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The Pirate Bay has survived for almost nine years, despite being one of the most hunted "pirate" sites out there. It's surprising in fact, when many other smaller BitTorrent sites were shut down through various means, the most notorious of which being domain name seizure.Because generic domain names, .com, .org,... |
1 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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The biggest change in domain-name history is about to get underway, despite plenty of critics. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is starting the application period for new top-level domains. This will allow any company or organization, with enough money, to request custom TLDs such as .a... |
12 January 2012
07:32 GMT |
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The year is barely underway and the first million dollar domain sale has already been announced. Dudu.com was sold for $1 million, €769,000 to a Dubai company named, quite obviously, DUDU Communications.
The company operates a social networking site that comes with built-in translation, enabling anyone in the ... |
5 January 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Companies looking to buy some chunk of IP addresses were in luck as the now defunct US bookseller Borders offered a stack of 65,536 IP addresses, a full /16 block of IPv4 addresses, for auction.
Cerner, a healthcare software consulting company, bought the whole lot for $12, €8.93 a pop, for a total of $786,432,... |
6 December 2011
09:15 GMT |
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Typosquatting is an issue for any big website out there. And it doesn't really get any bigger than YouTube. Google is now going after the owner of several domains with names similar to YouTube which lead to a survey scam page.
Youtbe.com, Youtub.com, Youtue.com, Youube.com and Yutube.com are all registered to t... |
24 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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The main reason why people choose a blogging platform rather than setting up their own WordPress install, hosting, domain name and so on, is precisely because they don't want to or don't know how to set up their own WordPress, hosting, domain name. But even if you choose a hosted platform such as Blogger, W... |
18 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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For a while, .co domains have been positioned as the next best thing, or the next big thing after .com. Belonging to Columbia and only recently becoming available, .co domains have proven quite popular with some companies, both Amazon and Google have acquired single-letter .co domains.But one domain name in particula... |
15 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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There are now close to 100 million .com domains in the world. To date, 98 million .com domain names have been registered and more added each day. At the current rate, the 100 million mark should be reached by the end of the year.
Pingdom, based on Registrar Stats data, has put up a small chart displaying the number ... |
21 October 2011
13:21 GMT |
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The rather new .co country code top level domain is gaining quite a bit of popularity. There have been plenty of other ccTLDs that have become popular as international domains, but this one is being marketed as an alternative to .com by Columbia, which owns it, itself.This poses an interesting question, does Google t... |
6 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Several single-letter domain names were up for grabs in the UK, auctioned off by Nominet, which oversees the country's internet infrastructure. But most of the domains available didn't fetch large sums, the average selling price was £39,000, or $60,700 (€45,300).
What's more, Google was o... |
3 October 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Go Daddy, the domain registrar and web hosting company, has announced that it is entering a partnership with several private equity companies which will now own a stake in the company. Contrary to some initial reports, Go Daddy was not acquired, Bob Parsons, CEO and founder, will retain a stake in the company.
"[G... |
4 July 2011
05:52 GMT |
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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has given the go-ahead on plans to create generic top level domain names which would enable brands, organizations, governments and so on to create their own TLDs, in the likes of .nyc, .canon, .sports and so on.The idea is to enable a lot more flexibilit... |
20 June 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Twitter is finally making a move trying to get a hold of the twiter.com a domain name very similar to its own twitter.com but filled with scammy-looking offers.The company has filed a dispute with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), trying to take over the domain to stop it from tricking its potentia... |
13 June 2011
05:51 GMT |
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A bunch of very attractive domain names are becoming available in the UK as Nominet, the country's internet registry, has opened up applications for bids. As expected, the one-letter and two-letter domain names have attracted quite a lot of interest and are expected to fetch a fair bit of money.Among the compani... |
9 June 2011
10:58 GMT |
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During the first quarter of 2011, 4.5 million new domain names have been added. According to a report from VeriSign, there are now 209.8 million registered domains on the internet. The .com top level domain name continued to dominate, followed by .de and .net."The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth in th... |
31 May 2011
11:50 GMT |
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When Facebook revealed its revamped messaging feature, complete with email functionality, it also enabled any Facebook user to get an @facebook.com email address. The problem was this had previously been used internally for employees.
