Tue 17th June 2014
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Researchers detect spike in "snowshoe" spam attacks using .club gTLD - June 17, 2014 A rise in hit-and-run spam attacks, also known as “snowshoe” spam attacks, has been detected by researchers at Symantec. Using the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, experts noticed the increase on Thursday, coming specifically from .club domains. In snowshoe spamming, miscreants use multiple IP addresses and generic top-level domains (gTLD) – in this case .club – to perform the attacks and thwart detection by spam filters. The Internet Corporation ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Hit With Another URS On Two .Link Domains - Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names is the subject of a second URS filing over two domain names it registered of Uniregistry strings,  aix.link and db2.link. North Sound Names already successfully defended its first URS case filed against it, on Finn.Link North Sound reportedly registered some 43,000 domain names in extensions owned by Uniregistry with .Link domains being heavily represented. Although the Complainant on the URS filed today is not listed I would not be surprised to see it being ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Waives Off Upfront Fees for New gTLD Vertical Integration Solutions - According to a press release we just received , LogicBoxes announced that it has waived off all upfront fees for its Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs. “New gTLDs have great potential, especially the Geo and Community extensions that provide a unique online namespace for people belonging to that community and region. However, with over 300+ TLDs already launched, these New gTLDs haven’t quite achieved their true potential. ” “One of the main reasons for this is the fact that Traditional ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Waives Off Upfront Fees for New gTLD Vertical Integration Solutions - According to a press release we just received , LogicBoxes announced that it has waived off all upfront fees for its Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs. “New gTLDs have great potential, especially the Geo and Community extensions that provide a unique online namespace for people belonging to that community and region. However, with over 300+ TLDs already launched, these New gTLDs haven’t quite achieved their true potential. ” “One of the main reasons for this is the fact that Traditional ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1MM For The Week - Over the past week, 520 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1MM. 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: bigsale.com at 50,000 USD · Top ccTLD: handybook.co.uk at 12,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: bess.net at 5,000 USD Below is the complete report:             ... read more ...
 
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LogicBoxes Waives Upfront Fees for New gTLD Vertical Integration Solutions - LogicBoxes, the premier technology and consulting company for Domain Registries, Registrars and large Web Hosts, today announced that it has waived off all upfront fees for its Vertical Integration Solution for New gTLDs. New gTLDs have great potential, especially the Geo and Community extensions that provide a unique online namespace for people belonging to that community and region. However, with over 300+ TLDs already launched, these New gTLDs haven't quite achieved their true potential. ... read more ...
 
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Phil Corwin Posts Update To His .XYZ/Netsol Post on ICA Site & His “Mistake in Judgement” - Phil Corwin has just published an update to this post he published the other day on the ICA website entitled ICANN is MIA on XYZ. As we told you on Sunday, some including thedomains.com felt that the portion of Mr. Corwin’s post that seemed to be a personal attack on Mr. Negari was inappropriate and out of line. Mr. Corwin has now addressed this, with a statement posted on the ICA Website in which he  apologize to Mr. Negari entitled “Personal Clarification Regarding .XYZ Article” Here is ... read more ...
 
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.Moe Top-Level Domain Enters Landrush Period - Following its acceptance by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) earlier this spring, starting today, and running for the next month, the new .moe top level domain will be in its "landrush phase." During this early access phase, anyone can apply to register a .moe domain name through an Accredited Registrar. Applications will be processed at the end of the phase. If more than one party applies for the same domain name, the domain will go to a private auction where the ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy Auction Of Premium .Futbol, .Ninja & .Reviews Domains Closes Tomorrow; App.Reviews Over $1K - The Godaddy auction of premium . Futbol, .Ninja and .Reviews domain names closes tomorrow Wednesday June 18th at 5pm PST and several domain names already have multiple bidders Leading domain names in the auction is App.Reviews which has 7 bidders and as of publication has a high bid of $1,050. A single letter domain that will carry a normal renewal price e.ninja has a high bid of $520 Hosting.Reviews has 5 bidders and a high bid of $540 Cloud.Ninja has a high bid of $511 Live.Ninja has an opening ... read more ...
 
