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DNW Certified Stats Now Compatible with SmartName
Another domain name parking service added to stats sharing system. This past year has been a big one for domain name parking service SmartName. It has combined all of its parking brands into one as well as rolled out (or enhanced) both SmartName Shops and a content parking solution. Apparently a lot of people are [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:57 am
auDA Domain Name News - 2 September
Is ICANN Handling Too Many Policy Issues? | White House To Meet With ICANN On Illegal Online Pharmacies | Australian domain registration | .IL Domain Names in Hebrew Available Soon | Pentagon considers preemptive strikes as part of cyber-defense strategy | The top five intellectual property traps in M&A transactions | au: Domain expiry downs UNSW sites, e-mail
Source: .auDA Domain Name News | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:40 am
auDA Domain Name News - 29 July
Global Upgrade Makes Internet More Secure: Helps defend users against specific types of cyber crime | Did ICANN just imply that the new gTLDs process will snub trademarks? | After 3,000 Emails, No Consensus on Registry-Registrar Separation | Australian Registrar Bottle Domains Termination By auDA Confirmed By Court | Not-so-secret seven hold keys to the internet | Is there really a key to reboot the internet? | Less than a year until internet addresses run dry
Source: .auDA Domain Name News | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:40 am
auDA Domain Name News - 5 August
VeriSign Reports Now Over 100 million .COM & .NET Domains | VeriSign Reports 9% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth in Second Quarter 2010; Company Achieves 4% Quarter-Over-Quarter Growth in Naming Services Deferred Revenue | U.S. doesn't have leadership, strategy to protect cyberspace globally | US Defense Report Reopens Debate Over Federal Cyber Roles | The Impending Nightmare of IPv6 | Google Will Sell Brand Names as Keywords in Europe
Source: .auDA Domain Name News | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:40 am
auDA Domain Name News - 6 September
Internet governance issues arise in Pacific | Obama seeks action on online pharmacies domain names | co: How to Become an Internet Land Baron | ITU head: Cyberwar could be 'worse than tsunami' | The future of the internet: The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it | UNSW reassures reliability to users after outages
Source: .auDA Domain Name News | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:40 am
auDA Domain Name News - 30 August
Temporary Drafting Group Work Session on New gTLD Registry Agreement Issues – to be held 8 September 2010 | Applicants Sought from Internet User Community for Seat on Board of Directors | ICANN's Tokyo Meeting Provides a Little More Clarity on the New gTLD Program by Tony Kirsch | White House Calls Meeting on Rogue Online Pharmacies | IPv6 is being deployed but not in the expected places | Will New gTLDs Be Successful? Distribution Will Be Key by Ken Hansen, Neustar | Nominet chief tells domainers to grow up
Source: .auDA Domain Name News | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:40 am
Epik Takes Innovative Approach to Domain Trading
Epik pushes the envelop at next week’s Domain Swap. Domain lifecycle platform Epik likes to try new and innovative things. Next week’s Domain Swap event at Epik DevCon in Seattle is another example. The Domain Swap brings in much needed liquidity and a common currency to domain trading, something that has been absent from similar [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:14 am
UDRP Panelists Still Can’t Agree on Decisions
Drug company loses dispute, but panelists disagree over key point. A recent UDRP brought by drug giant Sanofi-aventis is interesting on a couple counts. First, the company lost the case over the domain name ferrlecit.com. The respondent is a former licensee of Sanofi-aventis. It registered the domain name while it was a licensee. So it [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 7 Sep 2010 | 10:16 am
EURid launches its 2010 ERASMUS pilot action
EURid will be running a marketing initiative this autumn to promote European online identity and the .eu top-level domain to students.
Source: DomainNews - Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain | 7 Sep 2010 | 6:40 am
CO2.com to be auctioned off at Epik.com Domain Name Conference
Epik.com has recently announced the auction of many developed websites at the Epik.com Domain Developers Conference .The aucttion will start on September 16,at 1:30 PM .
Source: DomainNews - Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain | 7 Sep 2010 | 1:17 am
Vergleichen.com sells for 28,600 EUR
Sedo has brokered the sale of Vergleichen.com for 28,600 EUR.
