We just received a pretty amusing email from Bathrooms.com and its all about typo's. In this case "to highlight Brits mistakenly misspelling and searching for ‘bathroom sweets’ instead of ‘bathroom suites’, Bathrooms.com have partnered with Choccywoccydoodah to sell the world’s most indulgent bathroom, a life-size, 100% Belgian chocolate bathroom suite on BathroomSweets.com." "Online … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Vertical Axis Beats Back UDRP On Ritchey.com
Vertical Axis Inc. represented by Ari and Jason at ESQwire.com, just beat back a UDRP on the domain name Ritchey.com The complaint was brought by Ritchey Design, Inc. of Nevada which is a "company specializing in bicycle components established in 1974 which has registrations for RITCHEY in the US, Canada and the European Community for bicycle components and distributes in over 40 countries, … [Read more...]
Leading This Weeks New gTLD’s .Fund, Here Are The Taken Domains
According to ntldstats.com, .Fund is leading the other new gTLD's that go launch into general availability on Wednesday which includes .investments, .Cash and.Tax in terms of domain registrations through Sunrise and EAP Here are some of the more interesting .Fund registrations taken in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and through the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an … [Read more...]
ntldstats: 80% Of All New gTLD’s Are Parked & Has Stats For Each Extension; .Buzz Has The Least
ntldstats.com, has added parking stats to its system, both overall and by each new gTLD extension. Overall ntldstats says that just over 80% of all new gTLD domain names are parked. Last week Verisign announced as of June 29th only 3% of all new gTLD resolved to "business websites" which I assume by definition excludes personal websites and which may account for the difference. Parked … [Read more...]
The .ID is here and it is not cheap
Today is independence day in Indonesia, and on this day the shorter .id extension is now available. The extension is not cheap and comes with some restrictions. From 101Domain.com Copy of Indonesian business certificate (NPWP and TDP/SIUP) and a copy of the contact person's KTP (Indonesian Identity Card). If you are a foreign company, please select Trustee Service at checkout. Domain naming … [Read more...]
New Go Daddy Phishing Email Going Around – Be Careful
New Go Daddy phishing email going around so be careful. I have not received it but others have. Tip of the cap to Namepros member Tom Carl for posting the email he received. Most veterans would not fall for this but there are many newer domainers and business owners who may not know what to look for. Email subject: Status Alert: Your account contains more than 9740 directories. Dear Valued … [Read more...]
Popular Bitcoin Websites Being Imitated by Phishers
Carolyn Moritz wrote an article on VPN Creative about impersonators using Bitcoin domains that are similar to existing websites for phishing attempts. It seems some of these websites were actually trying to generate advertising revenue and using the strong newsletter numbers of the real Bitcoin websites. From the article: Bitcoin news website CryptoCoinNews (CCN) was impersonated in a phishing … [Read more...]