Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza, doctor, dentist and then says LA, of course LA has been available and is a cctld. This inclusion is why some think that the repurposed country … [Read more...]
Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New gTLD Domains & Contention Auctions
Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium domain names that may potentially be for sale via this new offering could include names like Night.Club, Tour.London, Hotels.NYC, Divorce.Law, … [Read more...]
Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars Into Rightside
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the planned spin-off of Rightside as an independent publicly traded company. "The filing marks an important step … [Read more...]
RPG Life Sciences Ltd. of Mumbai Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
RPG Life Sciences Ltd. of Mumbai, India, represented by Anand & Anand, India has just been found Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain RpgLife.com by a one member UDRP Panel. The domain name was registered back on October 28, 2005 Despite generating some $47 Million in revenue in 2012-2013 the company tried to grab the domain name away from its owner without … [Read more...]
Domaining.com & TheDomains.com Launch The New gTLD Ticker
Domaining.com and TheDomains.com have a new look this morning as they launched the new gTLD ticker on the top of each site. The new gTLD ticker is an advertising program, the brain child of Francois Carrillo, Founder and C.E.O of Cybertonic which operates Domaining.com who is in charge of making the ticker work Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com is in charge of sales and client relations for … [Read more...]
.CN Landrush exceeds 50 Million Yuan
NiceNic.net out with another interesting piece of news, the .CN Landrush auctions of previous reserved domains has generated over 50 Million Yuan/RMB. That equates to over $8.2 million They posted today: As of Jan 12th, 2014, the open auction of previously-reserved .CN domain names by CNNIC entered into heating-up period, and the total price of recent auctions already exceeded 50 million … [Read more...]
.PW surprisingly pretty popular with phishers in China
NiceNic.net put out a report that looked at phishing activity in China, very few .cn sites are involved in phishing and surprisingly there was a decent number of .pw sites being used. Anti-Phishing Alliance of China(APAC) announced "December 2013 Anti-Phishing Sites Brief Report". According to the report: APAC totally dealt with 168,835 phishing sites over the years and in Dec 2013, … [Read more...]