Source: DomainNews - Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain | 7 Sep 2010 | 1:15 am
.eu Q2 2010 report reveals continued overall growth
EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain (TLD), issued today its quarterly progress report for Q2 2010, revealing a 10% year-over-year increase in .eu web address registrations when compared to Q2 2009.
Source: DomainNews - Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain | 7 Sep 2010 | 1:14 am
Launch for .SO on 1 November
Source: DomainNews - Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain | 6 Sep 2010 | 8:55 pm
George Soros’ Open Society Institute Loses Domain Dispute
Foundation backed by George Soros loses arbitration for domain name. Open Society Institute, a think tank and foundation founded by billionaire George Soros, has lost a domain name dispute over the domain OpenSociety.org. The majority of the three person National Arbitration Forum found that the domain name wasn’t registered and used in bad faith. Two [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 6 Sep 2010 | 11:35 am
Priority Inbox? How About Secure Inbox?
Let’s increase the security on webmail. Last week Google launched its new Gmail Priority Inbox feature to great fanfare. It’s a fantastic feature for people suffering from email overload. I have another suggestion for Gmail. Usage of web-based email services has exploded to the point that many people and companies keep critical information in their [...]
Source: Domain Name Wire | 6 Sep 2010 | 11:11 am
The .CA Registry (CIRA) and “Public Interest”
Guest contributor Zak Muscovitch is a domain name lawyer, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been practicing domain name law for over ten years and is now running for the election for a seat on the CIRA Board of Directors. Go to http://www.DNattorney.com and http://zak-for-cira.ca/ for more information. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (“CIRA”) [...]
Source: Domain Name News | 3 Sep 2010 | 3:47 pm
Domainvermarkter Forum Live Auction Results
Albeit with a very late start, we‘re were live blogging the auction results of the Domainvermarkter Forum Live domain auction held in Munich, Germany by Moniker/Snapnames today. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. The auction sold 107 domains out of 157 for a total of 75,290 Euro (appx. $96,700 USD). [...]
Source: Domain Name News | 3 Sep 2010 | 10:26 am
Apple inks Ping trademark deal with golf gear maker
Orange Ping sticks to sweet stuff
Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.
Source: The Register articles about domain name | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:29 am
My Exchange conversion
Sysadmin blog Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma
Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.
Source: The Register articles about domain name | 2 Sep 2010 | 6:45 am
.AT for only 3.99 EUR incl. VAT
Save over 80% - in September you can register the top-level domain of Austria at a rate of only 3.35 EUR / 3.99 EUR incl. VAT. This price is only valid for the first year of registration, with the second and subsequent years the regular price applies. This promotion is effective from September 1 to September 30, 2010 and applies to new 1-year registrations but not to domain renewals or transfers. No further discounts available. Register your favorite .AT domain now!
Source: Key-News dd24 | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:00 pm
Announcement: General maintenance on October 5, 2010
Please note: There will be a scheduled dd24 maintenance on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 between 8:00 and 18:00 CEST. During this time frame, we will move the dd24 web site and the registration interface to the new tier-3 Key-Systems data center in St. Ingbert, Germany. This means that some of our services will be limited or not available at short notice during the maintenance. We will inform you in a separate mailing about the detailed process and the affected services. The following services will NOT be affected by the maintenance work in general: - Webspaces - Mailspaces - vServer - DNS - Domains will continue to resolve normally
Source: Key-News dd24 | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:00 pm
.US for only 6.90 EUR incl. VAT
In September, we continue to offer .US domains at the special rate of only 5.80 EUR / 6.90 EUR incl. VAT. This price is valid for the first year of registration, with the second and subsequent years the regular price applies. The .US promotion is only valid for new 1-year registrations and lasts until September 30, 2010. Domain transfers and renewals are excluded. No further discounts available. Save now more than 50%!
