Monthly Archives: September 2015

Tue 8th September 2015
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Symantec released obvious for rating domain registrars - Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells the web security product line Norton, suggests that calculating a registrar reputation score helps determine how much scrutiny to give to websites connected to domain names at that registrar. If a registrar has a high proportion of names distributing malware, responsible ... read more ...
 
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Domínios personalizados podem esconder sites perigosos; entenda - Domínios de Internet personalizados podem esconder sites suspeitos de práticas nocivas aos usuários. Muitos desses espaços ocultam sistemas para distribuição de spam, malwares, botnet e ataques phishing. Todos os dias são criados 20 mil novos sites, que só duram três mesesDomínios de topo (TLDs) são a parte final do endereço dos sites. No TechTudo, por exemplo, ".com.br" é o TLD. Domínios de topo personalizados substituem esse trecho por termos mais complexos, como ".review", ".science", ... read more ...
 
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Lead Gen and Domain Names with Braden Pollock – DNW Podcast #49 - Can domainers make money with lead gen? Is there a scaleable way to monetize domain names with lead generation? Today’s guest, Braden Pollock, runs lead generation company Legal Brand Marketing. We’ll chat about monetizing domains with lead gen, as well as get Braden’s opinion on new top level domains (he’s invested in some) and the state of the domain name aftermarket. Plus: a new Domain Dunce, .com winners and losers, not quite “emazing”, domain scams and congrats to .Online. Subscribe ... read more ...
 
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.Club banks with some-more reward sales in August - .Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains come with a one time premium rather than annual renewal. Last month it sold 15 premium .club domains through nine different sources, led by 6 sales at GoDaddy. The top sales were Super.club (not supper) for $7,095, and Sea.club and Betting.club for $7,000 ... read more ...
 
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Donuts releasing 2 impression domain names this week - TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two letter domain names, such as TV.show and NY.pizza, will debut with a seven day Dutch auction tomorrow. This is essentially the same as Early Access, which has been run for all Donuts releases and name collision names. The following Wednesday, names will revert ... read more ...
 
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CSC Sep New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot - The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the entire report here. CSC publishes a New gTLD report every two months, and it’s “designed to update digital marketers and their peers in legal and IT about how new gTLDs are being adopted,we examine how .brand domains are being used and how effectively ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names - Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are key targets for .ski don’t have trademarks, so the Limited Registration Period (LRP) enabled them to get first dibs on domains before they headed to general availability. Among those participating in sunrise or LRP include: The most famous ski resorts ... read more ...
Mon 7th September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Onderzoek onthult de gevarenzones op internet - Rapport toont dat meer dan 95 procent van de websites van de top-10 nieuwe domeinextensies verdacht zijn; .zip en .review zijn de grootste delinquentenBlue Coat Systems, Inc., een marktleider op het gebied van IT-beveiligingsoplossingen, publiceert nieuw onderzoek voor consumenten en bedrijven naar de veiligheid van de Top-Level Domains (TLDs), de meest gebruikte domeinextensies op internet. TLDs, zoals .nl en .com, zijn de ‘zones’ op internet ... read more ...
 
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Les nouveaux TLD : des zones très dangereuses – CIO - Business Franck Salien, -->Le 08 Septembre 2015 Le modle conomique des registres les pousse au laxisme. La politique trs laxiste des registres des nouveaux TLD rend potentiellement trs dangereux les sites utilisant ces TLD selon une tude Blue Coat. 99,98% des sites utilisant l'un des nouveaux gTLD [generic Top Level Domain] agrs par l'ICANN, le .country, sont dangereux. C'est le rsultat d'une tude mene par Blue Coat, ... read more ...
 
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Dziesięć najbardziej niebezpiecznych domen - Firma Blue Coat przeprowadziła badanie, które sugeruje, że witryny rozpowszechniające szkodliwe treści należałoby umieścić w jednej domenie TLD, nadając jej na przykład nazwę .evil, tak aby internauci wiedzieli co im grozi? Okazuje się, że najgroźniejsze są domeny .zip i .review. 100% zarejestrowanych w nich witryn zawiera szkodliwe treści. Raport został opracowany przez firmę Blue Coat, po przeanalizowaniu kilkudziesięciu milionów witryn, z usług których korzystało ... read more ...
 
