100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are ‘Shady’ - Based on data just published (PDF) by the network security and deep packet inspection tool vendor Blue Coat, that’s exactly what happened: some of the new “neighborhoods” open for name registration have become nearly exclusively the domain of people setting up hosts for spam e-mailing, scams, shady software downloads, malware distribution, botnet operations and “phishing” attacks, or other suspicious content. One hundred percent of sites accessed with the.zip and.review TLD that had ... read more ...

‘Shadiest’ New Internet Addresses - New research by security firm Blue Coat offers us an interesting a petty mixed picture of how the new domains possibilities are being used and, sure enough, some of them are being abused on an industrial scale to game search engines and worse. For example, in case of the domain.kim, the researchers discovered websites serving up pages that mimic popular video and image sites and prompt unprotected visitors to unwittingly download malware. “Generally, if you look closer, most of these appear ... read more ...

Google Does Not Run Shady Domain, Study Authors Say - Clicking on a Web address ending in .zip will not endanger users, the authors of a study that put .zip at the top of a list of "shady Web neighbourhoods" said on Friday.Google, which owns the top-level domain (TLD) .zip challenged the study after it was published on Tuesday..zip is one of more than 1,000 new TLDs that have cropped up since a liberalisation of Web addresses in the past two years, adding to the familiar .com, .org and .gov.The study published by enterprise security company Blue ... read more ...

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 ...

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 ...

The shadiest characters in the world of top-level domains - CNET 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 ... read more ...

TLD’s Aaron Gwin | 2015 Downhill MTB World Cup - TLD’s Aaron Gwin Clinches 2015 DH MTB World Cup Val di Sole, Italy – August 24, 2015 Aaron Gwin dominated the field again this week at the final round of the 2015 World Cup, taking home gold. With the win, Gwin also locked up the overall series title which came down to the wire. The track in Italy is known to be one of the fastest and roughest on the circuit and it took its toll on both riders and bikes this weekend. Course designers added an additional section of track above the old start ... read more ...

The 2015 Moz Search Engine Ranking Study Shows Links Still Super Important - Moz has announced the publication of the 2015 Moz search ranking factors study. The study shared a lot of data on correlation and expert interviews, it is the largest they put together yet.In short, it seems links and anchor text still rank supreme with Google. Things like HTTPS and TLDs have very little correlation. Here is the summary infographic they published, but you can dive into the details over here.Forum discussion at Google+ and Local Search Forums. ... read more ...

9th Cir. Dumps Antitrust Suit Against ICANN -      (CN) - An Internet registry specializing in "expressive" top-level domains cannot proceed with antitrust claims against a goverment-linked domain assigner, the Ninth Circuit ruled.     Name.space, which specializes in so-called "expressive" top-level domains (TLD), like .art and .food, challenged the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) round of applications for TLDs to be included in the organization's "root-zone file," in California in 2012.     ICANN, under ... read more ...

Google Rejects French Watchdog Demand For Global Privacy Delistings - Google said “non.” In a blog post, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer explained why Google wouldn’t comply with the French data protection watchdog demands. The CNIL wanted the American company to widen its implementation of the so-called European ‘right to be forgotten.’ In its current implementation, Google only delists results from the Google.fr and other European TLDs, and the CNIL wants global delistings. TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas has been thoroughly covering the right to ... read more ...

Neustar Acquires Bombora Technologies; Appoints Deborah Rieman, Paul Ballew to … - NewsNeustar Acquires Bombora Technologies; Appoints Deborah Rieman, Paul Ballew to Board Real-time provider of cloud-based information services, Neustar, has announced the acquisition of Australia-based Bombora Technologies for approximately $86.9 million. With this new acquisition, Neustar, which operates the .us, .biz, and .co top-level domains (TLDs), among others, has expanded its registry services to include ... read more ...

Neustar Acquires Leading Domain Name Registry Provider Bombora Technologies - STERLING, Va., Jul 30, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Neustar, Inc. NSR, -0.26% ... read more ...

Six Key Takeaways from ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires - Geographic Names Issues Remain in the Governmental Advisory Committee's Spotlight GAC Argentina Proposal on the Use of Geographic Names Still Refuses to Die Although there was no separate session on this subject in Buenos Aires for broad community discussion, the GAC Representative of Argentina presented to the full GAC the progress of the GAC's Working Group on Protection of Geographic Names, which hopes to prevent "misuse" of country, region and community names. GAC member reactions to the presentation ... read more ...

