Author Archives: DomainHack.er

Sun 26th July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Frank Schilling On New gTLD’s and The Value of .Com In The Years Ahead - Frank Schilling in a comment to our post on .Bank getting 5,500 applications, had a very interesting comment: “”IMO Dot Com will still be the largest individual TLD, but many, many viable alternative TLD’s will marginalize the totality of .com’s mindshare in future. Speaking as the owner of a large portfolio of valuable dot com names, I once felt comfortable explaining that people should spend whatever it takes to buy one of my .com names because they could rest easy knowing their acquisition/investment ... read more ...
Sat 25th July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Morocco hacked along with parked domains of Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs … - 1,965903007 domain.ma, google.co.ma, google.ma, microsoft.ma and Kaspersky.ma hacked by hackers belonging to The Exploit3rs Hackers belonging to a group who go by the handle of The Exploit3rs hacked and defaced the official domains of Google, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs all three designated for Morocco. All the above domains were country code top level domains (ccTLD) are parked domains acquired by the tech biggies to protect the domain names from misused by cyber criminals. The Moroccan ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google Morocco hacked along with parked domains of Microsoft, Kaspersky Labs - 0944009 domain.ma, google.co.ma, google.ma, microsoft.ma and Kaspersky.ma hacked by hackers belonging to The Exploit3rs Hackers belonging to a group who go by the handle of The Exploit3rs hacked and defaced the official domains of Google, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs all three designated for Morocco. All the above domains were country code top level domains (ccTLD) are parked domains acquired by the tech biggies to protect the domain names from misused by cyber criminals. The Moroccan hackers ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Australia’s .AU Reaches 3 Million Registrations Solidifying Its Place Among … - Australia's Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, recognized .AU's achievement  noting, "The Internet is the most transformative ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Verisign: Brands Are Keeping Their .Com: Don’t See Anybody Abandoning .Com for … - In the Verisign earnings call yesterday the following question was asked by Fred Ziegel, Topeka Capital Markets. Fred Ziegel (Analyst – Topeka Capital Markets): But we don’t see them abandoning their .com.” Jim Bidzos (Executive Chairman, President and CEO): Added: “And just to clarify — for example, if we were to employ .verisign, we would never abandon verisign.com. Like most brands, we’ve invested heavily in promoting it. And everybody is familiar with it,  we would probably ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Calendrier des gTLDs – Semaine du 27 juillet au 2 août 2015 -   Partager cet article :Le fin de mois de juillet est très mouvementé en terme de lancement de nouvelles extensions. Pour une vision plus lointaine, SafeBrands vous invite à consulter le calendrier des nouvelles extensions.A vos plannings !Ouverture période Sunrise :30/07 – .abogado30/07 – .lawFermeture période Sunrise :31/07 – .lolOuverture période EAP :29/07 – .techFermeture période EAP :29/07 – .team29/07 – .show29/07 – .jewelryOuverture à tous :29/07 – .team29/07 – ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google clarifies TLD issues ahead of registry deadline | Purecontent Blog - Google has been discussing how it deals with the new top-level domains, or TLDs. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst with Google, took to the Google Webmaster Blog in response to what he said were questions and misconceptions among members of the webmaster community regarding the issue of TLDs. Google’s move to clarify issues pertaining to TLDs comes ahead of the 29th July deadline for .brand TLDs to sign the Registry Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google clarifies TLD issues ahead of registry deadline - Google has been discussing how it deals with the new top-level domains, or TLDs. John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst with Google, took to the Google Webmaster Blog in response to what he said were questions and misconceptions among members of the webmaster community regarding the issue of TLDs. Google’s move to clarify issues pertaining to TLDs comes ahead of the 29th July deadline for .brand TLDs to sign the Registry Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
.ART : une extension très convoitée -   Partager cet article :Le nouveau gTLD .ART semble avoir trouvé acquéreur suite aux enchères mises en place par l’ICANN courant juillet.Cette extension est la 2e extension de l’histoire des nouveaux gTLDs la plus  convoitée, avec 10 candidats. Le record est détenu avec 13 candidats par le .APP, extension remportée par Google qui avait déboursé plus tôt cette année la somme de 25 millions de dollars.Du fait que les enchères aient été privées, un tri naturel s’est fait : 50% ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
.africa domain remains in limbo - After over two-years two companies continue to fight tooth and nail to become the official registry operator for .africa. You might need to wait another three to six months to gain access to a .africa domain name as the process remains suspended following an ongoing battle over who gets to run the geographic top-level domain (gTLD). The battle for who gets to be the official registry operator for .africa has been going on for more than two years. South Africa's ZA Central Registry (ZACR) ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Internet-Spezialdomains: IETF streitet um .onion, .gnu und andere Technik … - Erst sah es gut aus für die Reservierung der Spezialdomain .onion. Zwar steht die Tor-Domain schon im so genannten Last Call der IETF. Aber bei der Standardisierungsorganisation hat man wenig Lust, sich politischen Streit ins Haus zu holen. Die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will eine Reservierung von Spezialdomains wie .onion für Tor und andere Dienste (etwa .bit für Namecoin oder das Gnu Name System .gnu) neu überdenken. Beim 93. Treffen der Standardisierungsorganisation ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Internet-Spezialdomains: IETF streitet um .onion, .gnu und andere Technik … - Erst sah es gut aus für die Reservierung der Spezialdomain .onion. Zwar steht die Tor-Domain schon im so genannten Last Call der IETF. Aber bei der Standardisierungsorganisation hat man wenig Lust, sich politischen Streit ins Haus zu holen. Die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will eine Reservierung von Spezialdomains wie .onion für Tor und andere Dienste (etwa .bit für Namecoin oder das Gnu Name System .gnu) neu überdenken. Beim 93. Treffen der Standardisierungsorganisation ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Internet-Spezialdomains: IETF streitet um .onion, .gns und andere Technik … - Erst sah es gut aus für die Reservierung der Spezialdomain .onion. Zwar steht die Tor-Domain schon im so genannten Last Call der IETF. Aber bei der Standardisierungsorganisation hat man wenig Lust, sich politischen Streit ins Haus zu holen. Die Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will eine Reservierung von Spezialdomains wie .onion für Tor und andere Dienste (etwa .bit für Namecoin oder das Gnu Name System .gnu) neu überdenken. Beim 93. Treffen der Standardisierungsorganisation ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
How do you buy a domain name? - DIVYANK TURAKHIA, founder CEO, Media.net, and co-founder, Directi. "In the offline space, you can still buy great real estate. But on the internet, that wasn't the case until new gTLDs (generic toplevel domain) came in. Now with new gTLDs, you can get your own .website or maybe .tech if you are tech company." "Since there is already heavy demand during gTLD auctions, treat it like a poker game. Investment in this space at this early stage makes sense. Think of it as buying real estate in a market ... read more ...
