Monthly Archives: June 2015

Tue 16th June 2015
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Kaspersky Lab revela que Brasil é o décimo país que mais envia spam no mundo - Em janeiro de 2014, teve início o novo programa de registro de domínios primários, voltado para comunidades e tipos de organização específicos (.science ou .work), cujo principal diferencial é a opção de escolher o domínio de acordo com o tipo de atividade ou assunto do site. O Novo gTLD teve grande aceitação ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2015
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN to Delete URS from .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just told ICANN to drop the notion of applying the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) dispute resolution system to .Travel and other legacy gTLDs without undertaking a full Policy Development Process (PDP). In a June 12 letter, EFF stated: ICANN should not apply URS to the .travel domain, or to any additional domains, by the unaccountable means of staff inserting new conditions into the renewal of the registry operator's contract. Rather, the public ... read more ...
 
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Brasil é o décimo país que mais envia spam - Risk Report     15/06/2015 Em janeiro de 2014, teve incio o novo programa de registro de domnios primrios, voltado para comunidades e tipos de organizao especficos (.science ou .work), cujo principal diferencial a opo de escolher o domnio de acordo com o tipo de atividade ou assunto do site. O Novo gTLD teve grande aceitao na internet e os criminosos virtuais e remetentes de spam, que no podiam deixar essa oportunidade passar, esto usando o programa como instrumento ... read more ...
 
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Global generic domains for financial institutions: worth the price of admission? - In 2008, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), the non-profit organization responsible for creating and maintaining internet domains, approved a program to create new generic top level domains ("gTLD"). In response, an international consortium of financial institutions, financial services trade associations and insurance companies founded fTLD Registry Services, LLC ("fTLD") to obtain ownership of the .bank and .insurancegTLDs. In May 2012, fTLD submitted applications ... read more ...
 
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A quand le 2ème cycle du programme des nouveaux gTLDs ? -   Partager cet article :Tout le monde se pose la question suivante : mais quand aura lieu le 2e cycle ICANN en matière de nouveaux gTLDS ? Le prochain cycle est programmé dans un « futur proche » mais l’ICANN doit d’abord établir un examen complet et pluridimensionnel concernant l’atteinte de ses objectifs lors du 1er cycle de son programme des nouveaux gTLD.L’examen est actuellement en cours : l’Icann vient de finir de récolter les données nécessaires avec les premières ... read more ...
 
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Dot Brands Should Not Rush to Market, but Build Effective Strategies First - Brands applied for their new gTLDs to protect their brand and ensure they didn't miss an important new opportunity, but few had a clear business case for how they would use the gTLD platform when they applied. As brands approach the July 29th contracting deadline, the inevitable question is arising: "What do we do with this?" While a few brands like Barclays have rolled out HOME.BARCLAYS or Marriott has made an announcement about its use of .MARRIOTT deep inside their MARRIOTT.COM page where ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD - On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain appears to be on the Uniregistry reserved list as the domain was not “registered” by Uniregistry until the day before it transferred to FTD.  The domain was not registered by North Sound Domains. FTD is represented by CSC Domains. The domain name Pro.Flowers ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy vs. Uniregistry – a Great Debate - Uniregistry is increasingly competing with GoDaddy, and stronger competition is good for everybody. Increasingly competing with each other for domain investors’ business.Last week Doron Vermaat, a domain investor who writes the blog DNGeek, wrote a post explaining why he was moving his 600 domain names from GoDaddy to Uniregistry. His post sparked a lot of comments, including from representatives of the two registrars. That many of the “which registrar is best?” conversations now mention the ... read more ...
 
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Kaspersky spam and phishing report: some fears about new gTLDs have … -

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System. At a time of writing, over 630 new gTLDs have been substituted and approximately 400 have been launched.

New gTLDs were introduced by ICANN to…

Via: worldtrademarkreview.com

 
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Domain Movers: LeapButton.com, Bra.com and More Domains - If this is your first time seeing Domain Movers, you are in for a treat! Domain movers is an exclusive series where domain detective Jamie Zoch scours the web and finds recently registered domain names, recently acquired and domains moving for one reason or another. These domain names often lead into new products, brands, advertising campaigns, services, tv shows and much more. These are often early detections, so often times very little information is available to what “the terms” really mean ... read more ...
 
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Neustar's Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37 - What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provider for a lot of new TLDs. On this episode, Neustar VP of Registry Sean Kaine talks about these top level domains and how he sees the internet naming landscape changing in the coming years. What’s the future of .US? Why is .Co still growing in the face ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Sucks and .Markets - .Sucks hits general availability and the company that spent $4.7 million for a .com launches a new top level domain name. It will be a controversial week for new top level domain names, assuming Vox Populi doesn’t delay the start of .sucks general availability a second time. .Sucks domain names become available to the general public on Saturday at a suggested retail price of $249. Companies can also block their domains at participating registrars for about $199. The much-maligned “consumer advocate” ... read more ...
 
