Fri 4th September 2015
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Emazing.nl nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking - Web design firm in Netherlands is a reverse domain name hijacker. Web design firm Emazing B.V., which uses the domain name Emazing.nl, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Emazing.com. Amazingly, Emazing’s lawyers seem to have really shot themselves in the foot: they submitted a supplemental filing that was key to the RDNH finding. The owner of Emazing.com registered the domain name before the complainant had a trademark for Emazing. But Emazing.com ... read more ...
 
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Did Premium 2 Letter Domain Name TN.com Sell? - This morning, the premium 2 letter .com domain name TN.com has transferred out of domain name registrar Fabulous.com to GoDaddy.com. This movement can indicate a domain name has sold. What we know. Back in 2011, whois records showed the domain name was owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. The domain name has been under whois privacy ever since but the domain has been using Mark.com name servers recently, which is common with Vertical Axis, Inc. owned domain names. The domain name was using DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
 
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Domain Movers: Worldwide.com, Shotput.com, Logs.com & More Domains - Domain Movers is unique! Domain Movers is exciting! Domain Movers is fun! Domain Movers presents to you a “behind the scenes” look at what large companies are buying, registering and simply moving domain name wise! These are often early signs of a future advertising campaigns. A new product launch. A better domain name. And so much more! Here are the latest movements we detected, focused mainly on large corporations: Carnival Corporation has purchased the domain name WLCL.com from Vertical Axis. ... read more ...
 
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Here's one source behind a proliferation of Whois marketing - Cheap, fresh whois data is leading to increased spam and telemarketing. I usually keep my iPhone on “do not disturb” mode at night. But not on August 16. My wife was traveling, so I kept it on in case she needed to reach me. At 4:19 in the morning, my phone pinged and woke me up. It wasn’t my wife. It was this text message: The text message I received was from Devan Crow, who owns a Florida business called SkyNet Group LLC. For $500 a quarter (or less for longer term subscriptions), Crow ... read more ...
 
 
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AISE.com during $19.5k and other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. China is back with AISE.com ($19.5k) foremost among expired domain sales at NameJet. These days any LLLL.com attracts bids, whatever the letters; yet this domain ought to be classified as meaningful Pinyin rather than as an acronym or an arbitrary 4-letter string. In Chinese, ài / 愛 means “to love”; and sè / 色 means “color”, “appearance”, or “sex”. Therefore it may be that China likes sex more than AISE, ... read more ...
 
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DomainApps to discharge calm sites, turn only a parking company - Company created to challenge domain parking is now just a domain parking company. It has come full circle. DomainApps, which came to life as WhyPark and an alternative to domain name parking, will now become just a parking company. The company sent an email to customers this morning stating that it will discontinue content sites effective October 1. Instead, DomainApps will “continue to monetize your domains with our top-tier advertising partner, bringing you the highest revenue possible.” In ... read more ...
 
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Paris Hilton; Harry Potter; Playboy; AARP Among 1st To Own a .Sex Domain Name - The new gTLD .Sex went into the first day of the Sunrise on September 1st where trademark holders registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register .Sex domain names. Over 700 .Sex domain names have been registered. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Time Warner and Marriott seemed to register the most .Sex domains to date. With some of the trademarks there are some interesting .sex domains, including Office.sex, JustEat.Sex, Swift.sex; Priceless.Sex; Safari.sex Then there is MTV.sex, which the Network ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Ranks # 1 In .in Domain Name Market Share - GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today announced that it is now number one in .IN domain name market share, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi) .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet, and the leading domain name in India, enabling brands, companies and individuals to establish a distinct Indian identity online. ... read more ...
 
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eBay during 20 and a problem of building a market - Building a marketplace is hard, even in the domain name business. It’s crazy to think that it’s been 20 years since the first auction on eBay (then AuctionWeb). 20 years! So much has happened since then when it comes to the internet. eBay created a market of buyers and sellers, much like the two predominant domain name marketplaces (Sedo and Afternic) did. Here are a couple take-aways from this: 1. Creating a market is hard. A lot of people gripe about paying 20% commissions to Sedo and Afternic. ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Ranks No. 1 In .IN Domain Name Market Share For With 33% Of Registrar Market - http://businesswireindia.com/news/news-details/godaddy-ranks-no-1-in-domain-name-market-share/45089, Godaddy the worlds largest domain name registrar has the highest market share for selling .IN domain names, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi). .IN is India’s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD) on the Internet. The domain name extension .IN, “is seeing significant uptake among individuals and businesses in India and worldwide, with over 1.7 million websites around the ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Registers Several New iSurvey Domain Names - Apple Inc. may have something new to announce sometime soon? Maybe on September 9, 2015 at the Apple event we may hear a new “i” term, iSurvey? Well the above is speculation but it’s backed up by some solid facts! Apple Inc. has registered the domain names: AppleiSurvey.com and AppleiSurveys.com! They continued with protection domain registrations Apple-iSurvey.com, Apple-iSurveys.com and Apple-Surveys.com. The domain names were registered at corporate brand protection domain name registrar ... read more ...
 
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Almost all .science malicious, .cricket rigged, boffins find - Almost every one of the hundreds of thousands of websites in 10 top level domains including all under .review and .zip are malicious, according to research. More than 95 percent of the hundreds of thousands websites in each of ten top level domains (TLDs) including .country, cricket, .science, and .party are flogging spam, malware, or adware. The shocking findings published by security firm Blue Coat ... read more ...
 