Thu 23rd July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results - VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), a global leader in domain names and Internet security, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2015. Second Quarter GAAP Financial ResultsVeriSign, Inc. and subsidiaries ("Verisign") reported revenue of $263 million for the second quarter of 2015, up 4.9 percent from the same quarter in 2014. Verisign reported net income of $93 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.70 for the second quarter of 2015, compared to net income of $100 ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Theralase achieves almost perfect kill-rate of cancer cells – Toronto … - Toronto-based,Theralase Technologies Inc. (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF:OTC), has recently announced the results of testing of bladder cancer treatment that received a 98% kill rate in an animal model.The treatment includes the company's patent-pending drug, known as TLD-1433, and laser light application which is used to activate the action. The 98% kill rate is the highest destruction rate seen in tests of any the Photo Dynamic Compounds, and comes after an extensive period of optimizing both the processes ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Theralase achieves almost perfect kill-rate of cancer cells - Toronto-based,Theralase Technologies Inc. (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF:OTC), has recently announced the results of testing of bladder cancer treatment that received a 98% kill rate in an animal model.The treatment includes the company's patent-pending drug, known as TLD-1433, and laser light application which is used to activate the action. The 98% kill rate is the highest destruction rate seen in tests of any the Photo Dynamic Compounds, and comes after an extensive period of optimizing both the processes ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Boston Globe Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Mucks It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Boston Globle Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Muck It Up – TheDomains.com - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Boston Globle Covers .Sucks & New gTLD’s & Muck It Up - The Boston Globe published a post on .Sucks and the new gTLD program and screwed up some basis information about .sucks and the new gTLD program itself. Here are some of the errors I found in the article. “Hundreds of these new domains have rolled out in the past couple of years, as supplements for the .com found in millions of Internet addresses” Nope just since January 2014. “”Vox Populi set a price of $2,499 for copyright holders who want to buy their versions of the .sucks address. Berard ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
.Brand Domain Names: Does Risk Outweigh Reward? - In a post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog a couple of days ago, there were several questions asked and answered about Google’s treatment of websites that use new gTLD domain name extensions. I had already understood how Google treats new gTLD extensions, but I wasn’t really sure about how Google would treat .brand domain names, such as .Google or .Barclays domain names. In the aforementioned blog post, a question about .brand domain names was posed and answered: Q: Will a .BRAND ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Sweeney, Collins back on deck for TLD Gympie round - TEAM TLD will be looking for two returning riders to continue their good form when they line up in this weekend's fourth round of the Queensland Road Team Series. The five-round series moves to Gympie this weekend for the round four Giro D'Mary Valley. Racing starts tomorrow with a 94km stage one road race. Sunday's stage two event is a 107km Gympie to Maleny road race. TLD will be without leading over 35 rider Trent West this weekend as he sits out as part of the team rostering. ... read more ...
Wed 22nd July 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Nouvelles extensions : Google n’en a rien à faire – ZDNet - Les nouvelles extensions de nom de domaine servent elles à quelque chose pour le référencement ? .sucks, .porn ou encore .immo fleurissent sur la toile, propulsé par l’Icann et l’Afnic. De quoi remplir les poches des régulateurs, mais comment les aiguilleurs, c'est-à-dire les moteurs de recherche, prennent la chose ?« Nous avons constaté que beaucoup d'internautes connaissaient mal le processus de traitement des nouveaux domaines » explique John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in FR and tagged
Nouvelles extensions : Google n’en a rien à faire - Les nouvelles extensions de nom de domaine servent elles à quelque chose pour le référencement ? .sucks, .porn ou encore .immo fleurissent sur la toile, propulsé par l’Icann et l’Afnic. De quoi remplir les poches des régulateurs, mais comment les aiguilleurs, c'est-à-dire les moteurs de recherche, prennent la chose ?« Nous avons constaté que beaucoup d'internautes connaissaient mal le processus de traitement des nouveaux domaines » explique John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Google’s John Mueller: New TLDs Have No Magical SEO Bonus – Search Engine … - John Mueller at Google must have a pet peeve against the misinformation domain name registrars push out about TLDs and SEO. He has time and time again said they play no role in ranking at Google. But that didn't stop John and Google from posting something official on the Google blog yesterday. John said Google has heard "questions and misconceptions" about the new TLDs and wanted to set the record straight. On Google+ John said the short version: Somewhat simplified: if you spot a domain ... read more ...