In a blog post, Microsoft announced that starting today in the U.S., by using BitPay, the world’s leading bitcoin payment processor, you can trade-in bitcoin – at current market value — and add it to your Microsoft account. Those funds can then be used to purchase content in the Windows Store, or in stores that house Xbox Games, Xbox Music or Xbox Video. “For us, this is about giving people … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
TM Holder Of Beauty Lab Loses URDP Bid The Grab The Domain MyBeautyLab.com: Too Generic
The owner of the trademark for BeautyLab just lost its attempt to grab the domain name TheBeautyLab.com The sole UDRP panelist Brigitte Joppich bascially found that although the Complainant had valid trademarks registered before the domain name, including in the country where the domain holder operates, the term Beauty Lab was too generic to enjoy any protection in the UDRP process. Here are … [Read more...]
1st Day New gTLD Totals .immo 5,274; .Business 3,292; .Software 3,068; .Network 3,055; .Pizza 1,272; .Auction 1,056
6 New gTLD's went into their first day of General Availability (GA) yesterday where they could be registered on a first come, first served basis. Including all domain names registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and in the Early Access Period (EAP) for those who were willing to pay a one time fee for early access more than 17,000 domain names were registered across the six … [Read more...]
New gTLD Pass 3.5 Million But How Many Are Third Party Paid Registrations? Here’s The Answer
The number of new gTLD registrations just crossed the 3.5 million mark according to ntldstats.com The question is how many of these 3.5 Million new gTLD domain names are paid for registrations made by third parties unrelated to the registry So we are basically backing out any known free registrations, any domain name registered to the registry itself or to parties related to the registry in … [Read more...]
Domain Investor Chad Folkening Interviewed By Inc.com
Inc.com just published an interview with Domain investor Chad Folkening entitled "Domain Pro Spills Secrets for Scoring a Prize URL" The subtitle of the story is "Chad Folkening has sold domain names to Google, Cisco, and Amazon. Here's how--and when--he thinks you should buy yours" The story was written by Christine Lagorio, who also authored the story the Inc.com published several days ago … [Read more...]
Which Domains Stand the Strongest Against Phishing Attacks?
On the Afilias blog there was a post by Ram Mohan on extensions and phishing attacks. He took a look at research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Key Findings 1. Apple became the world’s most-phished brand in 2014 2. The introduction of new top-level domains did not have an immediate major impact on phishing 3. Chinese phishers were responsible for 85% of … [Read more...]
Extensions Launching Today .Business, .Network, .Immo, .Auction, .Pizza
Several new gTLD's go into general availability today where they can be registered on a first come first serve basis and many have quite a few registrations after its Sunrise period which was for trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register the domain during the Early Access Period (EAP) .Business has 506 registrations which is more registrations that 17 fully launched, new … [Read more...]