Monthly Archives: April 2014

Sun 27th April 2014
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USA Today Interviews Web.com CEO - Steve Strauss did an interview with the CEO of WEB.com, David Brown on USA Today. The article did not mention domains specifically but more of a focus on small business. This is now the focus of the some of the bigger companies out there in the space. Since Blake Irving has taken over at Go Daddy his focus has been squarely on small business. No more ads with provocative clothing or language, but rather a focus on how Go Daddy can be a one stop shop for small businesses online and for those looking ... read more ...
 
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Brasil segue vulnerável ao Heartbleed - Risk Report     28/04/2014 Globalmente, a porcentagem de sites que esto vulnerveis a falha SSL Heartbleed caiu em dois teros, alcanando uma taxa menor que 10%, diz Trend Micro. Somente trs TLDs analisadas pela empresa possuem porcentagens acima do nmero global: Brasil (.br), China (.cn) e Russia (.ru). A nica TLD com recorde de 100% dos sites limpos o domnio .gov, reservado para os sites governamentais dos Estados Unidos. Os domnios da Austrlia (.au), Inglaterra ... read more ...
 
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Domain gold rush: Why your company needs to speak Chinese online - By now, many savvy businesses and investors have heard about the expansion of the domain name system. New extensions (known as “top-level domains” or “TLDs”) are joining .com, .org, .net and the others we’ve grown accustomed to – extensions including generic names such as .bike, .camera and .club, as well as brand name extensions such as .Canon, .Deloitte and .Hitachi. Lesser discussed in the U.S. are Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). These are domain names written in multiple scripts ... read more ...
 
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Número de Sites Vulneráveis ​​ao Heartbleed Diminui Dois Terços – Under - Faz exatamente duas semanas que os pesquisadores da Trend Micro falaram sobre quantos sites no Top Level Domains 1M, estavam vulneráveis ​​ao bug Heartbleed SSL. E hoje, como estão as coisas em relação a essa falha? Globalmente, a porcentagem de sites que está vulnerável ao Heartbleed caiu em dois terços para pouco menos de 10 por cento. Apenas três TLDs verificados tem percentuais acima do número mundial: Brasil (.BR), China (.CN) e Rússia (.RU). A única TLD com um registro de limpeza ... read more ...
 
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Fashion Television Media Acquires Fashion.tv for $125,000 - Fashion.tv sells for $125,000. First off tip of the hat to Ammar from Legacy Fund who did some research and posted on Namepros that Fashion.tv,Fun.tv and Play.tv have all been sold by Cyber Tavern. Cyber Tavern was a partnership which was headed by the late Igal Lichtman. .TV investors checking the whois over the years, regularly saw the name Cyber Tavern or Mrs Jello. The names owned under Cyber Tavern he once told me were names he owned with partners where the Mrs Jello names were just him. I interviewed ... read more ...
Sat 26th April 2014
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Brasil é o terceiro país com mais sites vulneráveis ao Heartbleed - O Brasil o terceiro pas em nmero de sites vulnerveis falha Heartbleed proporcional ao nmero de portais nacionais que utilizam SSL, de acordo com um estudo realizado pela Trend Micro. De um total de 3.148 sites SSL, 350 apresentam alguma vulnerabilidade, representando 11,12%. A Rssia o pas que possui o maior nmero: 1.022, ou 23,19%. A China vem com o segundo maior nmero proporcional. Dos 189 sites SSL, ... read more ...
 
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Venture Beat “Domain gold rush: Why your company needs to speak Chinese … - Kathy Nielsen from Sedo did a guest post on Venture Beat discussing domain names and the upcoming Chinese new gtlds. From the article: By now, many savvy businesses and investors have heard about the expansion of the domain name system. New extensions (known as “top-level domains” or “TLDs”) are joining .com, .org, .net and the others we’ve grown accustomed to – extensions including generic names such as .bike, .camera and .club, as well as brand name extensions such as .Canon, .Deloitte ... read more ...
 
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Venture Beat “Domain bullion rush: Why your association needs to pronounce Chinese online” - Kathy Nielsen from Sedo did a guest post on Venture Beat discussing domain names and the upcoming Chinese new gtlds. From the article: By now, many savvy businesses and investors have heard about the expansion of the domain name system. New extensions (known as “top-level domains” or “TLDs”) are joining .com, .org, .net and the others we’ve grown accustomed to – extensions including generic names such as .bike, .camera and .club, as well as brand name extensions such as .Canon, .Deloitte ... read more ...
 
