Security Firm Calls Out Top 10 Most Suspicious New gTLDs - The report discovered that 100 % of the web sites in Blue Coat's database with the top-level domains of.zip and.assessment have been suspicious. The other eight, including.country, .kim, .cricket, .science, .work, .party, .gq (Equatorial Guinea) and.link, were not much safer, with 96.98 percent to 99.97 percent of the websites they hosted deemed untrustworthy."As the number of TLDs has increased, so have the opportunities for attackers", warns Blue Coat. "To be able to construct a greater safety ... read more ...

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 ...

Hit the dot - Hit the dotThe introduction of new gTLDs has brought with it novel questions about how to decide whether a domain name is identical or confusingly similar to another’s trademark. Nathalie Dreyfus of Dreyfus reportsThe new gTLD .paris has been available to everyone since 2 December 2014, making it the first gTLD in France to be specifically dedicated to a city. While it has become difficult to stand out on the web with now classic domain names such as .fr or .com, .paris represents a great ... read more ...

BlueCoat Study: Top 10 Shady Sites in New gTLD’s Is Flawed as Unlaunched .Zip … - Blue Coat Systems, Inc, an enterprise security company, issued a report today of the 10 new gTLD’s that have the most “Shady Sites” (pdf) concluding that “more than 95% of websites in 10 new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are suspicious” The report is already getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media but there is a huge issue with the report that hasn’t been covered. The new gTLD topping the list is .Zip which hasn’t even launched yet. .Zip which is delegated to the root is owned ... read more ...

BlueCoat Publishes Report 95% of Websites in 10 New gTLD’s Are “Suspicious … - Blue Coat Systems, Inc, an enterprise security company, issued a report today of the 10 new gTLD’s that have the most “Shady Sites” (pdf) concluding that “more than 95% of websites in 10 new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are suspicious” The report is already getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media but there is a huge issue with the report that hasn’t been covered. The new gTLD topping the list is .Zip which hasn’t even launched yet. .Zip which is delegated to the root is owned ... read more ...

Online Reviews Provide Insights into gTLD Customers’ Needs - There is a high degree of uncertainty when launching a product, and new gTLDs are no exception. However, registries that have introduced them — or will introduce them in the second round of new gTLDs — can improve their odds. A key move: go to established domain name forums and check out their specialized sections for new gTLDs. What users say there can help companies refine tactics and strategy. In a recent study, Simon Li, Kamrun Nahar, and Benjamin C.M. Fung of Concordia University ... read more ...

New gTLDs: preparing for the next round of the online expansion - The end of the first-round roll-out of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is in sight. While some of the most highly sought-after strings have yet to hit the market, detailed assessments of Round 1 are underway as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) lays the groundwork for a second application window. For brand owners, the online shake-up has created both opportunities and challenges. In this exclusive roundtable discussion, three trademark ... read more ...

Sedo Talks Domain Values and Market Data on StartUpStud.com - StartupStud.com conducted an interview with Sedo, on topics such as what determines a domain’s value, how should an entrepreneur go about getting the best domain ? .Com vs new gtlds when it comes to value and sales data. A couple questions from the interview: StartupStud.com: What are the primary factors that determine a domain’s value? Sedo: A few of the major categories we take into consideration when placing a value on a domain are the TLD, length of the domain, linguistic suitability, and ... read more ...

The dot-com era is over, welcome to .anything - For both new and existing businesses, new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) offer increased flexibility and opportunities for an expanded online presence. A gTLD is the part of a web address that comes after the “dot” (“.”). Historically, gTLDs were limited to only a few, such as “.com,” “.org” or “.net.” However, in 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting applications for new gTLDs, and the first new gTLDs went live in 2013. Some ... read more ...

Syntax Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs Presented in Accuracy Reporting System … – ag-IP - Home / Syntax Accuracy of WHOIS Data in gTLDs Presented in Accuracy Reporting ... / LOS ANGELES - ICANN published the Phase 1 report of the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS), which provides information about the syntax accuracy of WHOIS records in generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as compared to the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreements (RAAs), a press by ICANN stated. Using the obligations of the Registrar Accreditation ... read more ...

From Microsoft to BMW, big brands are buying up .news web domains in a hurry - Online domain provider Rightside expected “.news” to become one of its top new domain extensions since the application window first opened to create — and own — alternatives to the usual website endings like .com or .org. The Seattle company has already launched more than 30 different domains — called generic top-level domains, or gTLDs — including .sale., .dentist and the ever-famous .ninja. But .news has been something special all along. More than 1,000 domains ... read more ...

