Category Archives: EN

Sun 6th September 2015
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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 ...
 
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100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are ‘Shady’ - 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” attacks, or other suspicious content. One hundred percent of sites accessed with the.zip and.review TLD that had ... read more ...
Sat 5th September 2015
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Google Registers Alphabet.Sex in Sunrise: How Did They Do That? + More Generic's Reg As TM - Google has added another domain name to its growing Alphabet brand, this time Alphabet.sex which got registered yesterday. But Google registering another Alphabet domain name is not the story. The issue is how did Google get that domain name registered in Sunrise when to register a domain name in any new gTLD Sunrise period the registrant has to have a registered trademark for the term and then apply to the Trademark Clearinghouse before being able to register a new gTLD domain in the Sunrise period. I ... read more ...
 
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New Web addresses a cybercrime playground – Lid Time - The listed TLDs have more than 95% of their sites with shady ratings in its main database. The recent expansion of top-level domains (TLDs) has created fertile ground for cyber scammers, according to a study published on Tuesday by security company Blue Coat. These two are followed by the.country domain (99.97%),.kim (99.74%),.cricket (99.57%),.science (99.35%),.work (98.20%),.party (98.07%),.gq (Equatorial Guinea) (97.68%), and.link (96.98%). “In order to build a better security posture, ... read more ...
 
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100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are ‘Shady’ - That’s the discovering of a brand new report from enterprise safety agency. “What makes the zip TLD interesting is that it really only has one live domain as of today: nic.zip, which is Google’s pre-registration page”, Chris Larsen wrote in a post. And Blue Coat found that more than 95% of websites in the 10 newest TLDs are suspicious. The opposite eight, together with.nation, .kim, .cricket, .science, .work, .celebration, .gq (Equatorial Guinea) and.hyperlink, weren’t a lot ... read more ...
 
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Security Firm Calls Out Top 10 Most Suspicious New gTLDs - The report discovered that 100 % of the web sites in Blue Coat's database with the top-level domains of.zip and.assessment have been suspicious. The other eight, including.country, .kim, .cricket, .science, .work, .party, .gq (Equatorial Guinea) and.link, were not much safer, with 96.98 percent to 99.97 percent of the websites they hosted deemed untrustworthy."As the number of TLDs has increased, so have the opportunities for attackers", warns Blue Coat. "To be able to construct a greater safety ... read more ...
 
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‘Shadiest’ New Internet Addresses - New research by security firm Blue Coat offers us an interesting a petty mixed picture of how the new domains possibilities are being used and, sure enough, some of them are being abused on an industrial scale to game search engines and worse. For example, in case of the domain.kim, the researchers discovered websites serving up pages that mimic popular video and image sites and prompt unprotected visitors to unwittingly download malware. “Generally, if you look closer, most of these appear ... read more ...
 
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Google’s ‘.zip’ domain not dangerous: Study -

Google does a flattering good pursuit of operative out what you’re looking for, though a some-more specific we are a improved your formula will be.

Using operators does only that, so for instance enclosing a word in selection outlines — “like this” — searches for that specific phrase, adding a reduction pointer excludes that word (salsa recipe — tomatoes) and regulating OR gives Google a choice, eg. World Cup plcae 2014 or 2022.

Via: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 
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Google Does Not Run Shady Domain, Study Authors Say - Clicking on a Web address ending in .zip will not endanger users, the authors of a study that put .zip at the top of a list of "shady Web neighbourhoods" said on Friday.Google, which owns the top-level domain (TLD) .zip challenged the study after it was published on Tuesday..zip is one of more than 1,000 new TLDs that have cropped up since a liberalisation of Web addresses in the past two years, adding to the familiar .com, .org and .gov.The study published by enterprise security company Blue ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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Blue Coat Puts Google’s .Zip TLD On Bad Neighbor List - The Security analyst blog Blue Coat defended why one of Google's new domain names, .zip, made it to the top of its "shady Web neighborhoods" list after Google and others questioned the move. Google's .zip top-level domain name is one of more than 1,000 new TLDs that surfaced since ICANN freed a multitude of Web addresses, adding to .com and .org. "What makes the .zip TLD interesting is that it really only has one live domain as of today: nic.zip, which is Google's pre-registration page," wrote ... read more ...
 
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Star Wars First Assault Game Back In The Works? Domain Reg Hints At It - *See update at bottom of page, which announces beta release of First Assault by Nexon. FirstAssaultGame.com has been registered by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client using generic whois data currently. Does this mean that the Star Wars game, First Assault may be back in the works? Doing some research, here are some findings: According to StarWars.Wikia.com : “Star Wars: First Assault was a video game in development at LucasArts. It was canceled due to the closure of LucasArts after ... read more ...
 
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.Club Publishes Aug Domain Results, Over $1 Million Cumulative Sales - The .club registry has published its registry reserved premium name SnapNames sales report for the month of August 2015 and it has now passed the $1 Million dollar mark in cumulative registry reserved premium domain name sales! The release states: As of August 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $1,099,780.20.  The highest single sale remains Wine.club at $140,000.00.  We introduced our tiered premium names to the registrar channel on July 1, 2015 ... read more ...
 
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Panel manners that Rightside's .Cam focus is still in a mix - String confusion objection ruling is overturned. Verisign’s successful string confusion objection against Rightside’s .cam top level domain name has been overturned. ICANN was put in a sticky situation after Verisign’s string confusion objections against two .cam applicants failed, but it prevailed against Rightside’s .cam application. The group decided to have a panel review the Rightside decision, and that panel has overturned (pdf) the original decision. As a result, the two other applicants ... read more ...
 