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Xapo Looks To Bring Bitcoin Debit Card to Market - Robert MCMillan of Wired wrote an article on the upcoming Bitcoin debit card from Xapo. The article points out that there are some other prepaid Bitcoin cards out there, the author noted they feel rather “fly by night”. Xapo has actually raised $20 million in VC and is looking to comply with U.S. law. From the article: Bitcoin may be the future of digital money, but it has a big problem here in the United States: why use it to buy anything when millions of merchants already accept debit and ... read more ...
 
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Desi Networks, LLC Announces Agreement with Trademark Protection Expert IP … – Virtual - The world's first domain focused on a community of more than 1.5 billion desis globally. Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 26, 2014 Desi Networks, LLC, the company behind the .desi generic top-level domain (gTLD), has announced that it has just entered into a formal registrar agreement with online brand protection expert IP Mirror. Through this relationship Desi Networks looks to grow its footprint in the region and ensure trademark protection and data security for its registrants. “IP Mirror ... read more ...
Fri 25th April 2014
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Heartbleed: Brasil é o terceiro país com mais sites vulneráveis à falha - O Brasil é o terceiro país com mais sites vulneráveis à falha Heartbleed, de acordo com pesquisa realizada pela Trend Micro. O primeiro lugar do ranking de TLDs dos países mais vulneráveis ao problema fica com a Rússia, seguida pela da China (.ch). Globalmente, a porcentagem de sites que estão vulneráveis a falha caiu em dois terços, alcançando uma taxa menor que 10%. A única TLD com recorde de 100% dos sites limpos é o domínio .gov, reservado para os sites governamentais dos Estados ... read more ...
 
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Heartbleed: Brasil é um dos países mais vulnerável a falha - Foto: Reprodução O Brasil é um dos três países com mais chance de sofrer ataques por meio da falha Heartbleed, que atinge servidores e serviços online com certificados SSL. De acordo com empresa de segurança na rede, Trend Micro, 11% dos sites de grande porte no País estão vulneráveis ao bug, mesmo após o problema ter sido revelado duas semanas atrás. A pesquisa foi feita ... read more ...
 
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Some 275 mln domain names registered worldwide - Some 275 million domain names had been registered at the end of 2013, of which 151 million (55%) were generic TLDs (gTLDs) and 124 million (45%) were country-code TLDs (ccTLDs), according to French domain registry Afnic. These volumes represented increases of 3.6 percent for gTLDs and 12.1 percent for ccTLDs, for an overall market growth estimated at 8.8 percent (including so-called ‘free’ ccTLDs which grew 21 percent in 2013). The market growth for gTLDs continued to follow ... read more ...
 
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After The Meeting On Internet Governance NETmundial Publishes Draft “Outcome Document” - The Global Multistakeholder two day meeting on the Future of Internet Governance Netmundial just concluded in Sao Paulo, Brazil . They report that 1,480 people attended the the meeting from 97 nations. “During the two-day event, the participants from 97 countries had the opportunity to contribute to the revision of the document through the discussion sessions. The sessions still consider the 1,370 comments made by the public on the outcome document, published on the official website of NETmundial, ... read more ...
 
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Reserve Dot London Web Address With Easyspace - GLASGOW, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Easyspace, one of the UK’s leading domain name registrar and web hosting companies and part of cloud company iomart, has opened reservations for the prestigious .London generic Top-Level Domain name (gTLD). “It’s a must for businesses and organisations of all sizes in the Capital to link themselves to one of the greatest cities in the world. Berlin has already been one of the most successful domain names ever launched and .London promises to be even bigger.” ... read more ...
 
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Our Picks of 400+ Domains From The 12K Domain .Club Landrush List - The Landrush period for the new gTLD .Club closes next week on May 1st. Land Rush is the period during which  .Club domain name is available for registration which has for an extra fee  you get priority ahead of general availability which begins on May 7th Simply put if you  place a Landrush application on an available  .Club domain (reserve domains, domains registered to trademark holders in Sunrise and those domains on the ICANN collision list are not available) you will get the domain. In ... read more ...
 