The Dot-com Era Is Over, Welcome to .Anything - [author: Meryl Hulteng] For both new and existing businesses, new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) offer increased flexibility and opportunities for an expanded online presence. A gTLD is the part of a web address that comes after the “dot” (“.”). Historically, gTLDs were limited to only a few, such as “.com,” “.org” or “.net.” However, in 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began accepting applications for new gTLDs, and the first new ... read more ...

Do New gTLDs Disrupt .com? - This post examines whether the new gTLDs program is a disruptive innovation to the dominance of .com. I then use the idea of disruptive innovation to explain the relative adoption failure of previous generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .biz, .info and .mobi. Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption explains battles between market entrants and incumbents. Examples of markets transformed by disruptive innovations include classified ads (Craigslist), long-distance calls ... read more ...

CB Insights: Covers World’s Most Popular Non-.com Startup Domains, but … - CB Insights.com which covers the startup/ venture capital markets published an interesting post entitled “The Non-Dotcom Bubble: The World’s Most Popular Startup Domains Other Than .Com” The story contains a chart tracking the most popular Non-.Com domain name extensions for funded tech companies from 2010-2015. Of course since the first new gTLD didn’t launch until 2014, none are reflected in the chart. Unfortunately as you will see later,  CB Insights is very confused about new gTLD’s ... read more ...

Washington Post Covers Several New gTLD’s & Asks: Who Needs .com? - The movement is on! Google has greatly helped all new gTLD’s and there are many mainstream media sites covering gTLD’s daily. This is really great news in general for the domain industry as a whole and clearly the gTLD’s! Although many of these stories relate to .com when talking about the new gTLD’s, like a new one today from the WashingtonPost.com with a title of: “Who Needs .com? Domains When .Vegas, .PR, .NYC are Trending” The story highlights several companies using gTLD’s like ... read more ...

.ONLINE Sees the Biggest Generic Sunrise Ever - The .online Sunrise ended earlier today 775 Sunrise registrations, breaking the Sunrise record of popular extensions like .news, .london, .nyc, .clothing, .global, .club, .company etc., only behind frisky risky extensions like .sucks, adult, .porn and a few geo extensions. Below is a overall summary of the Sunrise numbers: Data Source: Sunrise reports published on The Domains and Draft RPM review report published by ICANN in Feb, 2015 Radix is ecstatic about the success of the .online ... read more ...

Making Sense of Google’s .xyz gTLD Branding - Google has a newly created parent, a holding company that is now its official owner. Of course, Google will keep using its extremely well-known name for its core search and related businesses. But the company now operates under an entity known as Alphabet — to give its name with extension, Alphabet.xyz. Here specialists in gTLDs may be scratching their heads. Why .xyz? Why this little-known domain for one of the world's great corporations? My theory: Google is trying its hand at a new style ... read more ...

Is Google Alphabet .xyz The New .com? - Google’s surprise use of the .xyz domain for its new holding company, Alphabet, has led to a rush on new registrations under the domain. Is .xyz the new .com?(Photo : Google | Tech Times) Google surprised everybody this past week by announcing it plans to restructure its business and fold itself into a holding company known as Alphabet, hosted at the url "Abc.xyz." What surprised some observers even more, however, was the new company's use of the .xyz domain, rather than the old ... read more ...

Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance - Daniel Negari is the founder of .XYZ, the company that acts as the registry operator for the .xyz domain. When I interviewed him for WIRED’s April issue, he told me, “We end the alphabet in ‘xyz’ and we should end domain names the same way.” It turns out someone agrees with him. Yesterday, Google’s new holding company, Alphabet, revealed that it is making its online home at abc.xyz—a move that could signal an end to .com dominance for good. Negari launched .XYZ last year to get ... read more ...

10 reasons to use a new domain extension for your business - This article is brought to you by .tech domains - the new online identity for the global tech community. Use the coupon code ‘TECHLAUNCH’ on www.get.tech. It’s time to stop flooding the internet with skipped vowels and incorrect spellings just to get a short domain name that kind-of fits your company name. Even better, startup founders no longer have to name their companies after the best domain name they can find (it happens!). New domain extensions, or generic Top Level ... read more ...

Domaincom Launches Latest New Domain Extensions - VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Domain.com, part of Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI), today launched the new domain extensions .TECH and .ONLINE, continuing the expansion of the Internet's domain name system and joining over 300 new domain extensions launched by Domain.com in the last two years. .TECH is the latest vertically focused domain extension, targeting tech startups and software developers. .ONLINE is now available for pre-registration and carries international ... read more ...

Rightside Announces Second Quarter 2015 Financial Results – Virtual - Second Quarter Total Revenue Increases 12% Year-Over-Year KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 4, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015. "In the second quarter, we delivered record revenue and strong performance across our business," said Chief Executive Officer Taryn Naidu. Naidu ... read more ...