Thu 18th December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Take this to the .bank: financial institutions need to prepare for new gTLDs - Hundreds of new generic top-level domains are in the process of being rolled out this year and next, including many that will be of interest to the financial services industry.  One of them that seems likely to attract a high level of interest and buy-in is .bank.  fTLD Registry Services, a joint venture formed by a number of financial services companies and trade associations, applied for and was recently awarded the right to operate the .bank and .insurance gTLDs.  The .bank domain ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in DE and tagged
Server der Internetverwaltung ICANN angegriffen - Unbekannte Hacker haben sich Zutritt zu zentralen Systemen der ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) verschafft, jener Behörde, die die Verwaltung von IP-Adressen und DNS-System überwacht. Mittels "Spear Fishing" haben sich die Angreifer in einen zentralen Server gehackt, wie heise berichtet. Dabei wurden einzelne Angestellte mit manipulierten E-Mails ins Visier genommen, die aussahen, als kämen sie von anderen ICANN-Stellen selber. Über die E-Mail-Accounts haben ... read more ...
 
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A New Domain Name Dispute Alternative: The Uniform Rapid Suspension … - The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) was created as part of ICANN’s new gTLD program. A gTLD (generic top-level domain) is the “suffix” at the end of a domain name, most commonly .com, .org, .info, .biz and .us. Prior to the new gTLD program there were 23 gTLDs in operation.  The new gTLD program is expected to result in the launch of approximately 700 additional gTLDs. More than 400 new gTLDs have already been delegated, with the majority of these in operation. The expansion of ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN
“SeekingAlpha: Sears & Staples More Valuable As Domain Names Than The Brick & Motar Stores” - SeekingAlpha, just published s story right out of Rick Schwartz Playbook and something he has expressed for years on his blog, that Sears and Staples might be more valuable as domain names than as brick and mortar stores. “”What happens when a brick and mortar retailer’s brand becomes more valuable as a domain name than as a chain of stores?”” ” We might be seeing the answer to that question at department store legend Sears Holdings (NYSE: SHLD) and office supply category killer Staples ... read more ...
 
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Internet Advertising Revenues Hit $12.4 Billion Highest Quarter on Record - According to a press release out today, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC US, Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. climbed to an historic high of $12.4 billion for the third quarter of 2014, which is the highest quarter ever, besting the record-setting revenues of Q4 2013, which came in at $12.1 billion. “This milestone demonstrates marketers’ commitment to digital” Q3 2014’s milestone numbers represent a year-over-year uptick of 17% over the $10.6 billion reported for ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Digitale inbraak bij ICANN, TLD-gegevens ontvreemd - De ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is het slachtoffer geworden van een digitale inbraak. ICANN, verantwoordelijk voor het beheer van toplevel domeinnamen (TLD’s) zoals .com en .org,  stelt dat er bij een hack van het netwerk gebruikersgegevens gestolen zijn. Ook hebben de hackers toegang gekregen tot een aantal systemen van de organisatie. ICANN bevestigde woensdag 17 november de inbraak die eerder deze maand plaatsvond. De digitale inbraak vond plaats via een ... read more ...
 
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Domainendung .versicherung Sinn oder Unsinn? – provision - Was bringt die neue „Branchen-Domain“ wirklich für Versicherer und Vermittler? Am 16. September 2014 startete nach knapp dreijähriger Vorbereitungsphase der allgemeine Marktverkauf der Internet-Domainendung .versicherung. Die neue „generic Top-Level-Domain“ (gTLD) ist damit – zumindest rein technisch – großen nationalen oder thematischen Domainendungen wie .de, .com oder .org gleichgestellt. Einzige Einschränkung gegenüber anderen Adressen: .versicherung-Domains ... read more ...
 
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NameSentry? Adopted by Over 60% of New Top Level Domains Launched - Architelos, Inc., the premier provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, has added Famous Four Media to its expanding roster of NameSentry clients. Famous Four Media will be implementing NameSentry for current and upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .trade .webcam, and .science. Other new gTLDs that have recently adopted NameSentry include, .build, .ceo, .lat, .luxury, and .ooo, to name a few. To date NameSentry has been adopted by more new gTLDs than ... read more ...
 
