Tue 1st July 2014
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Microsoft Seizes 22 Domains Of No­-IP Based Off Of SubDomain Usage & Millions Of Uses Effected - No­-IP a DNS service company told its customers on its company blog yesterday, that Microsoft has gotten a federal court order seizing 22 of its domain names based on the activity of users on some of the subdomains. According to arstechnica.com, “Millions of legitimate servers that rely on dynamic domain name services from No-IP.com suffered outages on Monday after Microsoft seized 22 domain names it said were being abused in malware-related crimes against Windows users.” “In a complaint Microsoft ... read more ...
 
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The Spamhaus Project Spamhaus.org, Files UDRP On Spamhaus.com -             The Spamhaus Project, Ltd which is the go to source for many to identify and track spammers  just filed a UDRP for the domain, Spamhaus.com The Spamhaus Project, Ltd operates under the URL Spamhous.org The domain name Spamhaus.com is owned by Ondova Limited. You might recall that Ondova Limited is the company which Jeff Baron owns or owned who has been in litigation for many years now over the control and disposition of the company assets, including the bankruptcy court ordered ... read more ...
 
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.berlin, .ruhr & Co: Nutzungskonzepte für neue Top Level Domains gesucht - Anfang 2014 hat die Internetverwaltung ICANN zahlreiche neue Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) wie .berlin oder .ruhr freigeschaltet. Weitere werden folgen, damit ändert sich der Adressraum im Internet grundlegend. Eine Halbjahresbilanz. Seit Anfang des Jahres gibt es die ersten neuen Top-Level-Domains (TLD). Die Internetverwaltung ICANN hat nach zähem Ringen die ersten Adressen in die Root-Zone eingetragen. Insgesamt soll es etwa 1300 neue TLDs geben, von denen allerdings nur knapp ... read more ...
 
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You Tube Around The World - Wonder of Tech posted an interesting look at You Tube around the world. YouTube is the third most popular site in the world, including everything from TED Talks that educate to stupid human tricks that make you wonder about the future of civilization. But did you know how different YouTube is in countries across the globe? This infographic illustrates the popularity of YouTube in various countries. While you might assume that the US, home of YouTube, would be the source of most of the traffic to ... read more ...
 
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Petrobras inicia teste na área de Iara - A Petrobras informou que em 21 de junho teve incio o Teste de Longa Durao (TLD) na rea de avaliao conhecida como Iara, no bloco BM-S-11, a cerca de 300 km da costa e em lmina d'gua de aproximadamente 2.200m. O Teste de Longa Durao faz parte do Programa de Avaliao da Descoberta, aprovado pela Agncia Nacional de Petrleo, Gs Natural e Biocombustveis (ANP).Segundo comunicado ao mercado, o teste est sendo realizado no poo 3-BRSA-1132-RJS (RJS-706), na rea oeste do Plano de Avaliao de Iara, utilizando ... read more ...
 
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North Carolina association guilty of Reverse domain name hijacking - Company claims rights dating to 2010 and domain name was registered in 2002. But… Personal Communication Systems, Inc of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against the owner of HealthWave.com. Healthwave is the name of an automated medical appointment reminder system that Personal Communication Systems sells. It has a trademark for Healthwave, but the earliest claimed use dates to 2010. ... read more ...
 
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Last week’s and this week’s new TLD launches: .Nagoya, .Fish and more - A handful of new TLDs are launching during this holiday week. I try to write a post each week about upcoming new TLD launches, but didn’t get around to it last week. So this week I’m going to rewind and also look at the week ahead. Last week on Monday GMO launched .Nagoya. Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. As of today, the domain has 1,876 domains in the zone file. Last week on Tuesday .ink launched. I was at the launch party in London. ... read more ...
 
