Category Archives: EN

Thu 21st May 2015
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PayPal fined $25million Related to a Pay Later Button - PayPal got hit with a $25 million fine for deceiving their customers. The pay later button is at the root of the problem, I know when I first started seeing it I thought it was annoying. I just want to pay for my domain registration, not looking to pay later for $10.99. Rob Beschizza wrote on Boing Boing covered the story: A few months ago, I noticed that PayPal put a “pay later” button where the usual payment button would be. It’s a tricky way to snooker users into the credit/debt treadmill, ... read more ...
Wed 20th May 2015
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Enom.com Informs Customers of "Very Sophisticated Attack" But No Domains Were Stolen - In an email to tonight from Taryn Naidu CEO of Enom.com told its customers that they “recently became the subject of what appears to be a very sophisticated attack by a group that targets large internet infrastructure companies. Within hours of this attack, we were in contact with federal law enforcement and the affected parties. This attack hijacked the DNS traffic of 4 domains for a very short period of time before we mitigated the situation.” “You have not been impacted by this incident ... read more ...
 
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.SUCKS Fights Back against Critics: Is It Enough to Convince Brand Owners to … - Many brand owners are holding out to see whether the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), or any other government agency in the United States or elsewhere, takes action against Vox Populi Registry Ltd. (Vox Populi) over what some have claimed is a “predatory scheme.” They may want to reconsider. Vox Populi, while the subject of congressional hearings and coming under attack from all sides, is defending itself and the right to create a platform for “legitimate critical commentary.” Will the ... read more ...
 
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Should Barclays Lose the .Barclays Top-Level Domain? - According to Reuters, Barclays has plead guilty to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates, and has agreed to pay substantial fines, along with other major banks. Barclays is also the operator of the .Barclays new top-level domain name. According to section 4.3(f) of the registry agreement with ICANN, ICANN may, upon notice to Registry Operator, terminate this Agreement if (i) Registry Operator knowingly employs any officer who is convicted of a misdemeanor related to financial activities ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Upgraded at Zacks (VRSN) - Zacks upgraded shares of Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research report released on Monday morning. Zacks’ analyst wrote, “Internet infrastructure assurance and domain registry services provider VeriSign reported strong first-quarter 2015 results with both earnings and revenues growing year over year. We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost results over the long ... read more ...
 
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Recapping NameJet's prohibited domain name sales month - NameJet had another strong month in April. Here’s a look at its results. As measured by the number of domain name sales closing at or above $2,000, so far 2015 is shaping up to be NameJet’s best year. Out of 47 months on record, just 8 have racked up 100 or more $2k+ sales. During 2014, no month saw 100 sales; yet 3 of the past 4 months are among those 8. March totaled 94, which is just shy. February set the all-time record. April’s high sale $32,220 is not as striking as we’ve often ... read more ...
 
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Flippa acquires Domain Holdings - Flippa bulks up sales engine with Domain Holdings. Website and domain name marketplace Flippa has acquired domain name brokerage Domain Holdings for an unspecified price. The combined companies expect to generate $70 million in revenue over the next 12 months. Flippa, originally created to sell existing websites, has expanded its domain name sales business in recent years. It also started hiring brokers to help move domain names, a role that Domain Holdings will now fill. Domain Holdings, founded ... read more ...
 
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Awareness still a plea for new tip turn domain names - Even at a webhosting conference… Leaders from five domain name companies took the stage at yesterday’s WorldHostingDays conference in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. The most interesting moment was during QA. Someone in the back of the room said he’d never heard of .Club before, and registered a few domains during the session. He had a question about an error message he got from a registrar about not being able to register a domain name — it sounded a lot like this 11 “illegal” message. What’s ... read more ...
 
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This Guy Want You To Pay A Tax On "Parked" 'Unused" Or "Idle" Domains - In a story published by Circleid.com written by  Alex Tajirian, CEO at DomainMart,  Mr. Tajirian suggests that all parked, “unused” or “idle” pages need to have a Tax imposed on them to reduce cybersquatting, even if the domain name is generic. Mr. Tajirian proposes that all “parked” domains or “unused” or “idle” domains be subject a tax similar to a property tax for real estate: “We need a tax.” “Right now a tax is the weapon needed by the domain name community. We face ... read more ...
 
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Toowoomba team rookies set for first taste of tour - FIVE riders will celebrate a special moment at Nobby this morning when they line up in Toowoomba colours to tackle their first National Road Series (NRS) event. The NRS debutantes will be part of the six-rider Team TLD competing for the second time in the FKG Tour of Toowoomba. The Queensland Road Team Series outfit made its home-tour debut in 2014 and has been granted a wild-card entry in to this year's event. Masters rider Trent West is the only team member to have contested an NRS ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2015
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.3 Million .TV and .Net Top The Charts - Over the past week, 607 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Top Sales: Top .com: dopo.com at 10,000 USD Top ccTLD: astrology.tv at 25,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: bd.net at 29,500 USD Dot Com took a breather from the top spot and nice to see a big .tv sale, the domain was registered since 2005, the name has been under privacy for awhile. Last registrant looked to be from Sweden, the domain was ... read more ...
 
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Let there be Theralase’s light, lasers, and anti-cancer compounds - Theralase Technologies Inc. (TSXV: TLT), had not one but two promising announcements last week on May 12th and 14th, regarding their anti-cancer drug, TLD-1433, a photodynamic therapy (PDT). As a result the stock was up from 30c on the 12th to 42c on the 14th, and at 37c on Friday the 15th. Perhaps the lights are now shining on the potential for this company, and light activated drugs to make cancer treatments less harsh, less invasive and quicker. They plan these treatments for people, companion ... read more ...
 