Facebook solution was to acquire fb.com to be used internally from then on. As ... |
12 January 2011
10:36 GMT |
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized more than 70 domain names in a move to fight online file-sharing and counterfeiting. Users visiting any of the domains are redirected to a page notifying them that domains have been seized by US authorities.TorrentFreak, a blog dedicated to all things BitTorrent-relat... |
29 November 2010
06:37 GMT |
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According to a report from German antivirus vendor Avira, the number of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) used to distribute malware has increased significantly during October.The biggest deviation was registered for .ru with a 73.92% increase compared to September. Despite this, .com remains the most abused TL... |
15 November 2010
10:54 GMT |
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Over the weekend, GoDaddy, the world largest domain name registrar experimented with offering a .co domain as the default option on the homepage. GoDaddy has always had .com as the default TLD and has now reverted to it after testing .co for a period."The Go Daddy test is exciting. Permanent? Not yet," Juan Calle, CE... |
15 November 2010
04:14 GMT |
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In a season where everything went wrong for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, their technical team forgot to renew the official site's domain name at the worst time possible.Dallas is hosting this year's Superbowl, so everybody was expecting the team to be the first one ever to play the NFL supreme game on its... |
10 November 2010
03:59 GMT |
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Over the previous week, there was a lot of talk about the .ly domain name, which is popular with URL shorteners. After one such service, vb.ly, got its domain registration removed, many were wondering what it meant for others, especially bit.ly, the largest such service. Now NIC.ly, the registry for the .ly ccTLD use... |
11 October 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Go Daddy, the world's largest domain name register, is reportedly for sale for the nice round sum of at least $1 billion. The company, Go Daddy Inc. is privately owned and is now shopping itself around to potential buyers, venture capital investors.According to the Wall Street Journal, Go Daddy has hired Qatalys... |
13 September 2010
14:20 GMT |
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The internationalization of top level domain names continues with the approval of Chinese-character ccTLDs (country code top level domains) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). A total of five new domain names have been approved; China and Taiwan get two each and Hong Kon... |
28 June 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Flickr is the most popular photo-sharing service in the world, if you don’t count Facebook as one, and is probably one of the most misspelled domains on earth as well. Its trend-setting name, Flickr, may be pronounced ‘flicker,’ but its domain name is flickr.com. In fact, Yahoo, which owns Flickr, ... |
15 June 2010
06:52 GMT |
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The Internet is bracing itself for a “historic“ change. Or, at least, that’s what the ICANN, the global authority on Internet domain names, calls it. The first country code domain names using non-Latin characters are now live, the organization has announced. The IDN ccTLDs (internationalized domain ... |
6 May 2010
08:47 GMT |
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It didn't take long for Google's decision to drop censorship in China to be followed by others, like Google Co-founder Sergey Brin has been urging. GoDaddy, the world's biggest domain-name register, has announced that it will no longer be offering .cn domain names. The company is trying to set itself a... |
25 March 2010
09:08 GMT |
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Russian authorities have responded to critics as being a safe heaven for hackers and introduced stricter measures to registering .RU domain names. The increased security measures will force persons and entrepreneurs to submit copies of their passport or their state certificate if they're a legal entity.These cha... |
23 March 2010
11:17 GMT |
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Canon, the well-known Japanese manufacturer of imaging and optical devices, is on its way to becoming the first company to apply for a customized, top-level domain name. The company is saying it has begun the acquisition process of the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .canon, though it may be at least a year until it ... |
17 March 2010
10:18 GMT |
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The .com domain name is 25 years old today, with March 15, 1985 marking the date of the first registered domain Symbolics.com. Today, there are tens of millions of .com domain names, but things didn't move too fast at the very beginning. In fact, for the full year of 1985, only six .com domains were registered a... |
15 March 2010
08:13 GMT |
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Celebrating the French registrar’s tenth anniversary, the company is giving away 55,000 promotional codes in the following ten days. These codes can be employed by old or new clients and will allow users to acquire domain names for free from Gandi and some of their partners.Gandi will start offering codes at 14... |
1 March 2010
08:36 GMT |
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China's web isn't getting more open any time soon, even with Google's ultimatum, but the officials are now backing off on a restrictive measure implemented last month, which prevented individuals inside China from registering .cn domains. Regulators are now saying they will open up registrations once ... |
19 January 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Google is very protective of its name, logo and all the things that are closely associated with its brand. Having such powerful branding, which is actually about to undergo some major changes, this makes a lot of sense. In some cases, though, it may get a little overzealous and things may not go the way it intended,... |
30 December 2009
05:37 GMT |
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More often than not, the right domain name can make or break a business. Having the best domain won't help a horrible service too much and a good one will do alright even with a less-than-inspired domain but, on the whole, it can be a great boon to a websites success. This is why domain names sometimes fetch hu... |
27 November 2009
06:11 GMT |
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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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