First Rakuten forsaken Buy.com, now it skeleton to stop Play.com -
They are not selling off Buy.Com, they still point to Rakuten.
I know this sounds strange, but if I had to put a number on it, I’d say at least 75% of the public still doesn’t know how to enter a domain name into a browser.
I do a lot of technical support over the phone. Many of those calls start with me asking people to type something like http://www.TeamViewer.Com into the browser.
1. About 20% of the time, they would ask me what a browser is… Some are brave enough to say “Is ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2014
Loose Lips Sink Ships: are new troops domain names dangerous? -
In this post, Joseph Peterson questions if new .navy, .army and .airforce domain names could be a security issue for the U.S. military.
This little article of mine may make me some enemies at Rightside, the registry behind the recently released TLDs .ARMY, .AIRFORCE, and .NAVY. However, I have no ax to grind. Far from being opposed to the new TLD initiative per se, I personally invest in nTLD domains on occasion; and I see strong commercial potential in some of Rightside’s ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million -
Sedo.com Released a sale news and over a past week, 484 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 51% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.
Highlights of open sales are:
· Top .coms: localgenius.com during 14,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: slv.fr during 5,000 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: designs.net during 16,800 USD
Via: thedomains.com
AusRegistry Issues the First in a Series of Quarterly Reports Analyzing … -
The
report – titled “Behind
the Dot, The State of the .au Domain”
– offers statistical insights that
have never before been released to
the public. The highlights are also
available in ... read more ...
Claim Your .REALTOR Domain on October 23 -
The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is pleased to announce that on October 23, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, NAR members can claim their .REALTOR top-level domain. With a .REALTOR domain, members can instantly communicate to consumers their status as a REALTOR® in their website address, which strengthens their connection to the REALTOR® brand and identifies them as a trusted source for real estate information. NAR will provide one free .REALTOR domain for one year to the first 500,000 ... read more ...
Bridging the digital divide -
Today, having a Web presence is seen as a basic need for not only businesses, but individuals as well. But people need to think really hard about their website’s URL (uniform resource locator also known as domain name), especially when they are just starting up. Much of the Internet’s extraordinary growth belongs to users in developing economies, such as Asia, looking to grow their Internet economy — a sector Boston Consulting Group recently reported to be growing at 15 to 25 per ... read more ...
Afilias Announces Plan to Raise $100 Million via London AIM Exchange -
Afilias, headquartered in Dublin, is set to float on AIM with new shares issued by the company expected to raise approximately $100m. Hal Lubsen, Chief Executive Officer of Afilias says: "Today's announcement is an important step in the next phase of our growth, as we look to be a key player in the new programme of TLDs, and make selective acquisitions to increase the breadth and depth of our services and reach."
From the announcement:
"Afilias today announces its intention to apply ... read more ...
.Vet, .Army, .Navy & .Airforce Launching Tomorrow Have a Total Of Less Than 250 Domains - In addition to .Healthcare, four other new gTLD’s are launching tomorrow into General Availability; three are focused on the military, .Army, .Navy .Airforce then there is .Vet which could mean Veterans as in those who served in the military or Veterinarians those doctors who treat animals
Thought the Sunrise period for trademark holders and the five day Early Access Program for those who paid an additional fee to register a domain ahead of GA here are the total number of registrations as of ... read more ...
Afilias: Joins Minds + Machines & Centralnic To London AIM Exchange To Raise … - Afilias today announces its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) to raise $100 Million dollars.
“The $100 million will be used to:
· Acquire contested nTLDs in the upcoming auctions;
· Fund attractive acquisition opportunities including existing TLD assets and operating businesses in the Registry Operator and Registry Service Provider areas; and
· ... read more ...
Afilias: Joins Minds + Machines & Centralnic To London AIM Exchange To Raise $100 Million - Afilias today announces its intention to apply for admission of its issued and to be issued Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”) to raise $100 Million dollars.
“The $100 million will be used to:
· Acquire contested nTLDs in the upcoming auctions;
· Fund attractive acquisition opportunities including existing TLD assets and operating businesses in the Registry Operator and Registry Service Provider areas; and
· ... read more ...
Domini Internet, Desimio: "Ecco come le imprese possono tutelare il brand" -
Nel 2012, l'Icann (l'ente no profit che coordina dal 1998 il sistema dei nomi a dominio) ha iniziato il processo di liberalizzazione dei domini di primo livello (i cosiddetti top level domain o gTLD: l’ultima parte degli indirizzi internet, ad esempio i noti .com o .net), rendendo possibile registrare come gTLD anche parole di uso comune, marchi o segni.
In poco meno di due anni, le richieste di registrazione per nuovi top level domain sono già più di 1900, e la registrazione di nomi ... read more ...
Chinese Government Launches Attack Against iCloud Users - According to Ars Technica it seems that China is running a man-in-the-middle attack on iCloud users. They have a screenshot of this on their website, this was discovered by a group called GreatFire.org.
From the article:
GreatFire.org, a group that monitors censorship by the Chinese government’s national firewall system (often referred to as the “Great Firewall”), reports that China is using the system as part of a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on users of Apple’s iCloud service within ... read more ...