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A warning about the “shadiest neighborhoods” on the web - If you wish to keep out of hassle on the internet, you had higher keep away from web sites ending in .zip and .evaluation in addition to a number of others which are bastions of . That’s the discovering of a brand new report from enterprise safety agency . It got here up with the 10 top-level domains (TLDs), the top a part of an internet handle, that have been most related to suspicious web sites. The report discovered that 100 % of the web sites in Blue Coat’s database with the top-level ... read more ...
 
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UDRP Filed on Recently Sold $18,400 Three Letter Domain Name Zic.com - A UDRP (D2015-1566) has been filed to gain control of the 3 letter domain name Zic.com . The URDP was filed by the company SK Lubricants Americas, a subsidiary of SK Innovations on September 2, 2015. The domain name Zic.com was acquired during a Ha.com domain name auction in February 2015 for $18,400 USD. SK Lubricants Americas filed a trademark on December 22, 2003 for the term: Zic and the trademark has an active status for good and services: “Lubricating oil, all purpose spray type lubricants, ... read more ...
 
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Challenges for .brands – Launching Your .brand - This is the sixth in a series of blog posts discussing the strategic and operational challenges faced by .brand TLD owners and the processes involved in getting them ready for use. Previously I discussed how to transition your agreed strategy into an implementation plan, which you can read here. One of the consistent themes of this blog series is that despite similarities across .brand TLDs, no two brands will settle on the exact same strategy and process for moving their TLD to launch. As ... read more ...
 
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Any Squatting on Paypal.me Names ? You Betcha - Mike wrote on Wednesday about Paypal rolling out Paypal.me and your chance to reserve a novelty name that will be associated with your account. It is important to note you can’t change it once you pick it. The Daily Dot covered name squatting taking place and while some celebrity names got taken others got reserved like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Politicians did not get reserved status. From the article: PayPal.Me opened up with basically every possible URL available to any enterprising user. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Security Firm Calls Out Top 10 Most Suspicious New gTLDs: Report - A number of top-level domains are used almost entirely to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing, researchers have revealed. On Wednesday, a team from enterprise security firm Blue Coat unveiled the result of months of research into today's top-level domains (TLDs). Domains are no longer limited to .com, .org and country of origin; instead, website operators can choose from a wide selection including .link, .edu, .mil, .review and .work, among ... read more ...
 
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Blue Coat dévoile les noms de domaines les plus dangereux du Web - Menu Articles de la revue de presse : - l'ensemble [tous | francophone] - par mots clé [tous] - par site [tous] - le tagwall [voir] - Top bi-hebdo de la revue de presse [Voir] S'abonner au fil RSS global de la revue de presse Blue Coat dévoile les noms de domaines les plus dangereux du Web Par Global Security Mag OnlineLe [2015-09-02] à 18:10:48Présentation : Blue Coat Systems, Inc. présente sa nouvelle étude destinée aux consommateurs et aux entreprises, qui dévoile les noms de domaines ... read more ...
 
 
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Security Firm Calls Out Top 10 Most Suspicious New gTLDs: Report - While new TLDs are gaining in registered websites and visits, some are being used in ways they were not intended for. Among the 10 new gTLDs with the most suspicious sites, over 95 percent are rated as suspicious, a report by enterprise security firm Blue Coat finds. The report is not without its own flaws, however. As The Domains points out, the new gTLD that tops the list, .zip, hasn’t even been launched yet. In addition, another domain in the top 10 isn’t a new gTLD at all, it’s a ... read more ...
 
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A warning about the "shadiest neighborhoods" on the web - This is one of the domains that a new report found was most associated with suspicious websites.(Photo: .Science)If you want to stay out of trouble on the web, you had better avoid websites ending in .zip and .review as well as several others that are bastions of suspicious activity.That is the finding of a new report from enterprise security firm Blue Coat. It came up with the 10 top-level domains (TLDs), the end part of a web address, that were most associated with suspicious websites.The report ... read more ...
 
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Looking for .FOREX or .BROKER Domain to Distinguish Your Brand? Coming Soon - Since Google announced that they were creating Alphabet as its holding company and choosing the URL of ABC.XYZ, it has provided a shot in the arm for new top level domain (TLD) names. At the top of all TLDs is .COM, with other country specific TLDs such as .CO, .IO, .ME and .TV also gaining traction. But, even with other TLDs available, .COMs remain the Park Place and Boardwalk of internet real estate, with all the others relegated to the likes of Baltic Avenue. Sector Specific ... read more ...
 
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Apple Inc. Registers .org "News Publisher" Domains 87 Days AFTER Announcing Publicly - On June 8, 2015 Apple Inc. announced a new “News” app that will be included in the fall release of iOS 9, that is powered by Apple News Format™. Fast forward to today, September 2, 2015 and Apple Inc. registers the following domain names with MarkMonitor: AppleNewsFormat.org AppleNewsPublisher.org News-Publisher.org NewsPublisher.org All .org domain names. The domain name AppleNewsFormat.com was registered on the day of the announcement (June 8, 2015), but not by Apple Inc. According to whois ... read more ...