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What domain names L’Oreal and others bought - L’Oreal among companies buying domain names at Sedo. I’m behind on end user sales because I was busy at the ICANN conference in London last week. Here are the sales that Sedo sent out last week. View previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domain names on Sedo? Read this report to learn best practices. MyLifebox.com $27,500 – U Lived It, Inc., which I believe offers a system for recording important moments in your life. Mi.co.id $60,000 – I’m a ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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France Should Put A Cork In It About New Wine Web Domains - Wine and governing the Internet do not mix. Last week, France expressed its vehement opposition to the creation of new “.wine” and “.vin” web domains, threatening to derail important Internet policy discussions as well as U.S.-EU trade talks, if it does not get its way. France would be wise to change course before it plays into the hands of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries that seek to cripple the free and open Internet. France directed its diatribe ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Launches Mobile Payment System “Get Paid” - Go Daddy launched Get Paid today a new mobile payment service that partners with Paypal, Stripe and Dwolla. Tech Crunch covered the launch. These types of products are the ever continuing push to focus on small business and become a player in areas where Go Daddy did not compete prior to Blake Irving becoming CEO. From the article: As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web services company is adding on more features that will help it make more profitable revenues from its 12 ... read more ...
 
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.BAR Domain Name Celebrates the City of Bar, Montenegro, with $100000 … - MEXICO CITY — In celebration of the launch of new generic top level domain (gTLD) “.BAR,” civic leaders from the nations of Montenegro and Mexico celebrated at an event in the coastal city Bar, Montenegro, last week as Punto 2012 presented the first of an annual $10,000 donation to the Meksiko school that will net $100,000 by 2024.Although the .BAR domain, released also with the .REST domain for restaurants, was released specifically for bars ... read more ...
 
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The Bitcoin Domain Name Boom - Bitcoin Domains in the Spotlight Coin Desk did a piece on the boom in Bitcoin related domain names, Ron Jackson was quoted in the story. The story covers BTCS.com as well as BitcoinWallet.com which was sold for $250,000 by Niko Younts. Niko talks in the article about prices rising for Bitcoin related domain names. BTCS.com apparently was purchased for $12,250. From the article: Bitcoin isn’t the only digital asset changing hands for lots of money these days. The cryptocurrency has spurred a rising ... read more ...
 
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Google, the latest gTLD registrar, attempts to revive interest in the named Web - The Web namespace was alive and well at last week's Google I/O conference in San Francisco, where the company worked to drum up interest among attendees in adopting domain names in its forthcoming address space just because they can. "Of the almost 460,000 four-letter .com domain names that are possible, there are none that are available," stated Ben Fried, Google's chief information officer, during a Google I/O session. When ICANN created some 15 new TLDs some years back, Fried argued, ... read more ...
 
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Why Is Neustar Allowing Nicaragua To Use A .US Doman for Their Offical Visitor Site? - I saw a full page ad in a travel magazine a few weeks ago for the website VisitNicaragua.us. It was a very nice full color ad which promoted the country as a great tourist destination. The domain name is registered to the Nicaraguan Tourism Board and whose registered address on the whois records is in Nicaragua My first thought that it is stupid domain for the official travel site of a country to use domain name in  the ccTLD of other country. After all .US is the ccTLD for the United States and ... read more ...
 
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Igloo to marketplace 300k+ DomainSponsor domain names - Domain name portfolio acquired by Rook Media will be marketed by Igloo. When Rook Media acquired DomainSponsor earlier this year, it also acquired Oversee.net’s large portfolio of domain names. Domain brokerage Igloo will begin marketing many of these domain names shortly, Igloo and Rook announced today. While not all domain names will be offered for sale, over 300,000 will be offered through Igloo’s brokers and a new online marketplace. Oversee.net once owned ... read more ...
 
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Spy on recently backordered domain names with new service - SnoopNames monitors last-minute domain name backorders. A new service called SnoopNames claims to enable you to spy on other peoples’ backorders in order to backorder potentially valuable domain names. The site monitors various expired domain sites to spot initial backorders placed on domains in the last 24 hours before the cut off. The idea is to let the “crowd” help you find domain names worth backordering. Of course, anyone who waits until the last day to ... read more ...
 
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.London ads speckled in London final week - Here are some ads for the .London domain name spotted in London during the ICANN conference. I spent last week in London at the ICANN meeting. This was interesting timing because the city is gearing up for the launch of .London, which should prove to be a strong new TLD. The open nature of the domain gives it a wider buying audience than .nyc (assuming .nyc is tough on nexus). As a geo domain, it will get a lot of local press. I think it’s possible that this domain ... read more ...
 