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New domain names are just better…right? - When searching online, Google gives you three opportunities to work out if a result is worthy of your click. The page title – that’s the blue bit in a larger font. The green bit – that’s the domain name. The grey bit – that’s the page description, words that describe what the page is all about. The domain name is a key chance to persuade a visitor to click. And thanks to launch of new gTLDs towards the end of 2013, every website owner has an opportunity to make their domain more relevant, ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest is Coming to South Florida As Part Of THE Domain Conference - The organizers of THE Domain Conference announced today that DOMAINfest will be held on Sunday, September 27th as part of its conference, from Saturday, September 26 through Tuesday, September 29 Jothan Frakes, co-founder of NamesCon, will be bringing the renowned DOMAINfest networking and content, which will be a compliment to THE Domain Conference, with its Premier Sponsor .CLUB Registry Voluntary donations will be accepted in support of the Internet Commerce Association and the Water ... read more ...
 
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Some of Kim Dotcom's Mega Domains Expired and are adult for sale - According to TorrentFreak.com some of the domains belonging to Kim Dotcom have expired and are now listed for sale. Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak the domains were not supposed to expire. “This should not have happened,” he says, adding that someone else in his team handled the registrations. Huge Domains picked up one of the domains. From the article: After the seized Megaupload and Megavideo domains ran malicious ads last month, there is more Mega domain strangeness to report. Various domain ... read more ...
Sun 14th June 2015
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GoDaddy: Alleged discriminatory email not authentic - GoDaddy says it didn’t send email calling job applicant an obese Christian. GoDaddy has formally denied allegations that it sent an email to a job applicant explaining that it wouldn’t hire him because he was an obese Christian. The denial included detailed steps the company took to determine the email wasn’t authentic. Keith Connolly applied for a job with GoDaddy. He later received a rejection email. In addition to the form rejection email he received, he said the bottom included a forwarded ... read more ...
 
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How to name your startup - No one knows the value of a great domain as much as a startup. That is why some of the most successful new startups shell out upwards of $500,000 for a category killer premium name. But where does that leave everyone else? According to Wakefield Research, 52 percent of people would change their name if they had a chance to. Naming a startup is often an exercise in frustration. It is hard enough to find an acceptable name that is not already in use. But the really frustrating part ... read more ...
Sat 13th June 2015
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced ... read more ...
 
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UDRP's Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com; Unbiased.com; AENA.com - UDRP’s have been filed on Filed On: eWomen.com; GSSF.com, Unbiased.com and AENA.com ewomen.com has an original registration date of 1997 and is currently registered to Terra Serve of Grand Cayman and is currently being parked to a generic adult landing page. Looking at Screenshots.com, the domain appears to have been parked for many years except for a time where is was a “contest” page. There is a trademark filed on the term ewomen which was filed bye WomenNetwork, Inc. of Dallas Texas on ... read more ...
 
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France Tells Google To Expand "Right To be Forgotten" Or There Will Be Sanctions - It was a little over a year ago when a European court decided Google had to grant its citizens the right to be forgotten. As a refresher this is what the court said: In an advisory judgment stemming from a Spanish case, The Court of Justice of the European Union said Google and other search engines do have control of individuals’ private information, given that they sometimes compile and present links to it in a systematic way. The court found that under European law, individuals have a right to ... read more ...
 
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Acquires 170 iCloud Domains From Xcerion - In April 2011 Apple Inc. reportedly paid $4.5 Million dollars for the one domain name iCloud.com from a company named Xcerion. Fast forward some 4 years later and now 170 iCloud related domains have transferred ownership from Xcerion to Apple Inc according to whois records. Some Facts 167 of the domain names “start with” the term iCloud 2 start with My 1 starts with OS (osicloud.com) All of the domain names are either .com, .net and .org All the domain names were registered at Network Solutions ... read more ...
Fri 12th June 2015
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Law and Disorder: When .Brand Meets .Crime - Barclays Bank is a .brand pioneer, having recently announced plans to migrate its primary online presence to two new gTLDs it will operate on its own behalf. But Barclays Bank has also just plead guilty to a major financial services felony and been fined $2.4 billion for that criminal activity. While the new gTLD Registry Agreement is clear that a registry operator must remove any officer or director convicted of a felony, it is ambiguous in regard to whether the Agreement can be terminated ... read more ...
 
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Almost All Of Free .Berlin Domain Names Have Expired 37K So Far - .Berlin had over 31,000 domain names expire yesterday adding to the previous day where over 36,000 domain names expired. .Berlin about a year ago allowed free domain registrations for 2 days, which totaled somewhere between 70,000-75,000 domain names with two registrants picking up almost 70,000 domain names just between the two. Now that these free domain names have come up for renewal it seems very few have been renewed. Basically we are seeing 67,000 of the free domain names have expired At the ... read more ...
 
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Canadian Court Rules It Can Order Google To Block A Website Globally - TechDirt.com published an article this morning that deals with what has been a growing trend around the world. Countries wanting to dictate terms to Google. A Canadian court has ruled that it can order Google to block websites globally. This all started with one company accusing another of selling counterfeit goods. From the article: Almost exactly a year ago we wrote about a troubling lawsuit in British Columbia, where a court ruled that Google needed to block access to a website globally. The ... read more ...