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Dziesięć najbardziej niebezpiecznych domen TLD - Firma Blue Coat przeprowadziła badanie, które sugeruje, że witryny rozpowszechniające szkodliwe treści należałoby umieścić w jednej domenie TLD, nadając jej na przykład nazwę .evil, tak aby internauci wiedzieli co im grozi? Okazuje się, że najgroźniejsze są domeny .zip i .review. 100% zarejestrowanych w nich witryn zawiera szkodliwe treści. Raport został opracowany przez firmę Blue Coat, po przeanalizowaniu kilkudziesięciu milionów witryn, z usług których korzystało ... read more ...
 
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Cómo minimizar el riesgo de dominios inseguros -  Con la explosión de los nuevos TLD (Dominios de Nivel Superior), se incrementan las oportunidades con las que cuentan los atacantes para conseguir víctimas, al menos así lo aseguró una reciente investigación de Blue Coat. Aquí le damos algunos consejos sobre cómo minimizar el riesgo que entrañan las zonas inseguras de la web. El proveedor también alertaba sobre los TLD turbios, mismos que aún son suelo fértil para la actividad maliciosa, ya que la mayoría de estos ... read more ...
 
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Domain name marketplace Undeveloped launches new gTLD service - ga('create', 'UA-47275228-1', 'getnews.info'); ga('send', 'pageview'); Domain name marketplace Undeveloped launches new gTLD service Posted by admin on September 7, 2015 AMSTERDAM – September 07, 2015 – The domain name marketplace Undeveloped.com today announces rolling out a new gTLD service to more registries. After a successful pilot with the .Amsterdam extension Undeveloped now aims to provide its premium gTLD domain services ... read more ...
 
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Marriott finally finds a use for a top-level domain extension - Seems like an (internet) age ago, but 2011 and 2012 saw a huge marketing campaign for businesses to buy additional web domains. The idea was supposed to be quite simple: web naming regulator Icann wanted to the restrictive 22 domain extensions (such as .com, .co.[country], .biz, etc) and open up the web to an almost infinite number of new forms. The expansion of the so-called Generic Top-Level Domain (GTLD) system would allow companies or individuals to create extensions based on geography, ... read more ...
 
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95 procent nieuwe domeinextensies is verdacht - .zip en .review zijn de grootste delinquenten 7 september 2015 - TLDs, zoals .nl en .com, zijn de ‘zones’ op internet en uit onderzoek blijkt dat daar ook ‘gevarenzones’ bij zijn. Dit zijn de domeinextensies die het meest geassocieerd worden met verdachte websites. Blue Coat ontdekte tien verschillende gevarenzones waar meer dan 95 procent van de websites verdacht worden van kwaadaardige activiteiten. De domeinextensies .zip and .review scoren zelfs 100 procent  op de meetladder van ... read more ...
 
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‘Sommige nieuwe domeinextensies worden op grote schaal misbruikt voor … – Dutch IT - Top Level Domains (TLD’s) zijn domeinextensies. De laatste jaren komen er steeds meer TLD’s bij. Helaas blijken er onder deze nieuwkomers een aantal TLD’s te zijn die nagenoeg uitsluitend worden gebruikt door websites die worden verdachte van kwaadaardige praktijken. Bij 10 van deze TLD’s wordt meer dan 95% van alle websites verdacht van dergelijke praktijken. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van Blue Coat Systems, leverancier van IT-beveiligingsoplossingen. ... read more ...
 
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Onderzoek: 95% van de websites van nieuwe domeinextensies zijn verdacht - Top Level Domains (TLD’s) zijn domeinextensies. De laatste jaren komen er steeds meer TLD’s bij. Helaas blijken er onder deze nieuwkomers een aantal TLD’s te zijn die nagenoeg uitsluitend worden gebruikt door websites die worden verdachte van kwaadaardige praktijken. Bij 10 van deze TLD’s wordt meer dan 95% van alle websites verdacht van dergelijke praktijken. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van Blue Coat Systems, leverancier van IT-beveiligingsoplossingen. ... read more ...
 
