Monthly Archives: December 2014

Fri 5th December 2014
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Second Auction Of Bitcoins Seized from Silk Road Completed - John Biggs just posted on Tech Crunch that the second auciton of Silk Road Bitcoins. There were 50,000 BTC in this auction. Current Bitcoin pricing courtesy of CoinDesk.com From Tech Crunch: The US Marshals Service has completed the second auction of Bitcoin seized from the original Silk Road. The auction, consisting of 50,000 BTC, is the latest in a seized BTC sell-off that began in June. The USMC reported that 11 registered bidders placed 27 bids for the bitcoin, down from 45 bidders in June. ... read more ...
 
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Radix Set to Launch .SITE TLD in 2015 – Virtual - Sedo Analysts name .site as a top 10 most valued new gTLD. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 05, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radix, the UAE based registry operator for a bunch of new TLDs, has won the rights to operate the popular new gTLD .site for an undisclosed amount, and is looking to launch it in early 2015. This was a big win for Radix as it went up against industry heavyweights including Donuts, Minds+ Machines and Interlink Co. .site is a short, generic, and easily understood nTLD by ... read more ...
 
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Mauritian Government Not Paying The Bills on Gov.mu and domain is going to be auctioned off - In what looks to be a really odd situation, the website islandcrisis.net is reporting that the government of Mauritius did not pay their bill for the domain name gov.mu. So now it is going to be auctioned off. The domain supposedly gets 500,000 to 1,100,000 queries a day. The government moved on to govmu.org. Read the full story here The Internet Direct Limited (IDL), the company that is behind the deactivation of gov.mu, stated that the Mauritian government did not pay its bills, and as a consequence, ... read more ...
 
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QNB.com domain name sells for $1 million - Bank sells domain name to another bank for $1 million. Qatar National Bank has paid $1 million to acquire the three letter domain name QNB.com. The deal was disclosed in an SEC filing made by the seller, another bank called QNB Bank. The seller changed its web presence to QNBBank.com. Changing a bank’s domain name is a big deal, and I’m not surprised at the price tag on this deal given the circumstances. Qatar National Bank uses the country code domain name QNB.com.qa ... read more ...
 
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Porn site user sues cybersquatters - Company goes after alleged cybersquatters of its adult site brands. The company behind PornHub.com, RedTube.com and YouPorn.com has filed multiple lawsuits in U.S. District court against the owners of at least ten domain names it alleges are cybersquatting on its brands. The lawsuit was filed by Licensing IP International S.à.r.l., which is commonly known as MindGeek. Targeted in the suits are typos, country codes and other domains that contain its brands: PoernHub.com, ... read more ...
 
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2 weeks of lapsed domain name sales - This article covers a 2-week period on either side of Thanksgiving: 19 November – 2 December. For that reason, you’ll see the sales list crammed full to bursting like a ClownCar.com ($662). I was going to jettison everything below $300 to save space, but I figure readers can quite easily scroll past extra information. GoDaddy’s top expired auction last week comes as a bit of a surprise. Whatever its accrued merits for SEO, the 4-word, 23-letter BarnDoorSlidingHardware.com ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2014
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Shopzilla Acquires Become.com Which Was Sold 10 Years By BuyDomains For $20K - Connexity, the online price comparison and shopping company formerly known as Shopzilla, has agreed to acquire e-commerce aggregator Become.com. TechCrunch reported the deal Thursday Financial terms of the acquisition of Sunnyvale-based Become-com were not disclosed. Become.com, founded by Michael Yang in 2004, had raised $37.2 million in funding from investors who include SV Angel, TPG and the European Founders Fund. Its CEO is Alex Terry and Yang is on the board. Shopzilla, before it became Connexity, ... read more ...
 
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Domaining 2015 In Valencia Spain: 1st 10 Readers That Signup Get 50% Off - The 7th Domain Conference will be hold again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April 2015. The first 10 readers of thedomains.com will get a 50% off the price using this code VIPTheDomains Some of the discussions that will be covered include: Geo Tld’s How to avoid your Domain being stolen How is .com doing News on the newGTLD scene Startups and Domains Domain Tools and APPS Domains and SEO The new WHOIS and how it will affect the Registrant News on the Development side for Domains The ... read more ...
 
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TLD Registry Ltd Welcomes New Board Members - TLD Registry Ltd, the world's leading Internationalized Domain Name "New gTLD" registry, today announced three newest members of the board: Chairwoman of the board Kirsi Eräkangas (伊可思), Vice Chairman Harri Koponen (柯皓锐), and board member Jari Tuovinen (陶杰瑞). Eräkangas is a 20-year veteran as a business angel investor, advisor, and board member for several different computer-based companies in Finland. She is also the co-founder of Basware, a Finnish e-commerce company ... read more ...
 
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Seven Key Takeaways from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles - The 51st international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) formally concluded on Thursday, October 16, 2014, in Los Angeles. As always, the ICANN community discussed several high-profile topics during the meeting, all of which are relevant to registry operators, new generic top-level domain (gTLD) applicants and brand owners alike, including: two-character names and geographic names; string confusion objection review, indirect contention, and auctions; ... read more ...
 
