Monthly Archives: September 2015

Thu 10th September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Verräterische URLs - Der amerikanische Internetverwalter Icann hat seit Ende 2013 ungefähr 750 neue Top Level Domains (TLDs) wie .party oder .guru freigegeben. Seither wurden rund sieben Millionen Websites unter diesen neuen TLDs registriert. Das Sicherheitsunternehmen Blue Coat hat diese jetzt genauer unter die Lupe genommen, um herauszufinden, welche Endungen am häufigsten von Internet-Betrügern und Spammern genutzt werden. Bildstrecken Gucken Sie anderen ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Domeinen verborgen Tor-websites officieel erkend - Dit heeft een divisie van domeinbeheerder ICANN bekendgemaakt. Er is een voorstel goedgekeurd, waardoor .onion gebruikt mag worden als een top-level domeinnaam. Websites op het Tor-netwerk gebruiken al langer .onion-domeinnamen, maar deze werden eerder nog niet erkend door ICANN. De websitedomeinen waren alleen te bezoeken vanuit een speciale Tor-browser. Tor-websites mogen door de goedkeuring gebruikmaken van SSL-certificaties om pagina's te beveiligen.  Anoniem netwerk Websites op ... read more ...
 
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Lawsuit filed after Materia.com UDRP, and it's an engaging case - Michele Dinoia has cybersquatted in the past, but was Materia.com different? Michele Dinoia has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against California company Materia, Inc., after Materia won a UDRP for Dinoia’s domain name Materia.com. The lawsuit seeks to stay the transfer and seeks a finding reverse domain name hijacking. National Arbitration panelist Richard DiSalle found in Materia, Inc’s favor in a UDRP decision dated August 20. He ordered Dinoia’s domain name registrar, Name.com, ... read more ...
 
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"DotWorld_IDN" TLD in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Launches Special … - HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015. The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in Chinese; "Seikai" in Japanese and "Segye" in Korean means the "world" across Chinese, ... read more ...
 
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Les nouveaux tld, terre d asile des malwares - Menu Articles de la revue de presse : - l'ensemble [tous | francophone] - par mots clé [tous] - par site [tous] - le tagwall [voir] - Top bi-hebdo de la revue de presse [Voir] S'abonner au fil RSS global de la revue de presse Les nouveaux tld, terre d asile des malwaresPar CNIS magLe [2015-09-10] à 09:18:44Présentation : Bluecoat qui a eu mauvaise presse il y a peu multiplie aujourd hui les articles sur les activités des black hats. Le dernier en date s intitule DO NOT ENTER Blue Coat ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Donuts Gets At Least 20 Two Letter Domain Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP For adult To $12,500 Each - Donuts released over 200,000 two character domain names across all of its extensions in its Early Access Program (EAP) and we counted at least 20 registrations, on Day 1 although we are sure there are more. The domains that were registered on day 1 ranged IMHO to great domains well with the money to domains I wouldn’t have registered in General Availability. The wholesale cost for a EAP day 1 domain name registration is $10,000.  The retail price varies by domain name registrar but seems to be ... read more ...
 
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TLD Podcast #20: Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto - Floyd Mayweather–Andre Berto is a major topic of discussion on this week’s podcast. We also preview the rest of the plethora of boxing action on tap for the coming weekend, and recap fights involving Austin Trout and Anthony Dirrell. — September top-10 pound-for-pound rankings —   In this episode, Diego and I break down Floyd Mayweather’s “farewell” fight, which is disappointingly coming against Andre Berto. We debate Mayweather’s legacy and a consider a slew of “what ... read more ...
Wed 9th September 2015
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EFF to ICANN: Privacy Must be Purposeful—Not an Afterthought - The working group at Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Number (ICANN) that has been tasked with designing a new domain registration database can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes to domain registration services. ICANN’s Expert Working Group on gTLD Registration Directory Services (EWG) issued a Preliminary Issue Report on Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Services to Replace WHOIS in July, and EFF has submitted comments. Our bottom line ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Verräterische URLs - Der amerikanische Internetverwalter Icann hat seit Ende 2013 ungefähr 750 neue Top Level Domains (TLDs) wie .party oder .guru freigegeben. Seither wurden rund sieben Millionen Websites unter diesen neuen TLDs registriert. Das Sicherheitsunternehmen Blue Coat hat diese jetzt genauer unter die Lupe genommen, um herauszufinden, welche Endungen am häufigsten von Internet-Betrügern und Spammern genutzt werden.Im Rahmen ihrer Untersuchung haben die Experten Webanfragen von über ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
17 finish user sales including a .XYZ domain name - Sedo sold $1.1 million of domain names last week, including these end user sales. Sedo handled a higher-than-usual 647 domain name transactions last week totaling $1.1 million. 56% — slightly hire than usual — were “buy now” sales. Among the end user buyers were a site that connects bands to wedding gigs, a food sustainability organization, and some guy named Paul who bought Paul.xyz. (The abc.xyz effect continues!) Here’s a look at 17 end user purchases that took place at Sedo over the ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Over 200 LLLL.com Low Priced Domains Are in a 4.CN/ROTD Auction Closing Tomorrow - The RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction starts to close tomorrow morning Thursday September 10, at 8AM EST or 8PM Hong Kong time, over a staggered 4 hour time period with around 115 domain name closing each hour. We have looked at some great LL.com, NN.com, LLL.com, NNN.com domain names which has bids into the five, six and even seven figures and the 6 million in bids placed in domain names at auction but there are also over 200 LLLL.com domain names that have a reserve price of no more than $1,500 and ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How can we move liquidity to a domain name business? - Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domains sold at multiples and the current three letter .com craze. But for the most part and for most domains, there’s a complete lack of liquidity. Inefficient markets create opportunity, but they also make it difficult for market participants. A more ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Movers: TDAI.com, Jibo.com, E3.com & More Domains - Welcome to another action packed Domain Movers where we detect recent movement on domain names that have been mainly all acquired by large corporations, some new startups and simply valuable domain names on the move for different reasons. These are often early detection’s that will result in new advertising campaigns, products, services and much more. Here we go: Freedman Electronics PTY LTD which acquired the domain name Rode.com from Tucows back in January 2015 as I reported here, has officially ... read more ...
 