Verisign Rating Increased to Buy at Zacks (VRSN) - Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) was upgraded by Zacks from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, MarketBeat.com reports. The firm currently has a $78.00 price objective on the stock. Zacks‘s target price would indicate a potential upside of 11.48% from the stock’s previous close. According to Zacks, “Internet infrastructure assurance and domain registry services provider VeriSign reported strong second-quarter 2015 results with ... read more ...

Google: New TLDs Have No Magical SEO Bonus - John Mueller at Google must have a pet peeve against the misinformation domain name registrars push out about TLDs and SEO. He has time and time again said they play no role in ranking at Google. But that didn't stop John and Google from posting something official on the Google blog yesterday. John said Google has heard "questions and misconceptions" about the new TLDs and wanted to set the record straight. On Google+ John said the short version: Somewhat simplified: if you spot a domain ... read more ...

Google swears blind it doesn’t give SEO advantage to new internet dot-words - Analysis For the third time in three years, Google has reiterated its position that it will not give a search ranking advantage to domain names with new internet top-level domains. In a post to its Webmaster Central Blog, the search engine giant has posted and answered six questions over how it handles top-level domains. Most of the questions reiterate widely known policies, such as the fact that "country ... read more ...

Google: All Domain Extensions Are Weighted The Same - Google cleared the air today about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that they’re all weighted equally.With the sudden surge in the amount of domain extensions available, Google has been receiving questions about how the new top level domains (TLDs) like .expert and .pizza are being treated versus old TLDs like .com and .org.The short answer: When Google crawls, indexes, and ranks URLs it makes no difference whether your domain ends in .com or .sucks.All TLDs are treated the same ... read more ...

Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says Google - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...

Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart. Thursday doesn’t even start. Friday I’m in … - Today, Friday, sees the launch of one of the more interesting new internet top-level domains that has been approved by ICANN: .love. The TLD has passed from "sunrise" – during which trademark holders get first dibs on their names for a premium – to "general availability." Which means that you can now buy a domain ending in .love right now. Plus you can actually buy Friday, I'm In .Love (you know, ... read more ...

Tony Merchant to Become Wizard of .LOVE | news.sys-con.com – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>New .LOVE Domain Names Launch on the Internet with Free Giveaway to CouplesTORONTO, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - A well-known Canadian lawyer is promoting the launch of the new TLD [Top Level Domain] .LOVE today onto the World Wide Web.Top Level Domains (TLDs) is the term for internet suffixes such as .com, .net and .info -- and now .club, .wiki (as well as other new TLDs), and .LOVE which begins worldwide public ... read more ...

Last Day To Enter – Chance to Win a Free Apple Watch Courtesy of Radix - Today is the last day to enter to win an Apple Watch Tell us which .site domain you are watching out for and would love to buy, and get a chance to win an Apple Watch! Featured in the top three “most valued TLDs” by SEDO, .site is one of the most awaited new gTLDs. Having received 100,000+ expressions of interest already, it’s poised to become the next big TLD and definitely one of the best namespaces to invest in. If you could have any .site domain, which one would it be? Share it with us ... read more ...

Right to reply: Happy 30th Birthday dotOrg - Stuart Fuller, Director of Commercial Operations and Communications at NetNames, comments on the 30th birthday of the dotOrg domain name, and how TLDs can help non-profit organisations establish an online marketing strategy. dotOrg was one of the six original Top Level Domains launched in 1985, along with dotCom and dotGov. As opposed to dotCom, which represents commercial interests, dotOrg was launched to reflect charitable or not-for-profit organisations. Thirty years later, the name space has ... read more ...

Nominet: the force is with Disney - A UK fancy dress retailer has been told to give up six .uk and .co.uk domains containing the famous ‘Star Wars’ movie title to The Walt Disney Company. Nominet, through its dispute resolution service covering the .uk and .co.uk TLDs, issued the order on 5 July. Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars movie franchise, which was bought by Disney for $4.06 billion in 2012, requested the transfer of the ‘Star Wars’ domains, all containing variations of the registered trademarks, ... read more ...

How many top-level domains are there now? 300? 500? No, it’s 1,000 • The … - There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw. This week, seven TLDs were added to the internet's root as part of the "new generic TLD" process being run by DNS overseer ICANN, pushing it over the 1,000 threshold. They were: .airtel, .barcelona, .bcn, .game, .jprs, .live, and .studio. In response, one of the people in charge of keeping ... read more ...