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Mon 30th March 2015
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IP owners make last-ditch effort to derail “predatory” ‘.sucks’ rollout - Trevor Little ICANN’s IP Constituency has called on ICANN to immediately halt the “‘.sucks’ predatory registration scheme designed to exploit trademark owners”, and questioned the unique registry fees that could see ICANN benefit financially, to the tune of $1 million, from the TLD.  Sent to ICANN late on Friday (and available online courtesy ... read more ...
Sun 29th March 2015
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Avella Approved for .Pharmacy Domain Name - Avella Specialty Pharmacy has been approved by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) to register a .pharmacy domain name for its website. The pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) was created to provide consumers around the world with a means for easily identifying safe and legal online pharmacies and related resources. To be approved, applicants must demonstrate that they adhere to standards and policies that were developed by a global coalition of stakeholders, including the International ... read more ...
Sat 28th March 2015
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How Donuts Is Playing a Big Role in the New gTLD Era - With $100 million in VC funding and well over 100 new top-level domain names, Donuts has emerged to become the pre-eminent vendor in the new era of Internet domains. For much of the Internet's history, top-level domains (TLDs) were few in number, but that has changed over the course of the past year as new generic TLDs (gTLDs) have emerged. TLDs are the naming suffix for Internet addresses and include dot-com (as in eWEEK.com), which recently turned 30 years ... read more ...
Fri 27th March 2015
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All Dispensing Pharmacies Eligible to Request .Pharmacy Domain Names … - PRESS RELEASE The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) will begin accepting applications for .pharmacy domain names from all dispensing pharmacies beginning April 1, 2015. Since the .Pharmacy Top-Level Domain (TLD) Program was launched in 2014, the Association has approved about 275 .pharmacy domain names applied for or requested during prior limited registration periods. NABP launched the .pharmacy TLD to provide consumers around the world a means for easily identifying safe and ... read more ...
 
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Another “sweet” Deal Done Right By Sedo - Submit |RSS|Print|Comments Loading... Boston, Mass. -  Sedo is fresh off a big high from our successful promotion at this year’s SXSW in Austin. Through our free “gTLD-topped” frozen yogurt food truck promotion we were able to connect with tons of both tech-savvy and non-techy savvy professionals while giving out close to 5,000 servings of frozen yogurt and almost 2,000 coffee.club cups of coffee over a five day period. We made huge strides in educating the SXSW audience about domains ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift in Porn Domain Purchases; Singer Takes Preemptive Measure … - Haters gonna hate, hate, hate but songstress and New York City Global Welcome Ambassador Taylor Swift has already put claims on .porn and .adult web suffixes paired with her name. The non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has allowed a select list of people and firms to get the first pick before the new set of domain names are opened to the public this summer, a CNN report said. ICANN decided in 2011 to create more generic top-level domains, also known ... read more ...
Thu 26th March 2015
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Aiming to Increase the Appetite for New gTLDs a Free Sedo Food Truck Served … - We're used to getting sales reports from domain industry giant Sedo, but the data that came in today was a lot different than what we usually see with frozen ... read more ...
 
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Filing Fee for .sucks Top-Level Domain Names Really Sucks for Brand Owners - The recent top-level domain name explosion has been of great interest to existing brand owners and new market entrants alike. No longer is a business limited to deciding which of a few top-level domains, such as .com, .net, .org., .us or various country-specific domains, to select when registering for a new Internet address. Under the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the number of top-level domains available ... read more ...
 
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Afilias Supports the CrypTech Project – The Most Ambitious Hardware … - DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--Global domain registry operator and Internet technology innovator Afilias has pledged funding support to the CrypTech Project. CrypTech is an industry effort to address the increasingly challenging Internet security environment, especially as it affects cryptographic algorithms in hardware. The CrypTech team of experts is working to develop an open hardware cryptographic engine design that will enable the highest levels of ... read more ...
 
 
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Buying web addresses best protection for brands in light of expansion of domains – Out - Brand owners might have lost the battle to prevent the expansion of generic top-level domains (gtlds), but a bit of pragmatism now could massively reduce those companies' exposure to reputational risks. There will be a cost for businesses in registering web addresses rooted at the new domains, but it will be lower than the costs those businesses would face in retrospectively challenging ownership of web addresses that cause damage to their brands. Even then, businesses whose brands are protected ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Nigeria registers 80000 domain names in three years - Nigerian Communications Commission HeadquartersABOUT 80, 000 Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, the .ng have so far been registered in the country since the campaign began in 2012. This was disclosed to The Guardian, by the President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the agency incharge of administering domain names in the country, Mrs. Mary Uduma. Uduma however, disclosed that out of the 80, 000, only about 60, 000 are active; stressing ... read more ...
 
