Monthly Archives: August 2014

Tue 19th August 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
BBC Experiment Demonstrates The Risks of The Internet of Things - The BBC set up a house filled with a variety of smart gadgets and asked researchers to demonstrate how easy it was to crack the security systems on them. Liam Hagan, a researcher from security firm Nettitude, said he was “shocked” at the poor job baby monitors and wi-fi cameras did to protect the pictures and sounds they were gathering. “One of the big issues is that one wi-fi video camera makes itself available to the internet regardless of your firewall,” he said. “Anyone who knows your ... read more ...
 
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The state of a domain name industry - My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of the domain name industry in August, 2014. Domain parking is down. Way down. But don’t confuse down with out. We’re still talking about a relatively big business. Rook Media’s acquisition of DomainSponsor and its domain name ... read more ...
 
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Registrant of 4,000+ .email domain names faces ascent authorised problems - Yoyo.email claims it registered trademark-matching .email domain names for a legitimate fair use. Most National Arbitration Forum panels have disagreed. You’ve probably never heard of Yoyo.email before, but it is one of the biggest individual registrants of new top level domain names in a single TLD. The company registered over 4,000 .email domain names. The problem for Yoyo.email is that a large number of these domain names match famous trademarks, such as dunkindonuts.email, ... read more ...
 
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Are industry-specific resellers a destiny of domain name registration? - Niche resellers and registrars are key for selling industry-specific domain names. Many of the new top level domain names coming to market are targeted to particular industries: .photography for photographers, .plumbing for plumbers, .solar for the solar industry. Selling these domain names through mass market domain name registrars is tricky. The domain names are unlikely to come up high in search results unless a particular keyword closely matches the TLD. Unless ... read more ...
Mon 18th August 2014
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17 Year Old TVS.com Saved in UDRP Against $4 Billion Company That’s Going Into Domain Hall Of Shame - TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited of Madurai of India represented by DePenning DePenning, just lost its attempt to grab the 17 year old domain name TVS.com The domain owner P.A. Gordon was represented by ESQwire.com which won its second UDRP of the day, Congrats to Ari and Jason. The panel had a very good discussion of latches and while the decision did not rest on latches the delay in 17 years was not something the panel could ignore. The panel spent quite a bit of time discussing the issue of ... read more ...
 
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The Winklevoss Twins Look to Spider Woman to move their Bitcoin ETF to Market - The Winklevoss Twins of Facebook fame are still working on bringing out the first ever Bitcoin ETF. They have hired the lady known as Spider Woman, Kathleen Moriarty. Moriarty worked on the very first ETF back in 1993 and has a treasure trove of experience. The Economic Times wrote: Kathleen Moriarty is the lawyer attempting to shepherd the Winklevoss brothers’ plan to roll out the first ETF that invests in bitcoins through the US SEC Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are fighting for approval from ... read more ...
 
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.CHURCH Launching September 17 - The number of premium domain names available to churches and related religious organizations is about to increase significantly. On September 17, 2014, the domain name extension .church – a new alternative to domain name extensions like .com and .org – officially opens to the general public. As explained below, churches and related organizations should consider taking advantage of this new opportunity to expand the reach of their marketing and communication efforts. If your organization ... read more ...
 
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To Highlight Typo’s Bathrooms.com Registers BathroomSweets.com: Price £80,000 (9.4 million calories) - We just received a pretty amusing email from Bathrooms.com and its all about typo’s. In this case “to highlight Brits mistakenly misspelling and searching for ‘bathroom sweets’ instead of ‘bathroom suites’, Bathrooms.com have partnered with Choccywoccydoodah to sell the world’s most indulgent bathroom, a life-size, 100% Belgian chocolate bathroom suite on BathroomSweets.com.” “Online shoppers looking to buy a new bathroom suite are incorrectly spelling ‘suites’ as ‘sweets’, ... read more ...
 
