According to PCMag.com Google is rather peeved at Symantec for issuing fraudulent security certificates for numerous domains, including Google. This started out with just a few bad certs and then Google started looking into it themselves. Google found more bad certs than what Symantec first quoted, a few weeks later Symantec found more on their own after their own audit. From the article: So … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
Biggest New gTLD Registrants: 23 of Top 30 Are From China; 38 out of Top 50
According to ntldstats.com registrants from China are dominating the list of the top 100 Biggest New gTLD Registrants 23 of the top 30 domain names registrants are from China; 38 out of Top 50 domain names registrants are from China; and 72 of out 100 are from China. If you consider that of the 7 registrants of domain names using the new domain extensions, 3 of those are affiliated … [Read more...]
Here’s Something Scary, Namescon Early Bird Ticket Offer Ends Tomorrow On Halloween
The 2016 NamesCon Conference $399 Early Bird ticket offer expires at the end of the day tomorrow Saturday October 31. So you should take advantage of this treat because the regular price to attend the conference is $999. Namescon will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13 which is just 10 weeks away! Show organizers are promising that this 3rd annual edition of … [Read more...]
1St Day New gTLD Totals: .Live 3,470; .Studio 2,032; .SRL 223
Two new gTLD's launched into general availability (GA) yesterday .Live and .Studio both owned by Rightside (NAME) and one launched Tuesday offered by InterNetX; .SRL Including domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and those registered in the Early Access Program (EAP) where registrants paid an extra fee to register domain names before (GA); here are the totals for … [Read more...]
Another UDRP FAIL! As Panel Refuses to Transfer a Domain Used for Phishing
Another interesting UDRP where a domain name was found to be used for Phishing and fraud but the panel refuses to transfer it because the trademark wasn't identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which Complainant had rights. Yes its a head scratcher. Bridgewater Associates, LP ("Complainant"), brought a UDRP on the new gTLD bwater.site The sole panelist David E. … [Read more...]
IBM is Buying Weather.com
According to USAToday.com, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has agreed to acquire the Weather Company's data and digital properties which would include Weather.com Financial terms weren't disclosed. But the deal is valued at more than $2 billion It doesn't include Weather's primary TV asset, the Weather Channel. "In 2008, the Weather Co. was bought by an investor group -- led … [Read more...]
CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains up 1.6%
CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was … [Read more...]