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Cel-e-brate v6, Come On!
With IPv6 World Launch coming up it’s worth pausing to consider the collective efforts of the Internet industry in enabling and deploying an essential evolutionary technology ...
Hosters: Is Your Platform Being Used to Launch DDoS Attacks?
As anyone who’s been in the DDoS attack trenches knows, large multi-gigabit attacks have become more prevalent over the last few years. For many organizations, it’s become ...
Measuring IPv6 at the Network and the Customer Level
George Michaelson , APNIC’s Senior Research and Development Scientist recently visited the RIPE NCC to collaborate on various research projects with his RIR colleagues. IPv6 ...
May/15/12 UK Registrar Domainmonster.com Unveils Full SedoMLS Support
Newest SedoMLS Premium partner brings more distribution for names listed at Sedo Sedo is excited to have leading registrar Domainmonster.com join the SedoMLS Premium network! As well ...
Where the action is on NameJet 5/15/12
HybridDomainer.com : By Ary Kenyach NameJet action list for May 15, 2012. These names must be back ordered by 8 pm Pacific. Not a lot of action today, I like events.tv the best. ...
Samsung files Lunge, Forge, Rivet, Wield, Mission, Victory smartphone trademarks
Fusible.com : Samsung is at it again, this time filing six different trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for yet to be announced smartphones. ...
Here’s what law enforcement wants you to do before registering a domain…
Domain Name Wire : Registering a domain name might become a lot more time intensive in the future. Negotiations between ICANN and registrars to amend the registrar accreditation ...
Bari Meyerson latest to change jobs within domain industry
Domain Name Wire : Meyerson lands at eNom. Once people discover the domain industry and all it has to offer, it’s hard to move to any other industry. The latest move comes courtesy ...
May/15/12 Meet the Team – May 2012
Get to know Thies Lindenthal Name: Thies Lindenthal Official Title: Product Manager – Domain Pricing Office: Boston Q: When did you join the Sedo team, and how did you discover ...
May/15/12 The Brief Case – May 2012
ICANNs New gTLD Program Comes Under New Scrutiny by Chase Marshall :: Sedo Legal Staff The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently come under new ...
Bari’s Back! Ex Moniker Exec Bari Meyerson Takes Business Development Position at eNom
DNJournal : Bari Meyerson, a popular domain industry veteran who was a fixture at Moniker.com before leaving that registrar last December, is returning to the trenches in a business ...
Bari Meyerson Hired By Enom
Elliot Silver : I have some nice news to report this afternoon. Bari Meyerson, my former Account Executive at Moniker, has been hired by Enom as a Senior Business Development ...
BankAds Acquires OnlineBanks.com For Undiclosed Amount
DNSR.com : BankAds, a provider of advertising solutions for the banking and credit card industry has announced that they recently acquired OnlineBanks.com for an undisclosed amount. ...
Tuesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 5-15-12
If you missed the article/advertisement about the history of Mama.com you need to check it out. It’s the kind of purchase that I dream of. The dream where you buy an asset, sell ...
.mobi, .biz, .co, .xxx, RIP, .COM, .TV, .ME, PARTY HARDY!
Morning Folks!! Numbers have always been my road map. Numbers cut through all the motives, agendas and bullshit and hopes and all the rest. Numbers don’t lie people do. I am guilty ...
TopDrops.com Email Subscription is Ready!
DomainMichael.com : Hi guys, if you have an account on TopDrops.com, you should have received your first daily Top 10 TopDrops email. I finally got around to finishing the email ...
ICANN: Relaunch of the entire com/net/org namespace feasible
DomainGang.com : ICANN might be facing problems launching the gTLD namespace, what with the TAS Labs product being meticulously repaired – but the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...
ICANN names $25m gTLD objector
French international law expert Alain Pellet has been appointed Independent Objector for the first round of ICANN’s new generic top-level domain program. Pellet has worked as a law ...
The Difference Between Exact And Broad Match Search Volume (Video)
MorganLinton.com : At the beginning of this month I did a post about the difference between exact and broad match search volume. The post was inspired by all the readers who submitted ...
Review: Twitter self service advertising tool
Domain Name Wire : A great way to boost your social presence, but light on analytics. I have a confession to make: I’ve been buying Twitter followers. 87 of them to date. It ...
StocktonGolf.com Lost In A UDRP Based Off A Common Law Trademark To Golfer Dave Stockton
The Domains : A one member UDRP panel has just awarded a pretty generic domain name StocktonGolf.com to StocktonEnterprises, Inc. a company owned and operated by professional ...
With 3 of His 5 Daughters Graduating This Week Marc Ostrofsky is Going Plane Crazy
DNJournal : You will have to forgive domain industry pioneer and best selling author Marc Ostrofsky if he seems a bit disoriented this week. He is crisscrossing the company to ...
Guest Post: Chad Fisher
Elliot Silver : Chad Fisher helps build and promote web sites in a number of different verticals, everything from finding affordable housing to saving money on insurance. He works ...
Like I said, TAS problems doom Digital Archery
Domain Name Wire : IPC questions ICANN’s ability to execute digital archery. Digital archery is doomed. The clever way ICANN plans to “batch” applications for new top level ...
Secure a .PRO domain for $2.99 for a limited time!
Encirca.com : After May 30, .PRO prices will climb back up to the standard price of $14.95, but until then you can secure a .PRO domain for $2.99. And, in addition, you can transfer ...
