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Asia Internet Market Soars
According to the Internet analyst company’s latest statement, the regional Internet audience grew at an average of 14 percent during the first half of the year to hit 319 million users. India registered the strongest growth at 27 percent with over 28 million users, followed by China at 14 percent growth with over 102 million, [...]
IEDR reigns king of domains
In recent weeks, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) passed the 100,000 mark in the number of .ie domains registered. is chief executive of the IEDR. You describe the IEDR as a ?managed? registry. What does this mean versus the general ?.com? domain? We have controls in place to ensure the person or firm applying [...]
ICANN Response to Recent Security Threats
ICANN has been the recent target of an online attacks. This announcement provides more information on those attacks and ICANN’s response to them.
As has been widely reported, a number of domain names, including icann.com and iana.com were recently redirected to different DNS servers, allowing a group to provide visitors to those domains with their own [...]
What do you get in a domain name ?
The plan was foolproof.
It started fermenting in our heads after a radical online shakeup was announced this week. As of next year, it seems, we’re going to be freed of the shackles of .com, .net, .org, and their cronies. To date, every Internet address has had to end in such ?top-level domains,? be they generic [...]
Bice?s Florist Buys big
Bice?s Florist is closing its stores and buying up domain names as part of its strategy to drive more customers to its site and boost e-commerce sales.
The Fort Worth, TX-based florist has closed four of its six bricks-and-mortar locations and plans to close a fifth soon and has adopted a domain name acquisition strategy as [...]
More from Paris?
As we suggested last week, ICANN, the body which regulates global internet addresses, have relaxed rules on top level domain (TLD) names, opening the way for domain extensions like .property and .spain. The ruling will affect the economics of the domain name market, which has implications for agents and developers.
There has always been a premium [...]
What?s Next for IPv6 in the U.S.?
With a federal mandate in place and an expected address crunch looming, is the country any further ahead in adopting IPv6?
The U.S. government operates one of the largest technology infrastructures on Earth, and it’s all supposed to be IPv6-ready.
At least, that was the plan.
A three-year-old mandate for IPv6 usage, put into place by the White [...]
Illegal and Counterfeit Drugs Online and the Cybersquatting Problem
The problem of cybersquatting is something of a concern to international drug-makers as it is a key part in the international problem of counterfeit and illegal drugs sold online.
The European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) in their report The Counterfeiting Superhighway says:
62% of medicines purchased online are fake or substandard (including medicines indicated [...]
Chinese characters coming soon?
THE Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has agreed that “.??”, meaning China, can officially begin use as a domain name next year, Jiefang Daily reported.
The China Internet Network Information Center made the announcement on Tuesday, saying it will provide a more convenient method for netizens who only use Chinese to surf the Internet, [...]
Aussie Domains up for sale
So how much is www.sexy.com.au worth and can I sell the name? Actually, RU Sexy already beat you to that name but substitute another prospective domain name of your choice.
Up until now it has been difficult to answer questions about the value of [...]
Open Registrations start soon for .ME
The .ME Registry is about to open domain name registrations on a first-come, first-served basis, and if initial indicators are accurate, the .ME domain names will move quickly. Open Registration Officially begins July 17.
The .ME Registry concluded its Landrush Period June 26. The 20-day time [...]
CADNA Unhappy With ICANN Meeting Outcomes
Not everyone is happy with ICANN’s decision last week that could lead to a lot more TLDs. The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is dead against such a move, saying it could lead to as many as 300 new gTLDs in 2009. CADNA has called the decision “drastic” and that the decision was made [...]
PushToAuction.com selling Sedo Domains
Getting a domain listed in Sedo?s domain auction can be a big win for domain owners, especially if their domains are generic.
There are two ways to get a domain listed in Sedo?s auction. One is to submit it to an account manager or to the monthly Great Domains auction. You have to have good [...]
Domain name Whirlwind
Last week?s decision to allow companies to buy their own top-level domains (TLDs) has led to press forecasts of a ?land-grab? similar to that of the late 1990s. Nora Nanayakkara, director of business development at domain marketplace SEDO, believes this prospect may be exaggerated.
?You need substantial means, about $500,000 [£250,000] to purchase your own TLD,? [...]
Moniker Auctions Geographic Domain Names
A complete auction catalog will be released soon. Inventory updates are
available at www.moniker.com/liveauction . The final catalog will include
approximately 2,000 of the best geo-focused domain values for sale in the
extended online auction. Of that list, only the top 250 names will make it
into the live domain auction.
The auction will include the following premium domains:
– Fargo.net [...]
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Bido Drops ?Guarantees? In Domain Auctions
Bido.com no longer guarantees a sales price to sellers.
After gaining experience from a couple week’s worth of domain auctions, Bido has made a sweeping change. It will no longer “guarantee” a certain sales price to sellers.
