Phishing Campaigns Harder to Mitigate -
APWG Says Top-Level Domains Fuel Spoofed Websites
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Thu 11th June 2015
Baotou.com sells for $62,000 and other lapsed domain name sales - A whopper of a sale at NameJet, as Joseph Peterson reports.
This week it’s no contest. Between the top expired auction at NameJet and its runner up there yawns a chasm – a 7:1 ratio. At $9k, GameStars.com would be an impressive sale … but for the fact that China claimed its own Baotou.com for a staggering $61.8k. If you’re like me, then you’ve probably never heard of this industrial city in inner Mongolia. But it makes our smart phones and tablets possible. You see, China holds 95% of ... read more ...
Registries team up to launch three car-related new gTLDs -
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a focus routine for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) in Jan 2012. The new gTLD programme will outcome in an rare enlargement of a Domain Name System. At a time of writing, over 630 new gTLDs have been substituted and approximately 400 have been launched.
However, while a handful of new gTLDs…
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Overstock bought three domain names and three social media handles for 150 bitcoins, in December 2014, which at the time were valued at $50,000 ($380 per BTC) from Anonymous Media LLC. which is a/k/a Dotted.in
Overstock bought the domain names O.ly, O.vu and O.cr as well as the social networking handles of twitter.com/O; vimeo.com/O and O.tumblr.com for 150 Bitcoins.
Bitcoin is presently trading down around 40% from where it was in December 2014 at $233 down ... read more ...
Donuts starts releasing name collision domains - First batch of domains is now available for registration.
Donuts has begun releasing domain names that were originally held back due to name collision concerns.
The first set of domain names, all related to photography, became available yesterday. They are currently running through Early Access, which means they are going through a sort of Dutch auction for seven days. Next Wednesday the domains will become available at regular prices. (About 2% of domains have premium prices attached to them.)
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Donuts Clears 1.369 Million Reserved Domain Names for Registration - Copyright 2015 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2015-06-11
BELLEVUE, Wash., June 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Beginning this week, Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), will release for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names. The company will make these names available in batches each week between June and September.
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eUKhost??? Celebrates Anniversary of UK Domain with 1 Pound Domains -
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One of the UK's largest web hosting companies, eUKhost???, is pleased to be celebrating the first anniversary of the .UK ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain).
June 10, 2015 --
LEEDS, England, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Launched on 10th June 2014, the introduction of the .uk domain marked the first time that consumers and businesses were able ... read more ...
Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit - Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, “Mobile is growing faster than all other ad formats.”
From the article:
Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats in the US, as advertisers begin allocating dollars to catch the eyes of a growing class of “mobile-first” users.
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Salesforce registers over 100 subdomain typos - Salesforce registers .com domains corresponding to each of its instances.
When you log in to Salesforce.com, you land on an instance, which is a subdomain of salesforce.com. As explained here, if you arrive from North America, your browser might load na1.salesforce.com.
Other subdomains include AP# for Asia Pacific, EU# for Europe and CS# for the sandbox environment.
You can see a full list of the instances and corresponding subdomain identifiers here.
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Irish Businesses Will Soon Be Able to register dual minute .ie domains - The IEDR is the registry for .ie Internet domain names and maintains the database of .ie registered domain names.Today they announced that soon Irish businesses will be able to register two letter .ie for the first time.
From their blog:
Irish businesses will shortly be able to register two-letter .ie domain names for the first time, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) announced today.
The move will allow for up to 676 possible two-letter domain name combinations, including hp.ie, pc.ie, hr.ie and aa.ie, ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2015
The .REALTOR Domain: Why It Really Does Matter -
Last month at the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings Trade Expo, NAR made the .REALTOR domain available to local and state REALTOR® associations as well as brokerages in the U.S. and Canada. This move followed the domain’s launch to NAR members this past October. Before the year is out, NAR will up the ante even further by rolling out the .realestate domain to REALTOR® and broker members.
The introduction of these top-level domains (TLD) is exciting news for real estate professionals, ... read more ...
Namejet Revises Its May Sales Report To $600K - Namejet.com just revised its May sales which they previously reported to be around $355,000 for all sales of $2,000 or more that closed in May 2015.