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Hamburg-Domain: Viele Rechte, wenig Pflichten - Ab Ende August gibt es im World Wide Web die Domain-Endung .hamburg. Betrieben wird sie von einer privaten Firma – doch die Stadt kann großen Einfluss nehmen. von Andreas Grieß Hamburg Rundumsicht  |  © PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images Auch Hamburg darf jetzt ins World Wide Web: Am 27. August geht die neue Top-Level-Domain (TLD) .hamburg online. Unternehmen und Privatpersonen ist es künftig möglich, ihre Website statt auf eine der gängigen Endungen wie .de oder .com auf .hamburg ... read more ...
 
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Vertical Axis Beats Back UDRP On Ritchey.com - Vertical Axis Inc. represented by Ari and Jason at ESQwire.com, just beat back a UDRP on the domain name Ritchey.com The complaint was brought by Ritchey Design, Inc. of Nevada which is a “company specializing in bicycle components established in 1974 which has registrations for RITCHEY in the US, Canada and the European Community for bicycle components and distributes in over 40 countries, through more than 200 distributors and has a worldwide revenue of $22.5 million The domain has been owned ... read more ...
 
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Leading This Weeks New gTLD’s .Fund, Here Are The Taken Domains - According to ntldstats.com,  .Fund is leading the other new gTLD’s that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an additional fee for early access to the domains. Personally I like .Fund I’m sorry I missed out on the ... read more ...
 
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Leading This Weeks New gTLD’s .Fund, Here Are The Taken Domains - According to ntldstats.com,  .Fund is leading the other new gTLD’s that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an additional fee for early access to the domains. Personally I like .Fund I’m sorry I missed out on the ... read more ...
 
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ICANN stellt neue Methode für Namenskollisionen vor - Künftig soll ein Warnhinweis auf Konflikte hinweisen. Administratoren bleiben damit nicht mehr im Unklaren, sollte ein interner Server plötzlich nicht mehr unter seinem gewohnten Namen erreichbar sein. Zudem wendet sich das neue Framework auch gegen eine Vergabe der konfliktträchtigen gTLDs .corp, .home und .mail. Für das Problem von Namenskollisionen durch generische Top-Level-Domains hat die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ... read more ...
 
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ntldstats: 80% Of All New gTLD’s Are Parked & Has Stats For Each Extension … - ntldstats.com, has added parking stats to its system, both overall and by each new gTLD extension. Overall ntldstats says that just over 80% of all new gTLD domain names are parked. Last week Verisign announced as of June 29th only 3% of all new gTLD resolved to “business websites”  which I assume by definition excludes personal websites and which may account for the difference. Parked domains are defined on the site as any domains which has a traditional parked page which also seems to include ... read more ...
 
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ntldstats: 80% Of All New gTLD’s Are Parked & Has Stats For Each Extension; .Buzz Has The Least - ntldstats.com, has added parking stats to its system, both overall and by each new gTLD extension. Overall ntldstats says that just over 80% of all new gTLD domain names are parked. Last week Verisign announced as of June 29th only 3% of all new gTLD resolved to “business websites”  which I assume by definition excludes personal websites and which may account for the difference. Parked domains are defined on the site as any domains which has a traditional parked page which also seems to include ... read more ...
 
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ICANN führt neue Methode für Namenskollisionen ein - Die Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hat eine Lösung für das Problem von Namenskollisionen durch generische Top-Level-Domains vorgeschlagen. Das Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework (PDF) hilft, wenn interne Server angesprochen werden sollen, die Namensbestandteile wie .guru oder .hamburg haben – und nach Freischaltung der gleichnamigen Top-Level-Domain plötzlich nicht mehr erreichbar sind. Die ICANN schreibt: “Das Framework dient dazu, den Effekt von ... read more ...
 