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Shares Of Minds + Machines Sink On News Of Its Expensive .Fashion Auction Win - Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced overnight that it acquired the new gTLD .Fashion at a price that exceed almost all the money it received from losing the new gTLD applications for .cricket, .pizza, .restaurant, .coupon and .immo. In essesence according to the company it gave up rights to 5 new gTLD strings for .Fashion and £250,000. Shares of Mind + Machines sank today in trading over 7.5% down to 10.75P in trading today Fred Krueger, Chairman of Minds + Machines, commented: “We ... read more ...
 
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UDRP’s Filed On Verb.com, QIQ.com and AmericanForce.com - Two UDRP’s were just filed against two very good domain names. Moroccanoil Israel Ltd. Verb Hair Products Canada Inc./Verb Products Inc. filed the UDRP against Verb.com Verb.com has been owned since at lease 2002 by a Richard Bloxham. According to Screenshots.com the domain name Verb.com has been parked since at least August 2005. The parked page that I see currently and the one’s viewable on Screenshots appear to only contain links to language  and nothing about hair products. Looks like an ... read more ...
 
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Funny: UDRP Panel Rejects Developer of iFunny.Mobi’s Attempt To Grab iFunny.com - A three member UDRP panel has denied the attempt of Okruzhnost LLC of Penza, Russian Federation, attempt to grab the domain name ifunny.com owned by Six Media Ltd. of Hong Kong, represented by Esquire.com Here are the facts and findings from the three member panel, which consisted of Gabriela Kennedy, Nicholas Weston and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C.: The Complainant is a software company that develops mobile applications and websites. The Complainant launched a website ifunny.mobi and mobile application ... read more ...
 
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Two minute guide to generic top level domains - The liberalisation of the Internet domain name system is well under way, so now might be a good time to revisit what it is all about and how companies can make money from the whole process. For many years the number of generic top level domains (or gTLDs) – the bit in the web address that comes after the final dot – was limited, which was fine, except the names were a bit … well … generic. Let me demonstrate how this can be a problem. I am a Spurs fan (that's not the problem, by the way). If ... read more ...
 
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El proceso de liberalización de los dominios de Internet - Han transcurrido más de 25 años desde que se crearon los primeros nombres de dominio en internet. A partir de entonces,  “Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers” (en adelante, el “ICCAN”) es el organismo responsable de la asignación de las extensiones de dominio de internet y de su funcionamiento estable y seguro.Posteriormente, en el año 2008, el ICCAN, impulsado por el crecimiento exponencial del uso de internet y por las limitaciones existentes para obtener un nombre ... read more ...
 
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Neue Domains und ihr Einfluss auf SEO - Jun 17 2014 • Internet • Keine KommentareDas Internet ist groß, sehr groß – aber wohl nicht groß genug. Aus diesem Grund hat die ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, die oberste Instanz, wenn es um die Vergabe von einmaligen Namen und Adressen im World Wide Web geht, reagiert. Neue Domains, wie zum Beispiel .shop, .web, .gmbh und .berlin sorgen seit Februar diesen Jahres für neuen Platz in der (Internet-) Welt. Doch ist ein guter Domainname gleichbedeutend mit einer ... read more ...
 
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New Internet Domain ".moe" for Anime Lovers, Cosplayers and Hobbyists … – ITAR - TOKYO, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Interlink Co., Ltd., a new Domain Registry Operator, announced on June 17 that it will open the Internet's most unique Top Level Domain (TLD)(1), ".moe", to the public starting Tuesday June 17th. The word "moe" (means a special affinity to fictional characters, people, animals, etc.; pronounced as "moh-ay") is rooted deep in the Japanese Otaku (geek) culture. ".moe" is a New Top Level Domain (TLD) designed to serve as a new online ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic to Acquire Internet.BS In A Deal Worth Up to $7.5 Million - CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquired Internet.BS, a top 30 domain name registrar for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. CentralNic said it will pay $5.2 million when the deal closes, with $2.7 million due in cash and $2.5 million to be paid in the form of 2.1 million new CentralNic shares. An additional $1.8 million payment is deferred. It is to be paid over 12 months and can be adjusted higher or lower depending on the acquisition’s performance. The maximum amount that can be paid is $2.3 ... read more ...
 