Source: Key-News dd24 | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:00 pm
.MX for only 19.99 EUR incl. VAT
In September, we offer .MX domains at the special rate of only 16.80 EUR / 19.99 EUR incl. VAT - this is a discount of 60 percent! This rate is valid for the first year of registration, with the second and subsequent years the regular price applies. The .MX promotion applies to new 1-year registrations only and is valid from September 1 to September 30, 2010. Domain transfers and renewals are excluded. No further discounts available. Find your favorite .MX domain now!
Source: Key-News dd24 | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:00 pm
.COM for only 6.50 EUR incl. VAT
In September, we offer .COM domain names at the bargain price of only 5.46 EUR / 6.50 EUR incl. VAT. This special price is valid for the first year of registration, with the second and subsequent years the regular price applies. This promotion applies to new .COM 1-year registrations only and is valid from September 1 to September 30, 2010. Domain transfers and renewals are excluded. No further discounts available. Save now nearly 50% of the regular registration fee.
Source: Key-News dd24 | 1 Sep 2010 | 7:00 pm
Breaking: Buyers of DomainName.com Registrar Revealed
As DNN has learned the buyers of the DomainName.com registrar and customer base sold by DomainConsultant, are non other than Richard Lau of DomainManager.com and Richard Kirkendall of NameCheap.com. The two, also known as “The Richards” partnered up on the purchase and are planning to transform the company into a new brand. Richard Kirkendall told [...]
Source: Domain Name News | 1 Sep 2010 | 2:28 pm
Sedo Weekly Sales Report, Lead by Angels.com
Sedo reported their sales for last week. Highlights include the already reported angels.com sale at 200,000 USD, progress.nl as the top ccTLDs sale at 20,000 EUR (appx. $25,250 USD), and hostel.info leading the other category at 7,900 EUR (appx. $9,950 USD). See all of the reported sales after the jump. (c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com Advertisement Offer: [...]
Source: Domain Name News | 31 Aug 2010 | 5:47 pm
DomainName.com Registrar Sold by DomainConsultant
According to a post on DomainConsultant’s site, the registrar DomainName.com and related assets have been sold today. The buyer and final selling price have not been disclosed. At the same time the company announced an upcoming auction with an 8% commission and is now accepting domain submissions via email to mike (at) domainconsultant.com. Disclaimer: Adam [...]
Source: Domain Name News | 31 Aug 2010 | 5:11 pm
Nominet chief tells domainers to grow up
You've all been very naughty boys
The chief executive of .uk domain manager Nominet has called for the "domaining" community to "grow up" and start looking more respectable.
Source: The Register articles about domain name | 27 Aug 2010 | 10:53 am
Applicants Sought from Internet User Community for Seat on Board of Directors
26 August 2010
Source: ICANN Announcements | 26 Aug 2010 | 9:04 pm
Save the Date! Learn About Meetings For the Next Decade Survey Results and Next Steps
25 August 2010
Source: ICANN Announcements | 25 Aug 2010 | 1:45 pm
Bulk Transfer of Domain Names from Lead Networks Domains to Answerable.com
24 August 2010
Source: ICANN Announcements | 24 Aug 2010 | 7:15 pm
ICANN Publishes Draft Agreement on .XXX
24 August 2010
Source: ICANN Announcements | 24 Aug 2010 | 3:00 pm
Take-Two Interactive loses fight for Bioshock.com
Game over, man
Games giant Take-Two Interactive has lost an attempt to obtain the domain name Bioshock.com through arbitration proceedings from a company that owns hundreds of thousands of domain names.
Source: The Register articles about domain name | 24 Aug 2010 | 5:21 am
Call for Statements of Interests for Candidates for Post of ICANN Board Seat Extended to September 6, 2010
20 August 2010
Source: ICANN Announcements | 20 Aug 2010 | 2:17 pm
It's time to presume the web is guilty
Sysadmin blog Trevor's got a plan to save the internet
The security defenses available to us are clumsy and inadequate. Anti-malware applications are grand at dealing with well known threats, but pathetic and worthless at dealing with emerging ones. Software vendors are too entrenched in politics, feasibility studies and bad attempts at public relations to bother to properly and expediently patch their software.
Source: The Register articles about domain name | 20 Aug 2010 | 5:29 am