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ICANN nabízí řešení pro kolize TLD - Root.cz (www.root.cz), informace nejen ze světa Linuxu. ISSN 1212-8309 Copyright © 1998 – 2014 Internet Info, s.r.o. Všechna práva vyhrazena. Powered by Linux. Přepnout na mobilní verzi Kontakt| Reklama| Podmínky užívání| Podpořte Root.cz| Win8 app| RSS exporty ... read more ...
 
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Porsche loses Porsche.social URS to designed fan site - Porsche.social is just a parked page, but its owners claim to be creating a free site for Porsche enthusiasts. Car company Porsche has lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension cybersquatting case it brought against the San Jose, California owner of Porsche.social. Interactiv Corporation told the URS panel that it plans to use the domain name for a free community for Porsche car enthusiasts and will put a disclaimer on every webpage that it is not affiliated with or authorized ... read more ...
 
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Donuts compelling the TLDs during Vegas conform uncover (photo) - Company goes direct to customers to promote its niche domain names. “If you build it, they will come.” Not if they don’t know you’ve built it! Although there are close to 200 new top level domain names on the market, dozens of them niche domains for particular industries, very few people know about them. I’d bet fewer than 1% of business owners have ever heard of new TLDs, let alone most of the niche extensions. New TLD backers need to get in front of business ... read more ...
 
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New TLDs this week: .Bio, .Haus and an costly Donuts domain - StartingDot and Rightside join Donuts with new top level domain name releases this week. Last week was a Donuts-only week for new TLDs. This week the mega-registry is joined by Rightside and StartingDot. On Wednesday, Rightside will launch .haus. That’s German for “house”. Expect to pay anywhere from $25-$40 for .haus domains. Also on Wednesday, four financial Donuts domain names exit EAP and revert to regular pricing:.cash, .tax, .fund and .investments. .Investments ... read more ...
 
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Poker Tilt: a pro poker actor (and infrequently domainer) tells his life story - Professional poker player and domain investor Dutch Boyd publishes Poker Tilt. A key reason I like the domain name industry is that I get to meet people from very different backgrounds. One of these people is Dutch Boyd, a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner who also dabbles in domain names. I met Boyd in person during a TRAFFIC conference in Vegas many years ago. He was a fan of the blog and we started chatting. We ended up heading to the poker tables ... read more ...
Sun 17th August 2014
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The .ID is here and it is not cheap - Today is independence day in Indonesia, and on this day the shorter .id extension is now available. The extension is not cheap and comes with some restrictions. From 101Domain.com Copy of Indonesian business certificate (NPWP and TDP/SIUP) and a copy of the contact person’s KTP (Indonesian Identity Card). If you are a foreign company, please select Trustee Service at checkout. Domain naming requirement: the domain name must be similar or related to the registrant name, or registrant’s company, ... read more ...
 
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New Go Daddy Phishing Email Going Around – Be Careful - New Go Daddy phishing email going around so be careful. I have not received it but others have. Tip of the cap to Namepros member Tom Carl for posting the email he received. Most veterans would not fall for this but there are many newer domainers and business owners who may not know what to look for. Email subject: Status Alert: Your account contains more than 9740 directories.Dear Valued GoDaddy Customer. Your account contains more than 937 directories and may pose a potential performance risk ... read more ...
 
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Popular Bitcoin Websites Being Imitated by Phishers - Carolyn Moritz wrote an article on VPN Creative about impersonators using Bitcoin domains that are similar to existing websites for phishing attempts. It seems some of these websites were actually trying to generate advertising revenue and using the strong newsletter numbers of the real Bitcoin websites. From the article: Bitcoin news website CryptoCoinNews (CCN) was impersonated in a phishing attack on Thursday, August 14, marking the latest in a recent string of attacks impersonating bitcoin-related ... read more ...
 
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The Next Shot Fired - Sunday, August 17, 2014, 3:00am Since 2011, the banking and insurance industries have been advocating for industry control over the generic top level domain (gTLD) names .bank and .insurance, to assure the integrity of the naming process as the number of available domain names is expected to expand ... read more ...