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This week: .Tennis, .One, .Bingo and more - Donuts launches a handful of good domain names this week and hosting provider One.com releases .One. The company behind One.com is shifting the dot to the left with .One. Donuts gets back into the game with four domain names exiting Early Access and now available at regular prices starting on Wednesday: .bingo, .chat, .style and .tennis. The company is also launching .apartments in early access this week. If you want to get a popular term, you can pay extra beginning Wednesday to secure it ahead ... read more ...
 
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Supermarket giant shuts Walmart.horse website after joke has bolted - The greatest horse-based web domain in history is no more: Walmart.horse has disappeared from the internet following a complaint from the American megastore chain. Registered in late February by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Jeph Jacques, author of webcomic Questionable Content, Walmart.horse was a simple website containing nothing but a picture of a horse superimposed on top of a Walmart store. In early March, Walmart sent Jacques a cease-and-desist letter, arguing that he was infringing on the ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .sucks for brand owners… - Registration of trade marks under the controversial new gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain) .sucks is now open. The sunrise period runs until 29 May 2015 for trade mark owners who have registered their trade marks in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). The general availability period will commence on 1 June 2015, after which anybody can apply to register a .sucks domain. The .sucks registry is operated by Vox Populi, which has marketed the new gTLD as a forum “designed to help consumers find their ... read more ...
 
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WorldHostingDays kicks off in Pennsylvania - WorldHostingDays‘ first stateside conference kicked off in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania last night. Rain made it difficult for some attendees to make it in time for Monday evening’s opening party, but hundreds of people crowded the exhibit hall and conference venue by this morning. As a “destination conference” a couple hours from Pittsburgh, the event is heavy on fun social and networking events. At lunch each day, attendees can go down a 1,980 foot slide, take the chairlift, go for a segway ... read more ...
 
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New domains revitalise old spam – IT - The new range of top level domains launched in January and intended for use by relevant communities and organisations has proved irresistible to spammers, according to Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 2015 analysis of the spam and phishing threats landscape. For many, the new domains represent an excellent tool for promoting unwanted or illegitimate advertising campaigns. The new generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration programme gives organisations the opportunity to choose a domain zone ... read more ...
 
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Rick Schwartz Maybe "Retired" But He Is Still The Domain King & Still Schooling Them Up - A lot of people in the domain world miss Rick Schwartz since he retired. His “Biggest Fan” who writes onlinedomain.com openly stated last week he was eagerly waiting for a new post from Rick on RicksBlog.com. The Domain King remains retired but of course he still owns a lot of domain names and gets offers  to which he responds to. Rick shared with me an exchange he had with a someone about a domain name he owns over the weekend, Flaunting.com What follows, with Rick’s permission is the email ... read more ...
 
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Donuts to start releasing collision and 2 impression domains subsequent month - Names will be released in batches over two months. Top level domain name company Donuts will begin making domain names from collision lists, along with certain two character domain names, available next month. The domain names will be released in batches related to categories of domains, such as photography domains and financial domains. This industry-batching should allow the company to market the availability to their target audiences. Most of the names that will be released are on the name collision ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on SoapBoxDerby.com Domain - A currently unknown entity has filed a UDRP on the domain name SoapBoxDerby.com that has been registered since 2001 and is owned by Vertical Axis. As it currently stands, it appears that Vertical Axis only defense is Laches (14 years since the domain was registered), as a live trademark filed in 1976 may be the ones who filed the UDRP: Owner (REGISTRANT) International Soap Box Derby, Inc. CORPORATION OHIO 789 Derby Downs Drive Akron OHIO 44306 International Soap Box Derby, Inc. uses the domain name ... read more ...
 
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Kellie Peterson joins Neustar - Domain name industry veteran moves to Neustar, where she’ll develop channel partnerships for domains sch as .co and .nyc. Kellie Peterson has left the President’s post at DNC Holdings (DirectNic) to join Neustar’s registry services team. At Neustar, Peterson will be responsible for growing the North American and Australian registry services markets. She will focus on growing Neustar’s managed domain name extensions (.Co, .nyc, .biz and .US). Kellie Peterson will team up with another Peterson ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Secures AppleID.com Domain Name - Apple Inc. has secured the domain name AppleID.com according to whois records from a Hiroshi Kaneko of Toyko. The domain name was registered May 26, 2004 and held the same registrant email ever since being created, which indicates that Hiroshi has owned the domain name ever since creation. The Apple Id is a “user name” used for iTunes, iCloud and many of Apple’s products and services. Interesting to note, Apple also registered the domain name AppleIdStore.us on May 16, 2015.  The .com was ... read more ...
 
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Hundreds of New Top-Level Domains Now Up for the Taking - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has expanded access to top-level domains, meaning domain extensions like .photography, .expert and .pizza are now available for the taking.This creates an opportunity for brands who wish to create a more identifiable online presence, but have not yet been able to secure an ideal domain name.The traditional .com domain space is super saturated, leaving little opportunity for new businesses to get the domain name of their choice without ... read more ...
 
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Premium .VOTING Domain Names Available Exclusively at NameJet - Just in time for the 2016 presidential election cycle, NameJet and the .voting Registry are offering 40 premium .voting domains at auction, including ovaloffice.voting. Kirkland, WA. USA (PRWEB) May 18, 2015 The .voting top level domain (TLD) is an ideal namespace to facilitate voting, surveys, ratings and discussions. NameJet and the .voting Registry are offering 40 hand-picked premium .voting names at auction ... read more ...