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Mon 8th February 2016
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Changing Your Website's Domain Name – DNW Podcast #70 - Here’s how one company switched its domain name. Changing your website’s domain name is scary. How will everyone find your website? What will happen to your Google search rankings? On today’s episode, we talk to someone who has successfully made this change, Jeff Gapinksi. Jeff’s company Huemor switched from a .com domain to Huemor.rocks. Even if you aren’t considering moving to a new TLD, what Jeff has to say still applies to any company moving from one domain name to another. Learn why ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2016
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BRS Media’s dotFM Releases Ranking of Top .FM Sites and Brands, .FM Top 100 Hits of 2015 - SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BRS Media, a diverse and growing media e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive media companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, today announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, has released the year-end ranking of the Top 100 Hits of 2015, the year's top .FM sites and brands. dotFM’s year end top 100 ranking, “.FM Top 100 Hits of 2015” lists the top sites and ... read more ...
Mon 25th January 2016
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Buying and Selling Websites with Rick Latona – DNW Podcast #68 - Make money by buying or selling websites. We buy and sell domain names — but what about developed websites? Rick Latona’s brokerage Latonas.com specializes in established websites and is very successful at connecting buyers and sellers. Last year Latonas.com handled 13 sales over $1 million, and already has $3 million in sales this month. Rick discusses what makes a site valuable, how to value it, and other considerations when you buy or sell an existing website. Also: A China update, Domaining ... read more ...
Fri 18th December 2015
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Neustar’s Career Site Launched Under Its Own Branded TLD: ‘careers.neustar’ - We're proud to announce that Neustar's careers webpage has been re-launched as a stand-alone website: careers.neustar Yep, that's the complete address — thanks to the use of our very own top-level domain (TLD), .neustar. It's not only simple and easy to remember, but also shows that by using a ".brand" domain strategy to connect with a target audience, we're drinking our own Kool-Aid. As the world's leading company in launching and operating TLDs, every day we're seeing more and more ... read more ...
 
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‘.feedback’ and ‘.sucks’ on criticism sites and trademark owners’ concerns … - Tim Lince In the trademark world, the high sunrise fees charged by the registries behind the ‘.sucks’ and ‘.feedback’ gTLDs have been one of the talking points of 2015. While trademark owners lament the potentially budget-busting annual registration fees being charged in sunrise, the registries themselves stress value for money and the desire ... read more ...
Sat 12th December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
CSC's Nov New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month - Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more registrations) increased from October when there were 53 .brand new gTLD’s with five or more registrations to 75 in November, representing a 42% increase. According to the report there are now 6,654 new gTLD domain names in the Alexa top 1,000,000 up from 5,340 in October, ... read more ...
Fri 11th December 2015
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Google files censure to take down Adsense click rascal site - Site purported to offer “no risk” way to increase Google Adsense revenue. Google has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of the site AdsenseClickers.com in order to take over the domain name. [Update 1/11/16: Google won the case.] Until recently, the website at AdsenseClickers.com offered a service to help people boost their Google Adsense pay-per-click revenue. The service promised to send only real, natural traffic and promised “zero risk” to customers, but I wouldn’t believe ... read more ...
Thu 3rd December 2015
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Mobile phone association Digicel fails to take down "sucks" site - Cybersquatting complaint against gripe site fails. The non-commercial gripe site at DigicelSucks.com.Mobile phone company Digicel, which is based in Jamaica, has failed to take down the gripe site DigicelSucks.com through a cybersquatting complaint. The site consists of commentary abut the mobile carrier along with aggregated tweets of people bashing Digicel. Digicel was quick to file a UDRP cybersquatting complaint against the domain name. DigicelSucks.com was registered on October 12 of this year, ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2015
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3 Letter .Com hits new auction site during $10 with no reserve - Greg Ricks is betting a valuable domain on getting attention for his own auctions. Domain name investor Greg Ricks has added auctions to his Perfect Name site, and he’s putting up a 3 letter .com domain name at no reserve to draw attention to it. DXC.com is currently in an auction on Perfect Name with a starting bid of $10. Ricks has already sold the domain name 447.net for $5,150 on the platform. Now he’s upping the game. I asked Ricks why he’s using his own auction platform rather than one ... read more ...
Wed 18th November 2015
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Sony Uses Brand TLD ‘.sony’ for Bond Game Site - Sony is using it's newly secured brand Top-Level Domain, '.sony' for a game site as part of the promotion for its latest Bond movie. Lori Anne Wardi of Neustar writes: "Spectre, the latest James Bond film and the #1 movie worldwide, is drawing fans on www.assistmoneypenny.sony, where they can play an interactive game to help Miss Moneypenny track down evil villains. Powered by Google Maps and Street View, the mobile-first game is a slick digital flourish on a movie franchise launched over ... read more ...
Tue 17th November 2015
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Electronic Frontier Foundation takes down travesty malware site - Site was spreading malware under “Pawn Storm”. It’s a bit ironic, really. Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends privacy and online freedoms, was itself spoofed in an attempt to spread malware. The organization has won control of the spoof site, ElectronicFrontierFoundation.org, through a cybersquatting complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name was used as part of “Pawn Storm“. A spear-phishing attack included a link to the fake site. The perpetrators, ... read more ...
Thu 12th November 2015
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Správci sítě Tor: FBI zaplatila univerzitě milion dolarů, aby nás … - Správci anonymní webové sítě Tor na svém blogu varují před nebezpečným precedentem.  Američtí federální vyšetřovatelé z FBI si údajně zaplatili masivní útok na Tor z loňského roku, který zrealizovali počítačoví specialisté z univerzity Carnegie Mellon. Vstupní branou do sítě Tor je upravený Firefox – Tor Browser, který umožňuje surfování v tomto alternativním šifrovaném světě Cílem bylo identifikovat provozovatele tzv. skrytých služeb, což ... read more ...
