The Australian publication Channelnews.com.au, just declared Donald Trump as the "World’s Biggest Owner Of Domain Names". Yes according to the story, The Donald only has over 3,600 domain names. My God how did no one in the domain industry recognize Mr. Trump as owning the most domain names in the world with 3,600? In the domain industry we know there are companies that own 1 Million + … [Read more...]
DomainTools Launches PhishEye to Prevent Phishing Attacks Before They Happen
DomainTools, today announced the launch of PhishEye, asimple yet effective new security solution that helps to prevent phishing attacks before they happen. According to press release out today; "Powered by DomainTools' market-leading domain name discovery and profiling systems, PhishEye automates the process of identifying look-alike domains that spoof brand, product, or organization names. … [Read more...]
WSJ: 2 Universities Develop PREDATOR To Find Malicious Domains As Early As Registration
According to the Wall Street Journal "Researchers at Princeton and the University of California have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can detect malicious domain names." "The code scans for 22 features that are consistent with suspicious behavior, including names that are registered in bulk by the hundreds, names that are variations of the same name, random-looking names, and names … [Read more...]
MarkMonitor: Infographic The Top 20 New gTLD’s With Most Registrations by Brands
Brand protection and corporate domain name registrar Mark Monitor published an Infographic on The Top 20 New gTLD's that have the Most Defensive Brands Registrations The infographic is entitled "Navigating the World of New gTLDs" and lays out the top 20 most registered domain names in the new domain name extensions (New gTLD's) by "Brands" (Trademark holders) Here is the top 20: (Note … [Read more...]
$3 Million For TrumpTv.com? TrumpTower.Live & TrumpTowerLive.com Registered Yesterday
Yesterday we published a post about the owner of the domain name TrumpTv.com putting the domain on the market with an asking price of $3 Million. The owner went on to say that the traffic to the domain name went from "about 150,000 people to 1.3 million in just the last couple of weeks” However Alexa.com which lists sites by traffic only has TrumpTv.com at 2.7 million which doesn't mesh … [Read more...]
Top 20 New gTLD Registrants Own Over 10% of All New gTLD’s
The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own over 10% of all registered new gTLD's. According to ntldstats.com, there are 24,890,063 new gTLD registered. The top 10 registrants of new gTLD domains own 1,860,529 or about 7.5% of all new gTLD domains. The top 20 registrants of new gTLD domain names own another 679,874 new gTLD domains, meaning that the top 20 new gTLD registrants … [Read more...]
3 Years Later: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz On New gTLD’s; Who Was Right?
It was three years ago to the date that marked the epic debate between the "Domain King" Rick Schwartz and arguably the most successful domainer in history , Frank Schilling on the New gTLD's. The debate went on for almost 80 Minutes at a session held at the old TRAFFIC conference held back in October 2013 on basically "will the new gTLD's be a game changer". So the question now becomes in … [Read more...]