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Domain Dunce Award: Blue Coat - Security firm should admit it screwed-up labeling .zip the shadiest top level domain. It’s been a while since I’ve handed out a prestigious Domain Dunce award, but this week’s “Shady TLDs” report from security firm Blue Coat is very deserving. Both Michael Berkens and Kevin Murphy covered the original report, which labeled .Zip the shadiest top level domain with 100% shady sites. There’s just one problem: .Zip is an unreleased top level domain name from Google. There’s only one second ... read more ...
 
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Domain Name Marketplace Launched New gTLD Service - Sep 4, 2015 - (Newswire) 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 to the next batch of registries. "We create organic channels to attract the right buyer by setting unique, branded parking pages and the tech they need to transact, negotiate and come to terms ... read more ...
 
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This Weeks New gTLD Totals: Amsterdam 12,681; .FYI 1,159; .MBA 701; .Fans 653 - 4 new gTLD extensions launched this week into General Availability (GA) where the could be registered into a 1st come, 1st served basis. Including domain names registered in Sunrise by trademark holders and before GA (.Fans did not have a landrush or an Early Access Program) here are the total number of domain registrations according to ntldstats.com as of the last zone update: .Amsterdam 12,681 .FYI 1,159 .MBA 701 .Fans 653 .Fans as I said above did not have a landrush or an Early Access Period ... read more ...
 
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Uniregistry continues to gleam in .Com Winners and Losers - Here’s how registrars fared with .com in May. Uniregistry recently announced that it crossed the million domain milestone. I’m not sure how Frank Schilling’s own domain names and North Sound new TLDs are accounted for, but the number is strong even if all of his domains in the total. For the second month in a row, Uniregistry tops the transfer gains in Verisign’s monthly report. Keep in mind that these reports are published after a three month delay. So this post is about May’s results. ... read more ...
 
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Owners of emazing.nl Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On emazing.com - Emazing B.V. of Baarn, Netherlands which owns and operate the website emazing.nl, represented by Van der Goen advocaten B.V., Netherlands has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name emazing.com The company that owns emazing.nl was first incorporated in 2000 the domain name emazing.com was transferred several times since its original registration in 2007 Here are the highlights of the one member panel of Matthew S. Harris: The Complainant is a company founded ... read more ...
 
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CPE numbers don't supplement adult for CPAs - Accounting groups fail to make the case that they should get community status for .CPA applications. Two applicants for the .CPA top level domain name have lost Community Priority Evaluations. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and CPA Australia Ltd both failed to score the required 14 points out of 16 necessary to get Community status. They were tripped up on the Nexus requirement, where neither scored a point. In both cases, the CPE panels noted that the applications restricted ... read more ...
 
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Announcing The Women’s Meet Up 2015 In Ft. Lauderdale Sept 25th & 26th - On Friday, Sept. 25 and Saturday, Sept.26, South Florida’s most influential, ambitious and passionate women will unite for 32 Event’s Women’s Meet Up 2015. The event will be hosted at the Hyatt Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale, right before THE Domain Conference which will be held at the same venue from September 26th-29th. “The event will celebrate and highlight the successes of local cultural and financial leaders and provide inspiration and motivation for women hoping to advance personally ... read more ...
 
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Emazing.nl nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Web design firm in Netherlands is a reverse domain name hijacker. Web design firm Emazing B.V., which uses the domain name Emazing.nl, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Emazing.com. Amazingly, Emazing’s lawyers seem to have really shot themselves in the foot: they submitted a supplemental filing that was key to the RDNH finding. The owner of Emazing.com registered the domain name before the complainant had a trademark for Emazing. But Emazing.com ... read more ...
 
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Did Premium 2 Letter Domain Name TN.com Sell? - This morning, the premium 2 letter .com domain name TN.com has transferred out of domain name registrar Fabulous.com to GoDaddy.com. This movement can indicate a domain name has sold. What we know. Back in 2011, whois records showed the domain name was owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. The domain name has been under whois privacy ever since but the domain has been using Mark.com name servers recently, which is common with Vertical Axis, Inc. owned domain names. The domain name was using DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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Domain Movers: Worldwide.com, Shotput.com, Logs.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is unique! Domain Movers is exciting! Domain Movers is fun! Domain Movers presents to you a “behind the scenes” look at what large companies are buying, registering and simply moving domain name wise! These are often early signs of a future advertising campaigns. A new product launch. A better domain name. And so much more! Here are the latest movements we detected, focused mainly on large corporations: Carnival Corporation has purchased the domain name WLCL.com from Vertical Axis. ... read more ...
 
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Here's one source behind a proliferation of Whois marketing - Cheap, fresh whois data is leading to increased spam and telemarketing. I usually keep my iPhone on “do not disturb” mode at night. But not on August 16. My wife was traveling, so I kept it on in case she needed to reach me. At 4:19 in the morning, my phone pinged and woke me up. It wasn’t my wife. It was this text message: The text message I received was from Devan Crow, who owns a Florida business called SkyNet Group LLC. For $500 a quarter (or less for longer term subscriptions), Crow ... read more ...
 
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AISE.com during $19.5k and other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. China is back with AISE.com ($19.5k) foremost among expired domain sales at NameJet. These days any LLLL.com attracts bids, whatever the letters; yet this domain ought to be classified as meaningful Pinyin rather than as an acronym or an arbitrary 4-letter string. In Chinese, ài / 愛 means “to love”; and sè / 色 means “color”, “appearance”, or “sex”. Therefore it may be that China likes sex more than AISE, ... read more ...