Namecheap.com, in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight For The Future (FFTF), launched the website Respectourprivacy.com to allow people to file a comment with ICANN letting them know they object to the proposed rule that would greatly restrict the use of privacy or proxy services on whois records of domain names. ICANN public comment period closes on July 7th … [Read more...]
.XYZ Buys The New gTLD .Security From Symantec
According to a post on its Corporate blog last night .XYZ announced that it acquired the new gTLD .Security "Coming to you in late-2015, .Security will be the domain for security-related entities, professionals, and all companies that would like a secure and authoritative online presence." .Security was originally applied for by three companies, Defender Security Company … [Read more...]
Information-Age.com: Will Google Switch To .Google & .YouTube By The End Of The Year
Information-Age.com just published a story written by Russell Haworth, the CEO of Nominet which runs the .UK registry about the Branded Internet. The story talks about the beginning of brands using their new gTLD domain names in lieu of their .com's starting with Barclays recent announcement of the launch of branded domain names .barclays and .barclaycard. Here is the sentence that … [Read more...]
Who Doesn’t Suck? Kim Kardashian; Justin Bieber; Twitter, FoxNews, CNN Pass On $2,500 .Sucks Domains
While some of the biggest brands in Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Technology and Pop Culture registered some 3,400 new gTLD's in the new .sucks domain extension, in the Sunrise period for up to $2,499 for each domain, there were some glaring misses of some of the most criticized, controversial and most talked about companies, celebrities and public figures. There are not domain … [Read more...]
.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise
The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499, with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price, then Vox … [Read more...]
Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for a trademark last week. The UDRP was filed by Foundation Fitness LLC which filed a trademark on the term "Stages" way back on June 12, … [Read more...]
Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a "Focus on Phishing" for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD's and Legacy TLD's like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abuse but still only 11K reports out of 118 Million or so domain names. There were only 143 Phishing reports for May for all new gTLD's out of over 6 million … [Read more...]