reason number 1001 for why you own your own domain name, this time in case you need to raise money for your legal defense. However just a couple of weeks ago Netfirms of Burlington, Massachusetts, went out and registered the domain name GeorgeZimmerman.com (the domain does not resolve) but it left Mr. Zimmerman to come up with ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
ICANN New TLD focus deadline extended to Apr 20 - Technical problems lead to deadline extension. ICANN has extended the deadline for apply for a new top level domain until April 20. The deadline was supposed to be today. The extension was made due to technical problems with the TLD Application System (TAS). Users started reporting problems last night, and ICANN identified “technical issue” with the software. It’s entirely possible that the technical issue was too many people trying to use the system at once. ... read more ...
 
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MediaSet has no one to censure though itself for domain name woes - Italian broadcaster’s comedy of errors for MediaSet.com. Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, recently lost a UDRP case for the domain name MediaSet.com. But the company apparently got a court in Rome to overrule the UDRP decision. The court apparently ordered the domain transferred and that a fine be paid each day until it’s transferred. I don’t know how MediaSet expects the court to enforce this. The domain is registered to a Delaware man at a register ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN
ICM Registry relates for .Sex, .Porn and .Adult - Company applies for three adult top level domains. ICM Registry, the same company that launched the .xxx top level domain last year, announced today that it has applied for three adult related top level domains with ICANN: .SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. Today is the last day companies can apply for new top level domains through ICANN’s program. This is an interesting but savvy move on ICM’s part. ICM Registry founder Stuart Lawley has previously said he didn’t think ... read more ...
Wed 11th April 2012
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UDRP Filed On More Geo Generic’s FortLauderdaleConvention.com & FtlauderdaleConvention.com - A UDRP complaint has just been filed on three domain names, two of which seem very generic Geo’s The three domains subject to the complaint are: FortLauderdaleConvention.com FtlauderdaleConvention.com BrowardConventionCenter.com The domain name BrowardConventionCenter.com is more problematic since there is a building by the name of the “Greater Fort Lauderdale / Broward County Convention Center” The domain BrowardConventionCenter.com goes to a site that has info to the center as well as a ... read more ...
 
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Pool Launches Digital Archery Service To Help gTLD Applicant’s Get Batching Preference - Pool.com has a new product for those seeking an advantage in the batching process for new gTLD’s. The service is called  Digital Archery Service and its get its name from the process ICANN announced a couple of weeks ago for batching the new gTLD applications. The process as ICANN describes it, is very much like the process domainers are familiar with trying to catch dropping domains. Time counts and fractions of a section can cause an applicant to be pushed into a later batch, possible adding ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines Gets .London - According to a press release out this morning Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (AIM:TLDH.L), a wholly-owned subsidiary Minds and Machines Limited,  which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of London Partners Limited (“London Partners”), been exclusively appointed by Dot London Domains Limited (“DLDL”),  to (i) assist with DLDL’s application to the Internet’s governing body, ICANN, for DLDL to be appointed registry operator of a new gTLD for London (“dot London”) and, (ii) if ... read more ...