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Fake Bitcoin Foundation sites scamming cryptocurrency users - We read about phishing emails targeted at domain name owners all the time, things from verification scams to update your payment details and so on. The world of crypto currency is seeing the same thing, with the latest scam detailed on Monday by Liam Tung on ZDnet. It seems people are getting duped into believing they are receiving emails from the Bitcoin Foundation when these are spoofed versions of the foundation website. From the article: The latest ruse to scam Bitcoin owners out of their holdings ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings Joins The ICA As A Silver Member - Domain Holdings, has become the latest member of The Internet Commerce Association (the ICA) which is a trade group that represents and protect  domain name holders and those with interests in the domain business. Domainholdings.com has entered the ICA as a silver member which requires a annual contribution of $5,000-$9,999 I reached out to Alan Dunn of DomainHoldings to ask him why the company thought it was important to become  a member of the ICA. Here is their statement: “”Joining the ICA ... read more ...
 
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The New gTLD, .LGBT Goes Into Sunrise on Jan 5th - Afilias announced the first phase of the introduction the new gTLD .LGBT  which is  dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: will be launching early next year The first phase is the “sunrise” period, which is limited to eligible trademark holders and is open from January 5, 2015 through February 4, 2015. During sunrise, domains will be awarded in a first come, first-served manner; however, eligibility during this period is limited strictly to ... read more ...
 
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Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) to Ring Closing Bell At Nasdaq Tomorrow - In honor of the occasion, Taryn Naidu, Chief Executive Officer, will ring the Closing Bell. Nasdaq MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd Broadway – Broadcast Studio When: Friday, December 5, 2014 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET For multimedia features such as exclusive content, photo postings, status updates and video of bell ceremonies please visit our Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/NASDAQ. For photos from ceremonies and events visit our Instagram Page: http://instagram.com/nasdaq For ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in dual weeks - Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last month Yahoo announced that it was replacing Google as the default search engine in the next/latest version of Firefox: Firefox 34. That position is now paying dividends for Yahoo according to new data from StatCounter released earlier today. The analytics ... read more ...
 
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DNS.pt colabora com Angola - Centro Nacional das Tecnologias da Informação angolano terá apoio na gestão do ccTLD .ao. A Associação DNS.pt vai dar apoio a Angola na gestão do domínio de topo .ao, nomeadamente na instalação e operação dos servidores primários e secundários a alojar no data center do Centro Nacional das Tecnologias da Informação (CNTI), bem como no desenvolvimento, implementação e manutenção ... read more ...
 
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Le Val de Loire, terre fertile pour les investissements étrangers - Tablettes, tableaux interactifs, ordinateurs… Les nouvelles technologies font désormais partie de l’environnement scolaire pour certains élèves. ... read more ...
 
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GOOAALLL! Back of the net! ‘Millions of dollars’ score .football gTLD - Adaptable System Recovery (ASR) for Linux virtual machines The top-level domain name .football has been auctioned off for, what's expected to be, millions of dollars to upstart registry Donuts.Domain names using the beautiful game's dot-word will be available some time in the new year, along with names ending in .news, .golf, .school and .latino, all of which were snapped in private auctions. The big winner was Donuts – winning ... read more ...
 
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Ferrero kämpft um die Top-Level-Domain .kinder - Von Stefan Winterbauer Die ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ist so etwas wie die Verwaltung des Internet. Die Organisation mit Hauptsitz in den USA kümmert sich um Zuweisung von Namen, Nummern und Endungen im weltweiten Datennetz. Um den Bedürfnissen von Firmen gerecht zu werden, lässt ICANN seit einiger Zeit auch Markennamen als Top Level Domains zu. So hat sich der Süßwaren-Multi Ferrero die Endungen .ferrero,  .rocher und .kinder als Endungen für ... read more ...
 
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Bulk Sunrise Period for Special Collision List Starts Next Week - The first 12 domain registries have been scheduled for the first special Sunrise Period mandated by ICANN for trademarks on the blocked collision lists (see TLD list at end of article). A total of 328 new domain extensions have launched so far in 2014. Each one of these has its own unique collision list of names that were found to be already in use on private computer networks. Some of these lists have over 100,000 names. All of these registries were required to block these names from being ... read more ...
 
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Internet grows to 280 million domain names in Q2, 2014 - December 3, 2014 BANGALORE, INDIA: Four million domain names were added to the Internet in Q2, 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 280 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs), according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief  by VeriSign, Inc. The increase of four million domain names globally ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin? - Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of  domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled  “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign says: “Earlier this year we used Bitcoin as an example of how domain registrations could be an effective gauge of interest in a particular subject. Our analysis demonstrated a clear rise in the number of registered .com and .net domain names containing the term “Bitcoin” ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Hangout to explain Expired Domains - What happens when a domain name expires? GoDaddy is hosting a Hangout this afternoon that will be useful for anyone who wants to learn more about expired domain names. I think this will be a good online event for anyone who doesn’t understand the lifecycle of a domain name and what they should do if they want to acquire an expiring domain. It will also be helpful for domain name investors who want to learn more about GoDaddy’s expired domain purchasing options. ... read more ...
 
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Researchers investigate a “Dark Side of Domain Parking” - A team of researchers says a number of domain name parking companies are up to no good. A group of researchers, mostly from Indiana University, recently presented a study about the “Dark Side of Domain Parking”. The study (pdf) was presented at USENIX Security Symposium in August, but I just became aware of it today and don’t recall this being covered elsewhere. The researchers wanted to understand the domain name parking business and if parking companies were ... read more ...