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About those .io domain names… - Few tech startups understand the origins of their clever domain names. David Meyer of Gigaom published a story this morning titled “The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal.” The story explains the country code top level domain name nature of .io and the history of its people. Technically, .io is for British Indian Ocean Territory, and the money flows to the British government. The article is likely to be ... read more ...
Sun 29th June 2014
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One Tiny Country Gets Some Exposure from One Large Movie Franchise - The Pitcairn Islands are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The population is 56, yes 56. It is safe to say that most have no idea that the Pitcairn Islands have their own country code, and even fewer would know what two letters represent this tiny nation. The country code is .PN. Pitcairn is getting the greatest piece of marketing they could ever hope for with the release of a new Hunger Games trailer. The blockbuster book and movie franchise released a trailer on June ... read more ...
 
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California Governor Signs Into Law The Use of Alternative Currencies Such as Bitcoin - We wrote a couple days ago about an alternative currency bill that was off to Governor Jerry Brown of California for his signature. Governor Brown has signed it into law. NewsBtc.com reported” We’ve been discussing a bill that’s been making its rounds through the legal system in California, and as of this weekend, it’s been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown just days after the news that lawmakers in the Golden State had passed it. That bill [also referred to as AB-129]– as we’ve ... read more ...
 
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Domainers Choice Award Winners - The Domainers Choice Awards announced their winners on Saturday at DBR Fun Fest, Kevin McKim from NameInnovations live tweeted the winners. TheDomains.com was nominated for best publication, we congratulate Ron Jackson for winning that award, Ron has always been number one in my book so I am very glad to see him win the award. Ron is off for an extended vacation in celebration of his 30th Wedding anniversary. Kudos to Donna Mahony for all the hard word and effort she put into this award ceremony, ... read more ...
Sat 28th June 2014
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Sands Files Lawsuit Against 35 Websites/Domains Including 368.COM, 8227.COM & 9770.COM, -             Las Vegas Sands Corp. (Sands) filed a federal lawsuit on Friday in the United States District Court for the District Of Nevada against the owners of 35 websites/domain names including 368.COM, 8227.COM and 9770.COM. The suit alleges that the unknown registrants of thirty-five Internet domain names who are using Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s world famous “Sands” trademark, “Jinsha” Chinese characters ( 金沙, meaning roughly, “golden sand” and which is the Chinese equivalent ... read more ...
 
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Since Mi.com sold for $3.6 million, Mark Monitor has been scooping up other Mi … - Back in April, Chinese mobile device maker Xiaomi purchased Mi.com for $3.6 million, some reporters noted that the MI made perfect sense for the company as Mi can work as an acronym for Mobile Internet. Since that acquisition it seems that brand protection specialist Mark Monitor has been out scooping up Mi domains in other country codes. Mi.co.uk was reported sold on DN Journal for $14,000. The domain was reported sold by DomainNameSales.com. This domain was reported sold before the Mi.com sale, ... read more ...
 
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Since Mi.com sole for $3.6 million, Mark Monitor has been scooping adult other Mi.cctld domains - Back in April, Chinese mobile device maker Xiaomi purchased Mi.com for $3.6 million, some reporters noted that the MI made perfect sense for the company as Mi can work as an acronym for Mobile Internet. Since that acquisition it seems that brand protection specialist Mark Monitor has been out scooping up Mi domains in other country codes. Mi.co.uk was reported sold on DN Journal for $14,000. The domain was reported sold by DomainNameSales.com. This domain was reported sold before the Mi.com sale, ... read more ...
Fri 27th June 2014
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Terror victims’ families seek to seize Iranian Web domains - (JNS.org) Family members of U.S. victims of Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks are seeking to seize all "top-level domain" (TLD) names provided by the U.S. to Iran.The domains included the .ir TLD, the ایران TLD, and all Internet Protocol (IP) addresses being utilized by the Iranian government and its agencies. The families served court papers to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, which manages the World ... read more ...