Google Trying New Ways to Stifle Piracy -
Google is looking to fight piracy with links to legitimate websites when someone searches for an illegal site, now that is if they want to pay to play. They are also playing around with the auto-complete, they will demote the predictions that link to illegal sites.
Stephanie Mlot covered the story for PC Mag
In an effort to fight piracy, Google is testing new ad and search-result formats to help users find legitimate sources of media.
In addition to removing sites that traffic in pirated content ... read more ...
Shining on Major News: Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), DR Horton Inc … -
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME), announced on 15 October it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME)’s stock on 20 October traded at beginning with a price of $9.45 and when day-trade ended the stock finally decreased -0.11% to end at $9.50. Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME)’s showed weekly performance of 4.40%.
DR Horton Inc. (NYSE:DHI) will release financial results for its ... read more ...
Paris-CDG : Air France évalue un nouveau tracteur – Air -
La compagnie aérienne Air France a signé un protocole d’accord portant sur l’évaluation du nouveau système Taxibot, afin d’en évaluer l’impact sur la tractation des avions gros-porteurs à l’aéroport de Paris-Charles de Gaulle.
Dans son communiqué du 20 octobre 2014, la compagnie nationale française annonce vouloir étudier l’impact de ce système sur le flux de tractation de gros porteurs, ainsi que les avantages du Taxibot du point de vue écologique – réduction substantielle ... read more ...
Afilias set for €78m AIM float -
The technology company said the float would enable it to pursue its growth strategy, increase its corporate profile with existing and new customers, assist in incentivising and retaining key management and employees, create a liquid market in the ordinary shares for shareholders and provide the selling shareholders with a partial realisation of their investment in the company.
The money raised from the float, which will comprise an offer of new and existing ordinary ... read more ...
Air France KLM va tester un ‘Taxibot’ à Roissy -
(Boursier.com) — Air France a signé un protocole d'accord en vue d'évaluer le nouveau système Taxibot, développé par Israël Aerospace Industries et le Groupe TLD. Ce véhicule semi-robotique, sous la conduite d'un pilote, est conçu pour le tractage des avions de la porte d'embarquement à la piste et vice-versa. Son utilisation permet de réduire significativement la consommation de carburant et d'offrir à Air France un avantage économique décisif, tout en réduisant les émissions ... read more ...
Air France KLM : va tester un Taxibot à Roissy -
Air France a signé un protocole d'accord en vue d'évaluer le nouveau système Taxibot, développé par Israël Aerospace Industries et le Groupe TLD. Ce véhicule semi-robotique, sous la conduite d'un pilote, est conçu pour le tractage des avions de la porte d'embarquement à la piste et vice-versa. "Son utilisation permet de réduire significativement la consommation de carburant et d'offrir à Air France un avantage économique décisif, tout ... read more ...
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ICANN slashes new TLD forecast, though is it enough? -
ICANN is forecasting 15 million new TLD registrations during the current fiscal year.
ICANN has slashed the number of new top level domain name registrations it expects during this fiscal year for budgeting purposes, but is its picture still too rosy?
That’s a question that members of the Registrar Stakeholders group asked ICANN’s board last week in Los Angeles.
In May, ICANN set a draft proposed budget for the 2015 fiscal year, which runs from this July to June ... read more ...
ICANN struggles to kick relate cover after .Gay decision -
Many responses to .gay community application decision are oversimplifying what happened…and getting it wrong.
In headlines and tweets, it’s pretty easy to knock ICANN for a recent decision not granting .gay applicant dotgay llc community status for the domain name.
The reality, for anyone who takes the time to understand it, is that ICANN didn’t determine anything about whether there’s a gay community. Nor did it (or anyone) block dotgay llc from using ... read more ...
Paradise.com, Holiday.com and Iraq.com strike auction retard subsequent month -
Valuable domain names go up for sale next month.
For a company I hadn’t heard of before it announced it was auctioning Holiday.com a couple months ago, Breathe Luxury has assembled an impressive list of domain names for its auction next month.
The company will auction off dozens of domain names in conjunction with the World Travel Market conference in London November 5. Among the domain names for sale:
Holiday.com
Paradise.com
Journey.com
Iraq.com
Kuwait.com
Doha.com
Arab.com
GolfCourses.com
NAS.com
Most ... read more ...
AnnualCreditReport.com goes after a large typosquatter -
Company behind government-mandated free annual credit report site demands control of 227 typos.
Central Source, a company created by the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus, has filed an in rem lawsuit against 227 typos of its AnnualCreditReport.com domain name.
This is the sixth cybersquatting lawsuit the company has filed this year to crack down on people typosquatting its domain name.
A test of the domain names shows that most use Moniker forwarding to land ... read more ...
Afilias skeleton to lift $100 million, warchest will assistance in new tip turn domain auctions -
Afilias will float its shares on the AIM next month, and use proceeds in part to fund upcoming new TLD auctions.
Domain name registry Afilias announced today that it intends to trade on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, raising $100 million.
In doing so, Afilias will join fellow registries Minds + Machines and CentralNic on AIM.
Afilias says its registry operations are second only to Verisign in size. It supports more than 20 million domain names; 6.6 million directly ... read more ...