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Three individuals were charged on November 19 for their role in an attack, which involved hijacking the comcast.net domain name and redirecting its traffic to a rogue website. According to the indictment, the defendants used social engineering in order to obtain information that facilitated their plans to alter the d... |
21 November 2009
05:49 GMT |
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Unsurprisingly, ICANN has approved the plan to introduce support for domain names in non-Latin characters. The move is billed as the biggest change to how the Internet works since its inception forty years ago but it is far from a done deal yet. The support will be rolled out in several stages and if everything goes ... |
31 October 2009
07:49 GMT |
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An ICANN representative has led reporters to believe that, till the end of the week, the committee might approve the usage of non-Latin characters in standard web addresses. The change, if approved, will not only be the biggest face-lift given to the Internet, but will also be the biggest technical modification done ... |
26 October 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Top domain name sales may have seen a slump this year but there have been some that fetched nice round sums. Toys.com was sold for $5.1 million, Candy.com for a round $3 million but the latest transaction puts these to shame as Insure.com has been sold for $16 million, one of the biggest figures in domain name sales ... |
12 October 2009
06:42 GMT |
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The Internet may seem like a pretty wild and open place with no one party having too much control over it. Still, there are many asking for even more freedom especially when it comes to the domain name allocation system currently run by ICANN. Though an independent organization, ICANN still has some ties with the US ... |
25 September 2009
09:52 GMT |
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The tumbling economy hadn't initially stopped people and businesses from snatching up an increasing number of domain names. But it looks like the downturn has finally caught up with this market as well, as, despite the fact that domain registrations are at an all-time high, the growth rate may be slowing down es... |
23 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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As countries from Europe continue to have a better Internet adoption rate among its population numbers, the business world will have to adapt to the changes in technology and consider launching local products for the EU region more and more. Acting on this market trend and on its internal statistics analysis, the Go ... |
18 September 2009
11:03 GMT |
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In a decision issued on September 7, 2009, the National Arbitration Forum decided to transfer ownership rights over the googlewebmarketing.com domain name from Absolutee Corp. Ltd. c/o DNS Manager to Google Inc. After all domain name disputes have been moved by ICANN to the National Arbitration Forum (there is also t... |
11 September 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Media giant Disney and food-packager Nestle have won cases against different persons that registered domain names similar to their trademarks and used them in bad faith to acquire monetary profit. The domain names are to be transferred as soon as possible to the complainants. Disney, the largest entertainment compan... |
7 September 2009
04:09 GMT |
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A lot happened on the domain name marketplace last week. Sedo and other domain name marketplaces continue to turn big profit month by month. Last week's crown jewel was the Call.com domain name, which Live Current Media was able to sell on Sedo to an undisclosed buyer for about $1.1 million.This domain has seen ... |
2 September 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Yahoo has filed a complaint against Spanish blogger David Blanco Ramos for the bad faith registration of the Yahoo.tel domain name. The domain was registered during the launch of the .tel domain name, Yahoo being the first major company trying to acquire its domain back from third-party registrations.Other major comp... |
31 August 2009
04:32 GMT |
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MasterCard International Incorporated of Purchase, also known simply as Master Card, filed at the end of May 2009 a complaint at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Jose Carlos Bisognin Panzenhagen from Porto Alegre, Brazil. After judging procedures, the WIPO Arbitration Center concluded that ... |
29 August 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Missouri-based Internet investment company XF.com Investmens has announced that it has recently acquired the first-ever domain name registered on a DNS server. XF.com Investmens, an Internet real-estate company (as it likes to call itself), bought from Symbolics Inc. for an undisclosed sum the ownership rights over t... |
29 August 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Sedo, an online domain name marketplace, has launched a new account management tool called Price Suggestion Tool. This service is available for all Sedo members to help them evaluate and price their domain names. Users can simply enter their account's domain management zone, select a domain name that they own an... |
27 August 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Cybersquatting can be a big business for the shady parties that engage in it but for one company it may not have been such a wise move. A federal California court has upheld a previous ruling that awarded $33.15 million in damages to the US telecommunications company Verizon to be paid by a company that registered hu... |
27 August 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Yahoo has a clear goal ahead of it, at least that's what it keeps saying, focusing on content, its homepage and better integration of its services. Moving towards content creation seems like a smart move – AOL has been doing it quite successfully – and one of Yahoo's hottest properties in this a... |
11 August 2009
05:43 GMT |
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The US government isn't going to let ICANN go without a fight. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit company set up to handle top-level domain names. Founded in 1998, it's an independent organization but still has strong ties with various US government bodies through a Join... |
6 August 2009
11:22 GMT |
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Famous sports car maker Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. was pleased to find out that WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) ruled positive on two complaints made by the Italian-based company regarding trademark disputes on two domain names.The cases dealt with the registration and bad faith usage of the lambor... |
6 August 2009
09:15 GMT |
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Currently holding about 11.5 million domain names for sale, Sedo has reported two huge sales this week. The domain name Jesus.net was sold for $124,337, while in a previous sale, Server.com was sold for a huge $770,000. Before the sale, Jesus.net was redirecting traffic towards Christ.com, since after that all v... |
5 August 2009
12:24 GMT |
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New Jersey authorities have decided to charge Daniel Gonclaves with several domain theft-related felonies. The 25-year-old computer geek is accused of stealing the P2P.com domain name from Marc Ostrofsky, Lesli and Albert Angel in 2006, which he later sold to NBA superstar Mark Madsen for 110,000 dollars. Beside... |
5 August 2009
10:44 GMT |
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In a data breach notification sent to the Office of Privacy Protection in Wisconsin, as required by law, CheckFree estimates that as much as 160,000 customers might have been affected in early December, when their domain names were hijacked. We previously reported that at least two domain names belonging to the popul... |
17 December 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Two domain names belonging to the e-bill payment service CheckFree have been hijacked by an Estern European cybercriminal gang. The DNS records for the domains have been altered to point to a malware distribution server. CheckFree is one of the largest services that provide individuals with the ability to pay utility... |
4 December 2008
05:09 GMT |
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If you are planning to have a website and to use a free web hosting service to get on the Internet you have many options to choose from, because there are many providers that will give you a free web hosting account. But, first of all you will need a domain name. In case you do not have a domain name yet, besides t... |
26 September 2007
10:25 GMT |
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When you decide to have a website on Internet, first you must register a domain name. A domain name is a text corresponding to an IP address that makes your Internet presence unique. The domain name will represent the address of your website, such as www.yourdomainname.com. The suffix, .com (in this case) defines the... |
13 September 2007
11:07 GMT |
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