Bido cofounder Sahar Sarid noted on his blog “Looking at domain submissions we learned that if you [...]
Recap: Domain Name Auction Firestorm
Here’s a look back at the firestorm that hit domain auctions over the past two weeks.
It’s been a busy week at Domain Name Wire. And perhaps a busier week for GoDaddy. Here’s a run down of what took place and what it means for the industry.
It all started when a reader tipped me [...]
Will Cost Per Action Replace Cost Per Click?
The future of cost-per-click is questionable.
Cost-per-click advertising, such as Google Adwords, is a staple of the internet advertising industry. It is also the primary form of advertising used to monetize parked domain names. But will CPC give way to CPA (cost per action)?
First, a little history. It used to be that many [...]
BuyDomains Does Dirty Work of Targeting End Users
NameMedia division uses marketing muscle promoting domain names to small and medium businesses.
It seems like everywhere I look these days I see an ad for BuyDomains. I’m not talking about ads targeted to domain owners, but ads targeted to end users.
There were the skyscraper banner ad on GigaOm and CitySearch. And [...]
PushToAuction.com Helps Get Domains on Sedo Auctions
Site promotes $60 reserve domains to help get them listed in auction.
Getting a domain listed in Sedo’s domain auction can be a big win for domain owners, especially if their domains are generic. (See “When Should You Send a Sedo Offer to Auction?“)
There are two ways to get a domain listed in [...]
National A-1 Buys Pizza.com
Active domain buyer snaps up famed Pizza.com domain name.
Pizza.com, which was auctioned off for $2.6 million at Sedo in April, finally has a new home. National A-1 Advertising purchased the domain name according to updated whois records. The whois record changed to Sedo on June 28 and National A-1 either yesterday or today.
National [...]
Instant eCommerce Sites - Beyond Domain Parking
Leonard Holmes of ParkQuick.com provides a domain monetization update.
SmartName is the premium service from Name Media - the parent company of Active Audience and GoldKey. They purchased the SmartName service that was originally developed by Ari Goldberger and Larry Fischer in March of 2007. NameMedia quickly moved the parked domains to their new system that [...]
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Google Reacts to Pressure from Privacy Groups, Includes Link to Privacy Policy
Last month, privacy organizations wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asking the company to link to its privacy policy from its home page. Organizations say including the privacy link on the Google's home page is good practice and mandated by California law. On late Thursday, Google quietly changed its stance by adding a privacy link to its home page and with explanations posted on its main corporate blog and its public policy blog. More...
Google, Viacom, Privacy and Copyright Meet the Social Web
In all the recent uproar (New York Times, "Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube," Michael Helft, 4 July 2008) about the fact that Google has been forced to turn over a large pile of personally-identifiable information to Viacom as part of a copyright dispute (Opinion), there is a really interesting angle pointed out by Dan Brickley (co-creator of FOAF and general Semantic Web troublemaker)... More...
VeriSign CEO Resigns, Company Founder In Charge For Now
VeriSign's CEO, William Roper, has resigned from the company and its board. Roper has been president and CEO of VeriSign for a bit more than a year -- he was named in May 2007 after VeriSign's previous CEO, Stratton Sclavos, stepped down for undisclosed reasons. VeriSign announced today that its board elected the company's founder and first chief executive, Jim Bidzos, as interim chief executive and president and named him executive chairman. More...
Google Ordered To Release YouTube User Data to Viacom
On Wednesday night, a federal judge ruled that Google must turn over YouTube user activity which includes videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames, to the media giant, Viacom as part of a long-running copyright infringement case. Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says: "The Court's erroneous ruling is a set-back to privacy rights, and will allow Viacom to see what you are watching on YouTube. We urge Viacom to back off this overbroad request and Google to take all steps necessary to challenge this order and protect the rights of its users." However, according to CNET News, there is a heavy protective order in place that will keep individuals' personal information protected in this ruling. Update: PDF download of court order here. More...
Lithuanian Government and Corporate Websites Attacked
Hundreds of Lithuanian government and corporate Web sites were hacked and plastered with Soviet-era symbols and other digital graffiti this week in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack launched by Russian hacker groups, reports Brian Krebs of the Washington Post. According to reports, Lithuanian officials did not directly accuse Russian hackers of initiating the attacks which are said to have come from foreign computers. However, iDefense, a security intelligence firm, based in Reston, VA, as linked the attacks to nationalistic Russian hacker groups protesting a new Lithuanian law banning the display of Soviet emblems, including honors won during World War II. More...
Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail CAPTCHA In Need of Urgent Fix
It's one thing to start efficiently registering thousands of email accounts at reputable email providers by automatically breaking their CAPTCHA authentication, and entirely another to build a business model on the top of it next to the opportunity to abuse if for your own malicious purposes. Which is exactly what we have here, an underground service that's selling registered accounts at Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and the most popular Russian email providers in the thousands. More...
Post IPv6 Mandate Resulted in No Significant Increase in IPv6 Traffic
A three-year-old mandate for IPv6 usage, put into place by the White House's Office of Management and Budget, went into effect June 30 -- an order requiring all U.S. government agencies to have the ability to transmit IPv6. But passing of the deadline doesn't mean that U.S. government agencies have actually begun using IPv6 for transit, reports Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews. In fact, even with experts predicting that the current IPv4 Internet addressing scheme will be exhausted by 2010, the vast majority of all traffic in the U.S. remains IPv4. More...
Broadband Internet Adoption Stalls in United States, Says Report
Broadband growth in the United States has effectively stalled over the past five months, a possible victim of the economic slowdown, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Some 55 percent of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection, or a broadband connection, in their home, according to the report, "Home Broadband Adoption 2008." That number compares with 47 percent of adult Americans with broadband in early 2007, and 54 percent in December 2007. Hence broadband growth over the previous 12 or 13 months has dramatically tapered off. More...
ICANN's New gTLD Process: Hype and Reality
At its 32d International Junket Meeting last week, ICANN's Board approved the GNSO Council's recommendations for the eventual addition to the root of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This means that eventually, when the staff drafts, community comments upon, and Board approves implementation processes, those with deep pockets will have the opportunity to bid for new TLD strings... More...
Give Web Browsers Expiry Dates, Say Security Researchers
Computer security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM have suggested that computer software would be more secure if it were labeled with an expiration date -- similar to perishable food product. Firefox 2 is considered to be the most secure browser since 83.3% of its users worldwide are running the current version. The issue of browser security matters more these days because more and more malware is targeting Web browser vulnerabilities. Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities have been on the rise since 2000 and accounted for 89.4% of vulnerabilities reported in 2007, according to the study, which claims that a "growing percentage of these remotely exploitable vulnerabilities are associated with Web browsers." More...
Cloud Computing Services Increasingly Used by Spammers to Host Their Junk
The spam attacks which occurred this weekend and claimed to have come from Microsoft, are reported to have used Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers. Brian Krebs of Washington Post's Security Fix has investigated this issue -- from the report: "...to spammers and scammers accustomed to paying for all kinds of Web services with stolen credit cards, Amazon's service is another place to host their junk, said Suresh Ramasubramanian, head of anti-spam operations at Outblaze, a Hong Kong-based outfit that has listed all of Amazon's EC2 Internet space on its spam blacklists..." Also reported: "Anti-spam group Spamhaus also has flagged a large swath of Amazon's EC2 Internet address space on its "policy blocklist," which subscribers use to block e-mail from dynamic Internet addresses..." More...
U.S. Military Wants to Patrol the Internet
The U.S. military is looking for a contractor to patrol cyberspace, watching for warning signs of forthcoming terrorist attacks or other hostile activity on the Web. "If someone wants to blow us up, we want to know about it," Robert Hembrook, the deputy intelligence chief of the U.S. Army's Fifth Signal Command in Mannheim, Germany, told United Press International. "The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest and other contextual data relating to selected Internet domains," says the solicitation. More...
IPv6 and MEID's? Stop Choking on 32 Bits
Both the Internet and North American cellphones are choking under a 32 bit limitation and reactions from protagonists involved in both cases offer striking similarities. 1983 saw the debut of IPv4 and North American mobile telephony started in earnest with Bell's analog AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service). Responding to the need to uniquely identify the growing number of mobile devices in order to bill their owner, the FCC ordered that handsets be equipped with a unique identification number embedded on a chip. This became the 32 bit ESN... More...
Wi-Fi Alliance Now Certifying Devices for Voice Over Wi-Fi Applications
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced today its plans to make voice a part of Wi-Fi networks, and has introduced a program to certify products. According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Voice-Personal stamp of approval means a product is capable of making or handling good-quality voice calls in the home or a small office environment. Access points, wireless routers, handsets and laptops can all be tested and certified. More...
The SocialDNS Project? and Why DNS is Not the Phone Book of the Internet
In this article I will explain the motivations behind the SocialDNS Project. I will justify why the DNS system is NOT the phone book of the Internet. More concretely, DNS is not a public directory nor enables search mechanisms over meta-information related to domains. In this line, I will present the advantages of SocialDNS, a naming and directory system that aims to become the phone book of the Web. SocialDNS is NOT another alternative DNS root nor aims to replace the current DNS for resolving domain names. It complements the existing DNS to offer advanced services that are beyond the scope of the existing infrastructure for Web settings. More...
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