Today we received a new report from Namejet.com which reported almost $600,000 in sales.
“In all 97 domains sold at $2000 and above for a total of $593,760 according to the revised report we received today.
Here is the new May Report:
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Argentina, Brasil y México en el Top 20 de países originarios de spam -
En enero de 2014 empezó el programa New gTLD de registro de nuevos dominios de nivel superior, destinados a determinadas comunidades y tipos de organización (.science o .work). La principal ventaja de este programa es que se puede escoger un dominio según el tipo de actividad o la temática del sitio web. Las nuevas oportunidades que el programa New gTLD ofrece a estos negocios tuvieron gran aceptación en Internet y los spammers y los ciberdelincuentes no podían dejar pasar esta oportunidad, ... read more ...
8 Things to Look for in a Registrar Automation Platform -
In today's world, domain name registrars play a very important role in the functioning of the domain name ecosystem. This is in stark contrast from the Registry-dominated industry most of us have been used to seeing over the past decade. After the introduction of New gTLDs, Registrars have been elevated to a strategic and important pedestal because they're the first contact point to end customers of domain names.
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Verisign Announces #InternetOfficial Month 3 Winners & Upcoming Grand Prize - Verisign has announced the winners of the #InternetOfficial contest for month 3.
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delectablegarden.com
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BridesWithABudget.com
Congratulations to the last 5 #InternetOffical winners!
The Grand Prize round will launch on Friday, June 12 and end on Saturday, June 27th.
Staring June 12th you can vote for the .COM that you think should be the $30,000 #InternetOfficial Grand Prize winner along with the Judges of the contest ... read more ...
Gmeil.com 11 Year aged Typo For Gmail.com Sells At Auction For $3,255 - The domain name Gmeil.com, which is a pretty clear typo for gmail.com, just sold in a domain drop auction for $3,255
The domain name dropped on June 7th and was caught by the domain catcher dropcatch.com
The domain name has an original registration date of 2004, so Google had over a decade to go and get the domain through a UDRP.
According to Screenshots.com the domain has been parked since at least 2005.
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LPC-TV firm M7 seeks 500 mln euro loan for shareholder dividend -
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Wednesday.The dividend is the third to be taken by shareholders in the
past two years and brings the total payout during that time to
555 million euros, according to Thomson Reuters LPC data.Deutsche Bank is leading the deal, alongside bookrunner BNP
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Mit Taxi-Domains können sich Firmen mit Taxi-Angeboten besser im Internet präsentieren
(Initiative Mittelstand) Durch Firmen wie Uber ist das Geschäftsmodell "Taxi" in eine neue Diskussion geraten. Die bestehenden Taxi-Unternehmen verweisen mit Recht auf die Qualität der Leistung, während Uber mit dem Preis argumentiert. ... read more ...
Argentina, México y Brasil liderizan envío de “spam” o correo basura en la región -
Los términos correo basura o “spam” hacen referencia a los mensajes no solicitados, no deseados o con remitente no conocido, habitualmente de tipo publicitario, y generalmente enviados en grandes o masivas cantidades, que perjudican de alguna o varias maneras al receptor.
La palabra en inglés, según Wikipedia, proviene de la segunda guerra mundial, cuando los familiares de los soldados en guerra les enviaban comida enlatada; ... read more ...
(Some of) May's tip NameJet sales - Joseph Peterson takes a look back at the past month on NameJet.
Each month, NameJet disseminates its list of domain auctions that closed above $2,000, and various domain blogs publish that list basically as is. Personally, I’ve tried to dig a bit deeper, grouping sold domains by type and providing month-to-month statistics on overall market-place performance. Unfortunately, that approach is too time consuming; so I’m reverting to a simpler list format.
That said, I like to chew data before swallowing. ... read more ...
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Verisign Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks (VRSN) -
Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) was downgraded by Zacks from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday.
According to Zacks, “Internet infrastructure assurance and domain registry services provider VeriSign reported strong first-quarter 2015 results with both earnings and revenues growing year over year. We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost ... read more ...
Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME) Reports Form 4 Insider Buying : Robert J Majteles … -
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