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Gefährliche, neue Top Level Domains? - "Wer soll die eigentlich alle nutzen?" fragen Kritiker der neuen Top Level Domains gerne. Die Studie eines IT-Sicherheitsunternehmens meint: Einige der Endungen wurden vor allem von Spammern und Internet-Ganoven entdeckt. Etwa 750 neue Top-Level-Domains wurden seit Ende 2013 von der Internetverwaltung ICANN freigeschaltet, mit bisher rund 7 Millionen Adressen. Das US-amerikanische IT-Sicherheitsunternehmens Blue Coat hat untersucht, welche Endungen wie stark für unschöne Zwecke ... read more ...
 
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Las zonas más turbias de la Web - Blue Coat reveló su nueva investigación que muestra las “zonas” o dominios de nivel superior (TLD) que tienen mayor relación con sitios web sospechosos. Uno de los hallazgos clave que presenta el informe es que más del 95 por ciento de los sitios web de 10 TLD diferentes se clasifican como sospechosos y que ese porcentaje llega al 100 por ciento para los TLD de los dos primeros puestos: .zip y .review. La empresa analizó cientos de millones de solicitudes web provenientes de más de 15.000 ... read more ...
Sun 6th September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The Web’s Most Dangerous Domains - Earlier this week, security firm Blue Coat Systems Inc released a list of the 10 most dangerous web domains. Although the list has drawn some high-profile objections, Blue Coat claims that more than 95 percent of the sites on these 10 Top Level Domains (TLDs) are suspicious. What Is A TLD? TLDs are the highest level ... read more ...
 
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¿Cuáles son las zonas más turbias de la web? - Blue Coat reveló la nueva investigación para consumidores y empresas, que muestra las “zonas” o dominios de nivel superior (TLD) que tienen mayor relación con sitios web sospechosos. Uno de los hallazgos clave que presenta el informe es que más del 95% de los sitios web de 10 TLD diferentes se clasifican como sospechosos y que ese porcentaje llega al 100% para los TLD de los dos primeros puestos: .zip y .review. Se analizaron cientos de millones de solicitudes web provenientes de más de ... read more ...
 
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100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are ‘Shady’ - domains like.FR (France), and.JP (Japan). As the number of TLDs has increased, so have the opportunities for attackers. Based on data just published (PDF) by the network security and deep packet inspection tool vendor Blue Coat, that’s exactly what happened: some of the new “neighborhoods” open for name registration have become nearly exclusively the domain of people setting up hosts for spam e-mailing, scams, shady software downloads, malware distribution, botnet operations and “phishing” ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Rick Schwartz Sells a NNN.com Domain Putting Him 2nd on The YTD Sales Chart - Rick Schwartz wrote to me today to tell me he sold an NNN.com domain name for an amount which will  land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015 per DnJournal. The transaction is still in  Escrow,  so the Domain King will not reveal what the domain is or what the purchase price was until the escrow transaction is closed. Rick,  like RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction is using 4.Cn escrow’s service to handle the transaction. Mr. Schwartz already has the highest domain sale of the year with ... read more ...
 
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Tuft & Needle Mattress Startup Buy Premium Domain Name TN.com - On the morning of September 4, 2015 I had a pretty good hunch that the premium 2 letter domain name TN.com likely sold and now we have confirmation that it did and to who! TN.com is now redirecting to TuftAndNeedle.com, which is a startup founded in 2013 that offers mattresses that are delivered to your door in a box. They are the buyers of the domain name TN.com. Tuft And Needle has the highest rated mattress on Amazon.com and prices start from $600 for a queen and $750 for a California King, delivered ... read more ...
 
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Unlock.me with a $20,000 Bid On Go Daddy Auctions - The public auction closes today for Unlock.me, the name received a $20,000 bid and is closing on Sunday. The domain was registered back in 2008 and is owned by the owner of DNPric.ES and BrandsAndJingles.com. The domain does have a website up which lets visitors know the domain is available for sale or lease, there is a link to the auction. This would not be the first time for Brands and Jingles to land a 5 figure .me sale, they sold Fine.me for $10,000 back in April. A succesful close at $20,000 ... read more ...