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‘Nigeria Still Far from Meeting Domain Name Registration Target’ - Mary Uduma, President of NIRA By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the body in charge of the registration of Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain name (ccTLD), otherwise known as '.ng domain name', has said Nigeria is still far from meeting  the  set target of registering 250, 000 domain names in the country. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who gave the information in a telephone interview with THISDAY Newspapers, said NIRA had in 2013, set a target ... read more ...
 
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Owner of Baby.com Wins .Baby For $3.1 Million Dollars. - Johnson Johnson which has owned and advertised  Baby.com for many years, just won the ICANN Last Resort Auction for the new gTLD .Baby for 3,088,888 Google, Minds + Machines, Donuts, Radix and Famous Four lost in the auction and unlike private auctions will not get any share of the winning bid. In the other ICANN  last resort auction the Canadian Real Estate Association beat Afilias for .MLS, paying $3,359,000. Still seems to me that the ICANN auctions are going to less money than the private ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Owner of Baby.com Wins .Baby For $3.1 Million Dollars. - Johnson Johnson which has owned and advertised  Baby.com for many years, just won the ICANN Last Resort Auction for the new gTLD .Baby for 3,088,888 Google, Minds + Machines, Donuts, Radix and Famous Four lost in the auction and unlike private auctions will not get any share of the winning bid. In the other ICANN  last resort auction the Canadian Real Estate Association beat Afilias for .MLS, paying $3,359,000. Still seems to me that the ICANN auctions are going to less money than the private ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Round Up: iWantValium.com; Viagra.Ninja; Minnesota.Life; Landshark.Beer; Playstation.co - A few UDRP/URS case caught my eye over the last day or so. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG the makers of Valium filed a UDRP on iwantvalium.com Doesn’t everyone? The domain name was just registered back in June Pfizer Inc just won two separate UDRP on the domain names ViagraNinja.com and Viagra.Ninja Now that those are great domains. The .com was registered a year ago, however I have no idea of how Pfizer which has a market cap of almost $200 Billion failed to register Viagra.Ninja, a domain they could ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.Club lifting some-more money, valued during $25.4 million - .Club to be valued at $25.4 million after investment. The .Club top level domain name registry is raising more funds, and the latest round will value the company at $25.4 million after the investment closes. .Club previously raised $7.5 million, with about $3.5 million of that in debt. The company is conducting two additional fundraising rounds, both of which are fully subscribed. The first is a raise from existing shareholders that will effectively convert the $3.5 ... read more ...
 
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Union Bank loses cases opposite dispute websites - Former customer registered ten domain names to air grievances about the bank. Union Bank has lost three domain name arbitration cases involving an upset former customer. The bank filed three separate actions covering UnionBank.me, unionbancal.co, unionbank.cc, union-bank.co, mufgunionbankna.com, unionbancalcorp.com, unionbancal.net, unionbancal.org, unionbankna.com and unionbanks.net. The domain names were all registered by William Bookout. At one point, his company ... read more ...
 
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Cuba domain names take off after yesterday’s announcement - It’s interesting to compare the surge in Cuba-related domain registrations following this announcement with the volume of domains purchased when a new TLD enters general availability. 1,500 newly registered .COM / .NET domains containing “Cuba” … That exceeds the total number of domains registered to date for dozens of keyword nTLDs! According to NameStat.org, these TLDs have accumulated only between 1,000 and 1,600 domains: .GENT, .PIZZA, .GIFTS, .FAIL, .ACTOR, .SURF, .CREDIT, ... read more ...
 