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NameJet's Aug in Review – 3 impression delayed down? - Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house fell far short of July’s million plus. But that was to be expected, since July set the venue’s all-time record for total sales; and more than half a million came from a single record-breaking auction. Looking all the way back, August turns out to be right in ... read more ...
 
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Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker - Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its legacy system to a reseller platform under the ownership of KeyDrive. The new system was confusing to users. Worse, migration errors led to domain names missing from accounts and incorrect account balances. Support and communication during the transition ... read more ...
 
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PR Newswire – Virtual - HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015. The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in Chinese; "Seikai" in Japanese and "Segye" in Korean means the "world" across Chinese, ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
"DotWorld_IDN" TLD in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Launches Special … – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015.The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million led by SGJ.com during $31,500 - Over the past week, 647 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: sgj.com at 31,500 USD Top ccTLD:  jj.de at 7,521 USD Top “other” TLD: 238.net at 9,130 USD New Gtld sales for the week: paul.xyz    1999    USD hallo.taxi    1150    EUR money.solutions    1000    USD A couple of repeating themes from last week, aa1122.com sold for 2,495 ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
An optimistic view on China’s tough new domain name regulations, and more from … - Jacob Schindler Today marked the final day of DOMAINfest Asia, a first-of-its-kind international conference aimed at balancing Eastern and Western perspectives on issues including gTLDs, IDNs and the regulatory challenges unique to the Chinese Internet. World Trademark Review ferried across the Pearl River Estuary for a look at day two of the event ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Namejet Publishes Almost $400K In Domain Sales In August -

Namejet.com released a reportable sales for Aug totaling $393,859.

Only those domain names that sole and were paid for by a finish of Aug 2015 are enclosed as good as usually domain name that sole for $2,000 or more.

Here are a domains and a sales prices for August:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Verisign: Trump & Alphabet Both Make tip 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net In August - The words Bank, Local, Experts, Trump, Scope. Alphabet, Fantasy, Tomorrow, Method and Teeth were the top trending keywords registered in .Com in August according to Verisign the registry for the .com and .net extensions. Alphabet is related to Google’s naming of its parent company and Trump I think you can figure that one out for yourself. Trump and Alphabet where the only two trending keywords to make the top 10 of .com and .net Before anyone goes and registers a bunch of Trump domains you might ... read more ...
 
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Trump is still trending…in .com - Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, “trump” made the list of Verisign’s trending keywords in .com registrations. That’s impressive since the list is created by looking at the jump the keyword made over the previous month. And if you think Verisign completely lost out on Google’s ... read more ...
 
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New .LOVE TLD Tops 10000 Domain Sales Due To Strong Sales in Asia - Beijing, China – The new .LOVE TLD [Top Level Domain] has successfully launched on the Internet (more details available at www.get.love) and is rapidly selling web domain names to couples, individuals, and businesses. "We are delighted with the growth of our .LOVE web domain sales, especially in the past two weeks. Beginning with the Qixi Festival on August 20 (Double Sevens on the Chinese calendar), .LOVE has seen phenomenal growth and has increased its overall number of domains by over 30% ... read more ...
 
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ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A domain it used to possess iPayments.com - In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com The company who brought the complaint used to own the domain name and let the registration lapse which the three member panel found to be “inexcusable”: “The Complainant did previously register the disputed domain name, and was not prevented from doing ... read more ...
 
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Down The Stretch We Come as a ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes Wed @ 8AM EST - The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 331 domain names have bids as of publication, including many with no reserves. You can see all the domain names in the auction here In all there are are 545 domain names in auction meaning that well over 60% have a bid. The auction starts to close over a four hour staggered period on September 10th at 8pm Hong Kong time,  which is September 10th,  8am EST, which we previous reported incorrectly. As ... read more ...