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Reserve .London web address with Easyspace - Reserve .London web address with Easyspace PRWEB.COM Newswire Glasgow, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 25 April 2014 Easyspace, one of the UK's leading domain name registrar and web hosting companies, has opened reservations for the prestigious .London generic Top-Level Domain name (gTLD). Anyone pre-registering the .London address with the ICANN accredited UK domain name provider will be given a professional email package free for a year as part of their domain name package if ... read more ...
 
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A Look At The Wearable Tech Space - Wearable Technology has been a big buzzword in the tech space and in domaining over the last year. The Wearable Tech showcase and discussion thread on Namepros has had 393 replies and over 16,000 views. There has been a lot going on in the news from people wearing Google Glass in San Francisco getting mugged, to Google having a one day sale and selling out Google Glass, to the recent news about Nike shutting down their fuel band product. ZDNet is out today with the news Google Glass is available ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling beats $200 billion medical hulk Novartis in UDRP - 9 year delay in filing UDRP hurts pharma company’s claim of disruption to its business. Frank Schilling has successfully defended the domain name ClearCare.com in a UDRP filed by Novartis AG. Novartis, which has a $200 billion market cap, offers a line of contact lens cleaning solutions under the name Clear Care. Schilling (through attorney John Berryhill) noted that his business involves registering expired domain names and parking them with ad links unrelated ... read more ...
 
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Verisign withdraws IDN focus and explains dump in .com/.net growth - Verisign cites a number of headwinds in its existing TLD business while it withdraws one of its IDN applications. Verisign held its quarterly investor conference call yesterday after releasing it first quarter earnings. The company processed 8.6 million new registrations across .com/.net, compared to 8.8 million in the same quarter a year ago. The renewal rate also dipped. Here’s what Verisign discussed on the call. Why the growth rate is shrinking Verisign blamed ... read more ...
 
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This week’s Expired Domain Report - [Editor’s note: this is Domain Name Wire’s first weekly expired domain name report, written by Joseph Peterson. Your feedback is welcome in the comments.] Last week, as always, expired domain auction sites were bustling with bids — some of them real. Here are a couple of interesting pending-delete results from NameJet: $510    Paris-Ile-De-France.com $90     NameSlaw.com (or NamesLaw.com?) Île-de-France is the wealthiest of 27 French districts, dominated ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2014
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Verisign Reports: Revenue adult 5%; There are 128.5 Million .Com & .Nets As of Mar 31 - ; VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2014, reporting revenue of $249 million for the first quarter of 2014, up 5% from the same quarter in 2013. Verisign reported net income of $94 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.64 for the first quarter of 2014, compared to net income of $85 million and diluted EPS of $0.52 in the same quarter in 2013. The operating margin was 56.1 percent for the first quarter of 2014 compared to 56.4 percent ... read more ...
 
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Cannabis Capital Acquires WebCongress.com In A Deal Valued At $25 Million - Cannabis Capital Corp. (OTCBB: CBCA) announce today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WebCongress, Inc.. The package deal is valued at over $25 Million, based on CBCA’s current share price, and consists of a combination of cash, shares, and management fees. This is an actual operating business and not just a domain name. Cannabis Capital Corp will retain the current WebCongress executive management team to continue driving the growth of WebCongress. WebCongress produces global digital ... read more ...
 
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Rightside™ Partners with NameJet for Initial New Top Level Domain Auctions – Virtual - NameJet and Rightside have partnered to help launch the new Top Level Domains (TLDs), .DANCE and .DEMOCRAT, through the use of landrush and premium auctions. Kirkland, WA (PRWEB) April 24, 2014 Rightside Registry, a generic Top Level Domain registry owned by Rightside, is now offering early access to their first two TLDs, .DANCE and .DEMOCRAT, in the landrush phase of their release. Rightside has selected NameJet to manage auctions for both landrush and upcoming premium auctions for these ... read more ...
 
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The Domain Business Can’t Make The Customer Pay For Someone Else’s Mistake - Kevin Murphy over at Domainincite.com wrote a post yesterday, entitled “Guy hit with $1,600 bill a month after registering “premium” name for $12.99″ The post goes onto explain: “One DI reader, who said he’d rather not be named, received a bill from the registrar today for $1587.01 for a .みんな domain name he hand-registered March 10 for the base fee of $12.99. The email from 101domain stated that unless he pays the bill by 5pm PST tomorrow, his domain will be deleted: It has come ... read more ...