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A demeanour behind during November’s NameJet Sales - November for Namejet – as measured by domain auctions that closed above $2,000 – was a slow month. Just one month prior, 12 out of the 66 charted sales surpassed $10k, with the highest attaining $91.8k; but last month only 1 out of 61 sales climbed into the 5 digits. To be fair, the high end of the domain market is always the most erratic. Trends are mainly to be found in the low and mid-value ranges and over a longer period of time. Interestingly, activity ... read more ...
Wed 17th December 2014
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
Would confectionery industry benefit from a .CANDY? -   I have to admit that I’m a bit skeptical of the whole changing .COM into .OTHERTHINGS, like .ORGANIC, .NFL, or .XXX. I mean, yes, it could help us better sort through the world wide web, which is, after all, worldwide, but there’s a deeply rooted part of my soul that has a hard time letting go of the simplicity of .COM.  Crystal Lindell Ya, ya, I know, we’ve always had .GOV, .EDU, and the dated sounding .NET, so adding a few more shouldn’t be such a ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Sued For $50 Million By Russian Millionaire Konstantin Malofeev - According to Courthousenews.com, GoDaddy.com has been sued for $50 million by A Russian millionaire claiming Godaddy defamed him by hosting a number of websites that accuse him of fraud. Konstantin Malofeev sued GoDaddy, Domains by Proxy and John Doe – the anonymous operator of the websites – on Dec. 14 Malofeev claims he is a businessman, politician, and chairman of the board of directors of Marshall Capital Group, one of Russia’s largest equity investment groups. He claims that a number of ... read more ...
 
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.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available LLL/NNN/One Word Domains - .Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The TLD saw volumes of 5 times that of the previous day’s registrations on Black Friday – close to 1,200 names in day. Cyber Monday brought more even more registrations. Some quick facts about .website registrations: Average daily new registrations in ... read more ...
 
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.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available … - .Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The TLD saw volumes of 5 times that of the previous day’s registrations on Black Friday – close to 1,200 names in day. Cyber Monday brought more even more registrations. Some quick facts about .website registrations: Average daily new registrations in ... read more ...
 
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iOS 8: Falsch adressierte E-Mails vermeiden (Tipp) - iPhone und iPad: Falsch adressierte E-Mails vermeiden Oha, das ist ärgerlich: Die interne Firmen-Mail wurde versehentlich an einen völlig Unbeteiligten geschickt, weil sein Name so ähnlich war wie der des eigentlich gemeinten Empfängers. Dagegen ist auch iOS machtlos, aber es kann Ihnen helfen, solche peinlichen Pannen in Zukunft zu vermeiden: Wählen Sie Einstellungen – Mail, Kontakte, Kalender. Tippen Sie im Abschnitt Mail auf Adressen markieren. Geben Sie nun die Mail-Domain Ihrer Firma ... read more ...
 
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The Real Facts About New gTLDs - Many with financial interests in new gTLDs, such as Donuts, have painted a rosy picture of how new gTLDs create greater availability of meaningful domain name options that the global masses have been waiting for. Their message seems to be: FINALLY, there is an alternative to .com in new domain extensions like .guru, .photography, .blackfriday and .tips. But, the reality is that we have always had options other than .com to choose from when registering a domain name. The challenge isn't choice, ... read more ...
 
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Jeannie McPherson - The Real Facts About New gTLDs Many with financial interests in new gTLDs, such as Donuts, have painted a rosy picture of how new gTLDs create greater availability of meaningful domain name options that the global masses have been waiting for. Their message seems to be: FINALLY, there is an alternative to .com in new domain extensions like .guru, .photography, .blackfriday and .tips. But, the reality is that we have always had options other than .com to choose from when registering a domain ... read more ...
 
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John Mueller : Non, les nouvelles extensions n’amélioreront pas … - Après Matt Cutts en 2012, John Mueller enfonce à nouveau le clou (après en avoir déjà parlé au premier semestre) : non, les nouvelles extensions (.paris, .bzh, .store, etc.) ne vont pas vous aider à gagner des places dans les résultats des moteurs de recherche... Après Matt Cutts il y a quelques mois, c'est au tour de John Mueller d'en remettre une couche sur Google+ au sujet des nouvelles extensions (.paris, .bzh, .alsace, .web, .search, etc.) en insistant une nouvelle fois sur le ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Believes They Had A Spear Phishing Attack in November - ICANN is looking into an attack on their systems that took place back in November, they have posted an announcement on their website and have said to stay tuned for further updates by checking back. An email also went out to those using the CZDS: In order to continue using CZDS, please visit http://czds.icann.org and follow the instructions there to request a new password. We suggest that you take appropriate steps to protect any other online accounts for which you might have used the same username ... read more ...