 
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Správci sítě Tor: FBI zaplatila univerzitě milion, aby nás nás napadla - Správci anonymní webové sítě Tor na svém blogu varují před nebezpečným precedentem.  Američtí federální vyšetřovatelé z FBI si údajně zaplatili masivní útok na Tor z loňského roku, který zrealizovali počítačoví specialisté z univerzity Carnegie Mellon. Vstupní branou do sítě Tor je upravený Firefox – Tor Browser, který umožňuje surfování v tomto alternativním šifrovaném světě Cílem bylo identifikovat provozovatele tzv. skrytých služeb, což ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2015
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Sony uses .Sony domain name instead of .Com for microsite - Company puts .brand to work. Last week I wrote about the .Brand challenge to .Com, and how it doesn’t come in the form of big companies giving up their .com domains. For example, Sony is never going to let Sony.com expire. Instead, challenge is the thousands of additional domain names companies register to promote contest, microsites, etc. Which is why a site recently launched by Sony is noteworthy. To promote some of its technology in the new Bond film Spectre, the company set up a site at AssistMoneyPenny.sony. This ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2015
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5 Questions To Select The Right Structure For Your International Websites - The most frequent question I am asked, both online and off, is: “What’s the best Web structure for my international site?” This question might seem quite basic and fundamental, but unfortunately, there is no clear-cut “right” answer. Although there are general best practices, the truth is that if you’re in a relatively competitive industry, the selection of the best international Web structure should take more into consideration than what Google suggests. The ... read more ...
Wed 14th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter .Com Domain Sale Today - The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy.  However the servers did not change and the domain was registered at Godaddy while it was owned by VS Media, Inc. VS.com as recently as 2006 was an adult site Video Secrets according to Screenshots.com More recently the domain was used to sell Customized Live Video Web Communication The domain name’s whois ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
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Websites with .Cloud Domain Name Begin Going Live - A number of companies are rushing to take full advantage of the new .cloud top level domain extension that is set to be available on November 16th. Businesses within the cloud realm are already weighing to benefits of the .cloud TLD, as it could help their business stand out for the pack. The .cloud TLD gives cloud based businesses brandability, and many organizations are taking advantage of the new .cloud TLD which will give their business a unique pop on business cards, presentations and ... read more ...
Thu 8th October 2015
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CSC October's New gTLD Utilization: 5,340 New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M - CSC’s Published Its October New gTLD Utilization Report,  showing the pace of .brand registrations accelerating with a 50% increase since their September report. The report was prepared by Here is the top 10: .link.tokyo     ... read more ...
Wed 7th October 2015
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Bridgestone Launches 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge Website - Tokyo (October 2, 2015) - Bridgestone Corporation today announced that it has launched a new website dedicated to 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. The site is designed to offer an additional element of enjoyment to the numerous fans of the solar car race for which Bridgestone is the primary sponsor. On this website, the Company will post updates regarding the teams to which it is supplying tires, as well as information about its tire technologies. During ... read more ...
Mon 5th October 2015
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Big Up Swing In Personal Domain Registration To Point To Social Media Sites - GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names and pointing them to a their social media page. According to a press release Godaddy published today said they are seeing an increase of 37% of such domains ... read more ...
Wed 30th September 2015
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Strangest Decision of The Year? Netflix Loses URS On The Domain Name Netflix.website - Netflix, Inc. just lost a complaint filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) on the domain name Netflix.website I have read through the short decision several times and still don’t understand it The domain owner said he doesn’t even own the domain. The domain which was had a website about Netflix service was found to be inactive when the Examiner David J. Steele, Esq. looked at it, yet he found in favor of the domain holder Here are the highlights: “At the outset, it is necessary ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2015
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Création d un tld pour réseau chiffré Recette de site à l oignon - 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 Création d un tld pour réseau chiffré Recette de site à l oignonPar CNIS magLe [2015-09-20] à 21:45:33Présentation : Prenez une poigne énergique de Jacob Appelbaum, une botte de machines Tor, incorporez progressivement une série de serveurs, faites revenir doucement ... read more ...
Mon 14th September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Domain Data on a tip 1,000 Websites - WHOAPI produced an infographic that took a peek inside the top 1,000 websites. They delve into things like preferred extensions, how many websites have one number in their website and where the top 1,000 host their websites. ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2015
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Domeinen verborgen Tor-websites officieel erkend - Dit heeft een divisie van domeinbeheerder ICANN bekendgemaakt. Er is een voorstel goedgekeurd, waardoor .onion gebruikt mag worden als een top-level domeinnaam. Websites op het Tor-netwerk gebruiken al langer .onion-domeinnamen, maar deze werden eerder nog niet erkend door ICANN. De websitedomeinen waren alleen te bezoeken vanuit een speciale Tor-browser. Tor-websites mogen door de goedkeuring gebruikmaken van SSL-certificaties om pagina's te beveiligen.  Anoniem netwerk Websites op ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
Written by DomainHack.er in PT and tagged
Domínios personalizados podem esconder sites perigosos; entenda - Domínios de Internet personalizados podem esconder sites suspeitos de práticas nocivas aos usuários. Muitos desses espaços ocultam sistemas para distribuição de spam, malwares, botnet e ataques phishing. Todos os dias são criados 20 mil novos sites, que só duram três mesesDomínios de topo (TLDs) são a parte final do endereço dos sites. No TechTudo, por exemplo, ".com.br" é o TLD. Domínios de topo personalizados substituem esse trecho por termos mais complexos, como ".review", ".science", ... read more ...