HA.com just released the 42 domain names it will be auctioning off live on April 19th in San Francisco. Bidding is now open at: http://domains.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=1230 Here is the press release we just received from Aron Meystedt of HA.com: Quick.com | This is one of the first 100 domain names ever registered on the Internet. Original registration in 1987! It’s also a perfect … [Read more...]
Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand Protection”
Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network Solutions are receiving notices that they are being given a free .Design domain, matching a domain name owned by the customer in a Network Solutions account, under the premise of "Brand Protection" using the "C" word many times; yes … [Read more...]
89 of The Top 100 New gTLD Domain Holders Are From China
We have chatted about the growing influence of Chinese domain investors in the domain industry before, however today I checked out ntldstats.com to review the top 100 largest holders of new gTLD domain names and found 89 of the top 100 domain holders are from China. That number gets even more dramatic when you take into account that of the 11 non-Chinese largest new gTLD domain holders in the … [Read more...]
Spamhaus Publishes List of “10 Worst Top Level Domains”
Spamhaus.org published today a list of the "10 Worst Top Level Domains" The list is "not a list of the worst TLDs in quantity, several other TLDs have far more spam domains, but they also have vastly more non-spam domains. " "This list shows the ratio of domains seen by the systems at Spamhaus versus the domains our systems profile as spamming or being used for botnet or malware … [Read more...]
.XYZ Holding Exclusive Premium Auction of 150 Domains With West.Cn including 1.xyz
According to a press release we just received, ".XYZ is proud to announce that we have partnered with West.cn for a second time to host an exclusive .xyz premium name auction between March 16 - March 31." "Over 150 .xyz domains will be auctioned off at no reserve. "Many of these domains have never been registered before, since they were originally variably priced premium names, which renewed … [Read more...]
Verisign: .Com Passes 126 Million Domains For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com domains in the Domain Name Base passed 126 million. Verisign, the registry for the .Com defines the Domain Name Base as: "The domain name base is the active zone plus the number of domain names that are registered but not configured for use in the respective Top-Level Domain zone file plus the number of domain names that are in a client or server … [Read more...]
Report: Verisign Gets Temporary Extension To Operate .Gov Registry
According to FCW.com, the General Services Administration of the United States has awarded Verisign (VRSN) a $2.1 million bridge contract to continue as the registry provider for the top-level .gov Internet domain. The current contract was set to expire this month, however according to the FCW.com story, the bridge contract was awarded in November 2015, and publicly released yesterday. The … [Read more...]