On The Same Week of Its IPO, Facebook Files a UDRP To Gain Control Of Facebook.info
The Domains : Facebook, Inc. has just filed a UDRP to gain control of Facebook.info The domain name Facebook.info was 1st registered in 2004 The domain is not parked but rather ...
Domainer Alton Flanders Beats Back UDRP ON CondomWorld.com
The Domains : Alton Flanders represented by John Berryhill, just beat back a UDRP on his domain name CondomWorld.com The complaint was bought by Nicholas Perez who claimed he ...
Intellectual Property Constituency Asks ICANN to Reconsider Digital Archery Batching
The Domains : In memo sent by head of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC), Steve Metalitz On May 9th, which asks ICANN to reconsider its ‘digital archery’ ...
Apple Grabs iPhone5.com Domain Name
DotWeekly : Apple Inc. has successfully obtained the iPhone5.com domain name through a WIPO claim they recently filed. The domain name is now registered under the brand protection ...
Faux Coke Porn Site Symbolizes Cybersquatting Concerns
Coca-Cola Co. (KO) ( KO ) had to win a complaint at a United Nations agency last year to get control of an adult website called pornforacoke.com. Online name theft is called cybersquatting ...
Pope Benedict in .XXX pro-Islam cybersquat drama
A Turkish cybersquatter has registered at least a dozen variants of Pope Benedict’s name as .xxx internet domains and is using them to promote Islam. Cybersquatted sites including ...
10 Things I’m Noticing in My Business That May or May Not Help You
I’m been running a business (or helping run) for the last 15 plus years. My viewpoints are different than many others but here are 10 things I’d thought I’d share that I’ve ...
.secure applicant claims NCC stole her idea
Domain Security Company CEO Mary Iqbal claims that NCC Group took many of her ideas for a high-security .secure top-level domain following unproductive investment talks. Iqbal is also ...
My First Domain Name Had a Hyphen
For the life of me, I couldn’t recall the first domain name I ever registered. A few people have asked me over the years, and I had a vague idea, but I couldn’t recall it and didn’t ...
Today’s Picks Of Websites Up For Auction Around the Net
For those of you looking to diversify or gain some monthly income then buying aged, income producing websites can be a good move. Throughout each week I’m going to look ...
Happy 25th Birthday .CA
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the dot-CA domain name for Canada. On Monday May 14 th , twenty five years ago, the management of the dot-CA country code domain name was officially ...
Monday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 5-14-12
Pretty good day today for domain pickups. I will be putting in a couple bids for myself today. I have been more of a buyer than a seller lately but that’s only because I think ...
The Front Door, The Back Door, The Side Door. The History of Doors in Stores!
Morning Folks!! If you have no sense of history it is hard to know where the future is going. I look to history for almost every new event and apply a test to see if it is consistent ...
Olympics wastes more money on ICANN nonsense
International Olympic Committee lawyers have lodged an official appeal of ICANN’s latest decision to not grant it extra-extra special new gTLD protection. The IOC last week filed ...
Communications and the London Olympics
Communications will be one of the most critical areas during the London Olympic Games. The industry is working to establish shared access networks — would it not be nice if they ...
Sunday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 5-13-12
Had a great day yesterday. Nursery was packed and my daughter’s school won the Middle School State Championship in track and field. I always felt that winning a few state championships ...
Keep This in Mind When Judging a Registry’s Success
I often hear and read critical and/or snide comments about various non-.com domain registries and how many are presumed to be failures. Some people seem to think that if a registry ...
Thank You EuroDNS, and Welcome Stevan Lieberman and Nokta Domains
I want to take a moment to thank EuroDNS for advertising on my blog for almost a year. The company continued to renew its banner advertisement monthly for quite some time, and I appreciate ...
Saturday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 5-12-12
Hope everyone has a nice weekend planned. I mentioned yesterday I was going to take the day off and enjoy the State Championships in Track for Middle School and it didn’t disappoint. ...
BusinessWeek Gives Domain Name Advice and Artemis (.secure) Reveals its Business Model
NameTalent.com : An article titled When Should Domain Names Match Company Names? was published this morning by Karen E. Klein on Bloomberg BusinessWeek Small Business Advice Section. ...
Google Wins Big in Domains Dispute
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has just won a big battle to recover a whooping 763 domain names, in a dispute that it had filed against domain infringement. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has ...
US grabs more domain names, $1.4 million from online counterfeit operations
By Layer 8 Created May 11 2012 – 12:31pm The Department of Justice today said it snatched up more than $1.5 million from the distribution of counterfeit sports apparel and ...
Happens Every Day: Guy Buys Two Domains From Me on Sedo for $1400 and Lets Them Expire
DomainShane.com : Things like this don’t surprise me any more but I still have to shake my head. I was doing my daily run through of the expiring auctions at Godaddy and noticed ...
Asking Price vs Sales Price: Season.com, Bosnia.com, Leo.com, IQN.com
AccidentalDomainer.com : I recognized a few names in DNJournal’s sales charts in recent weeks, and dug through my emails to see how they had been listed previously in the domain ...
Whois Review Team Issues Scathing Report On ICANN: “ICANN The Corporation Has Failed To Meet Expe…
The Domains : The WHOIS Review Team just issued a 92 page report “to review the extent to which ICANN’s WHOIS policy and to see whether ICANN’s implementation are effective, ...