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The race to secure .porn domains - On the defensive, a number of celebrities and brands have secured unsavory web domains all in an effort to keep others from destroying their public image. SiliconANGLE takes a look at a few of the more notable domains that were quickly usurped by wary Hollywood and Fortune 500 elite. In 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the entity responsible for top level domains — announced the expansion of generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). This meant that aside from seeing ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift And Microsoft Snatch Up .Porn Domains To Ward Off Opportunists … - It may sound strange, but one thing pop music star Taylor Swift and software giant Microsoft have in common is that both are feverishly acquiring .porn and .sucks domains. No, they're not looking to flip their respective brands upside down, nor are they collaborating on a new adult site to rule them all -- they're simply trying to pull the rug out from under the trolls. As the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continues to expand the number of generic ... read more ...
 
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March 23: updated status of sunrise periods and trademark claims notification … - As we previously reported to you (click here to view April 29, 2013 TLD article), the internet is expanding to include hundreds of new top-level-domains (TLDs) (examples of TLDs as we know them today include .com, .net. and .org – i.e., the term that is to the right of the "dot"). While the only certainty at that time was that the launch was inevitable, like it or not, it's finally here (click here to view January 9, 2014 Sunrise article). Frost Brown Todd will be sending out updates ... read more ...
 
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3 Reasons Why Buying Taylor Swift.porn Isn’t Going To Stop Trolls -

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Taylor Swift has bought all porn domains with her name - According to a CNN report, American singer Taylor Swift has recently purchased all the porn domains which feature her name. As a result of the move, Taylor now owns porn domain sites such as TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult, among others. Swift’s move to purchase the porn domains with her name is an evident effort by the singer to minimize the chance of Internet trolls – pornographers wishing to capitalize on her name, brand and image - ... read more ...
 
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Google: ccTLDs Can Get US Traffic Also, No Need To Worry - A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a ccTLD, specifically a .com.au (Australian top level domain) and he is concerned that over the past four months or so, his US origin traffic from Google search has spiked.He said, "Its weird because for the past 4 months we are getting huge impression from United States even though our domain is com.au."The concern is that he is not targeting Australian searchers any more and something was reset.Google's John Mueller responded that this ... read more ...
 
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Cost v benefit: assessing the ‘.porn’, ‘.adult’, ‘.sucks’ defensive registration … - Trevor Little The ‘.adult’, ‘.porn’ and ‘.sucks’ gTLDs are likely to pose particular challenges to brand owners, not least uncertainty over the likely success of Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) actions against registrations in these strings. So, what’s a brand to do? This week, the sunrise period for ICM Registry’s ‘.adult’ ... read more ...
 
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Taylor Swift Buys Adult Domain Names to Thwart Fraudsters - US songstress Taylor Swift has been defensively registering new adult-themed generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) in a bid to head off phishers, cybersquatters and the like. The 25-year-old American singer-songwriter, or more likely her management team, made the proactive move of buying up TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult – two of the new gTLDs which go on public sale on 1 June, according to the BBC. At $99 each, they’re not the most expensive new gTLDs around – with some apparently costing ... read more ...
 
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First figures in and it doesn’t look good for new internet dot-words - Figures on the number of new dot-word domain names renewed after their first time have emerged – and they are not absolutely stellar. More than one in 10 of the listed dot-thing domain names were not renewed. Registry giant Donuts has released two sets of data for the first batch of gTLD addresses it put on sale this time last year – domains ending in .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, and others. ... read more ...
 
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Yourbrand.SUCKS? - As many of you know, in addition to the gTLDs with which we are familiar, such as .com, .org, and .net, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") has approved over a thousand new gTLDs. Of significant concern for brand owners everywhere is ICANN’s approval of the gTLD.SUCKS, which is set to launch before the end of the year. Brand owners who have registered their trademarks with the Trademark Clearinghouse will have first dibs at domain names in the pernicious ... read more ...
 
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Revolución de dominios en Internet toma forma - Más Los Ángeles (EE. UU.). EFE. Internet atraviesa por una revolución silenciosa, marcada por el florecimiento de centenares de nuevos dominios que se distancian del puntocom para redefinir quién es quién en la red, un negocio de millones de dólares que enfrenta en subastas a los gigantes tecnológicos. Se trata de una transformación paulatina que comenzó en el 2011, cuyo impacto se empezó a ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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Did Taylor Swift Really Just Buy A Bunch Of Porn Sites?! - Posted on Mon Mar 23rd, 2015 1:21pm PDT       By X17 Staff In a word, yup! Swift has purchased TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult, according to CNNMoney. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has added .sucks, .porn and .adult to their long list of generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, and the country star was able to get in early and buy her own websites before anyone else can. The TLDs will be available for purchase for the rest of us on June 1, but ... read more ...
 
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Experts discover phishing campaign leveraging .gov TLD loophole - March 23, 2015 Researchers have picked up on a new spam campaign that sends victims phishing messages from a .gov account that thwarts email validation systems. One of the email addresses used by the attacker leverages the .gov TLD, which circumvents Sender Policy Framework (SPF) email validation, thus increasing the chances of victims actually receiving the spam, according to researchers at Trend Micro. Two other registered domain names leveraged by the miscreant ... read more ...