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Free Domains Anyone? .Berlin Adds 70K Domains & Tops 116K; .XYZ Adds 27K & Tops 145K - A huge day in the new gTLD program as .Berlin in its first day of offering free domain names,  added some 70,000 domain names, more domains than were registered in the extension in the three months since .Berlin was launched. .Berlin passed .Club to become the 2nd most registered new domain extension (new gTLD). .Berlin which had been hanging around 48,000 registrations for weeks, shot up to 116,638 registered domains .Berlin launched around March 19 and got some 32,000 registrations in its first ... read more ...
 
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Rightside releases Premium Domains during reg price for .Pub - Thousands of domains that would normally carry a premium are being offered at registration fee. Rightside, backer of an increasingly large pool of new TLDs, is trying something different with its upcoming launch of .Pub. The company’s previous new TLD launches have included reserved domains (called Platinum) and premium domains. The premium domains were sold through registrars but at higher prices that most domains. For .Pub, which just entered landrush, Rightside ... read more ...
 
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.Bid/.Trade domain name auction closes with no sales - Auction attracts bidders, but none are willing to pay the reserve prices. A domain name auction on Sedo for registry-reserved .bid and .trade domain names has closed with no sales. The auction included 35 domain names, 10 of which received bids. The top auction was PPC.bid at $1,050, which was below its stated reserve of between $1,000 and $5,000. The nine other domains that received bids all closed below $1,000 but had reserves above $1,000. Personally, I’m a ... read more ...
 
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Over 2,200 purebred for 50th ICANN assembly in London subsequent week - Over 2,200 people have registered for next week’s ICANN meeting. Next week’s ICANN meeting in London is sure to be big. And not just because it’s the big 5-0. The 50th ICANN meeting, which officially kicks off on Sunday, June 22, already has 2,200 registered attendees. I’m one of those 2,200. I haven’t been to an ICANN meeting in a while, and here’s why I picked this next one to attend: 1. It’s in London. It’s a world city that’s easy to get to from ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ 1-ups .Berlin in giveaway domain giveaways - .Berlin more than doubles it registrations overnight. .XYZ calls. Starting yesterday, certain registrars started offering free .Berlin domain names to customers in a promotion that will run through the end of the work week. I posed the question if this promotion would enable .Berlin to overtake .xyz at the top of the top level domain charts. After one day it would seem the answer could be yes. But I forgot to consider another factor: .xyz could rev up its own free ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines pays dearly for .Fashion tip turn domain name - Company essentially swaps five new TLD applications for .fashion. Minds + Machines has paid a significant sum to win a four way auction for the .fashion top level domain name. Although the company did not disclose the actual price, it disclosed this stunning fact: after considering its payoffs from losing .cricket, .pizza, .restaurant, .coupon and immo and its payment for .fashion, plus the refunds it received in withdrawn applications, it netted just £250,000 in ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2014
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Kurds want a country code top-level domain - BasNews (Germany):   Kurdish organizations have sent a request to The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in an attempt to obtain an ccTLD for the Kurdistan Region. Every country has its own code: (.DE) for Germany, (.SE) for Sweden, (.IR) for Iran, etc. However, this code is not unique to countries, and can also be used by stateless nations, like Iraqi Kurdistan. Other unrecognized people including the Catalans, Basques, Bretons and Székelys, have also requested a ... read more ...
 
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Namejet & RightOfTheDot Team Up For .Global Auction Event During ICANN London - Namejet.com just announced it has teamed up with RightoftheDot.com to hold a Online/Live auction during the ICANN London Conference for over 90 premium .Global domain names We will have more on this in the next few days leading up to the auction but basically Namejet.com is going to handle the pre-bidding on the domains before the live auction, which will be held in London during the ICANN conference. Since Namejet.com has not sent this out its customers I wanted to post it here. As a matter of disclosure ... read more ...