Domain Names
12 June 2013
DotConnectAfrica Suffers Final Blow In Bid For .AFRICA
The .africa bid by ZA Central Registry received a boost this week when a controversial rival application from DotConnectAfrica (DCA) was rejected by the Governmental Advisory Committee, with DCA being invited to withdraw its application, reports MyBroadband.co.za.
07 June 2013
ICANN Announces Top-Level Executive Changes To Bolster Operational Effectiveness
ICANN yesterday announced a number of changes that the organisation says will bolster its operational effectiveness. The most prominent of these changes is the move of Akram Atallah, currently Chief Operating Officer (COO), who will become division President of the Generic Domains Division, a newly created branch that will focus on generic domain operations, domain name industry engagement and web services for the community.
06 June 2013
Why Are Brands Abandoning Their gTLD Applications? Marketing Daily
There have been a number of brands withdrawing their applications for new generic Top Level Domains in recent weeks and months, and why is perplexing. To have gone to all the effort of applying, and then withdrawing, to some, makes no sense.
05 June 2013
AusRegistry Improves Security For .AU Domain Names
Security for .au domain names just got a whole lot better with the introduction of a new security measure that will provide an added level of protection against website attacks and hijacking, as well as unintended and self-inflicted technical mistakes.
04 June 2013
Business Unsure About New gTLDs But Awareness Strong Among Larger Companies
"Businesses are unclear on how to really approach the new gTLD programme and are as yet undecided on how they should position themselves," said Ben Anderson of NetNames, commenting on new research commissioned by Deloitte into general awareness of the new gTLD programme and the action those businesses are taking.
01 June 2013
.TK Rockets To Largest ccTLD, Second Largest TLD
The .TK ccTLD, one of the three TLDs with the most malicious domain registrations and whose domains are mostly given away for free, has rocketed into first place among ccTLDs with 16.7 million active registrations according to the latest CENTR DomainWire report.
28 May 2013
Guardian News Withdraws gTLD Applications In Apparent Deal Over .COM Domain
Last week the Goldstein Report reported Britain's Guardian newspaper was rebranding itself online, and will soon transfer its domain name for the newspaper from guardian.co.uk to theguardian.com.
24 May 2013
Guardian Newspaper Rebrands Itself Online Under .COM
The Guardian newspaper, one of the world's most popular online, and the only non-.com domain suffix in the top ten Google News list of digital news outlets, has announced this week it is moving its global branding online from a .co.uk domain to .com. The move reinforces the importance of a .com domain for global brands.
16 May 2013
Swedish Prosecutors Ask Court For Right To Seize Pirate Bay Domains
Swedish prosecutors are attempting to close down The Pirate Bay through having the domain names piratebay.se and thepiratebay.se deregistered.
14 May 2013
Leading Domain Registrars Hacked
Leading domain name registrars Name.com, Melbourne IT, Moniker and Xinnet have admitted they were hacked in a brazen cyberattack last week, with the four companies believed to be responsible for around six million domain name registrations.
11 May 2013
.MELBOURNE One Of 300 Passing ICANN's Initial Evaluation
The first Australian generic Top Level Domain application has passed its initial evaluation. On Friday ICANN said '.melbourne' has passed its technical and financial evaluations, with the number passing this stage now reaching 300, and being the next step in getting the gTLD up and running.
08 May 2013
DNS What? Celebrating 30 Years of a Technology That You Use Every Day and Don't Know It by Paul Mockapetris Huffington Post
When the domain name system (DNS) was developed in 1983 it was viewed as a way of "making it possible for people to create and use domain names for the things they wanted to access instead of numerical addresses," writes Paul Mockapetris, Chief Scientist and Chairman, Board at Nominum.
03 May 2013
ICANN's Global Empire Spreads To Latin America With Engagement Centre
ICANN has announced they will be opening an engagement centre in Montevideo, Uruguay, as it opens offices in strategic locations around the globe.
29 April 2013
Australian Cat Ladies Teach Christians A Lesson In Protecting Domains
It's a lesson in registering the key domain names relating to your business. Down under a trio of feminists from Melbourne calling themselves the Australian Cat Ladies have registered the domain name AustralianChristianLobby.org after realising the ACL, which has registered both acl.org.au and australianchristianlobby.org, had failed to register it.
26 April 2013
Verisign Revenues Boom In Q1, 2013 With 2M New .COM/.NET Registrations
Verisign Revenues Boom In Q1, 2013 With 2M New .COM/.NET Registrations
Verisign reported revenues of $236 million for the first quarter of 2013 as 1.99 million new .com and .net domain name registrations were added to the base, an increase of 15.5 percent in revenues and 5.5 percent in registrations when compared to the same quarter in 2012.
Maliciously Registered Domains Decline As 4 in 5 Phishing Domains In .COM, .TK and .INFO
A new phishing survey released by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) at its conference in Buenos Aires this week reveals that phishers are breaking into hosting providers with unprecedented success, using these facilities to launch mass phishing attacks.
25 April 2013
ICANN Formally Announces Opening Of Istanbul Hub
ICANN has formally announced they will be opening a hub office in Turkey's largest city Istanbul their President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé announced today.
23 April 2013
University of Houston Law Center professor sees Internet domain name expansion as major test
This summer, a number of new domain names will likely start appearing on the Web. Generic names such as .apple, .home, .app, .vegas or .music could join such stalwarts as .com, .net and .org. ICANN, a non-profit organization charged with administering the system, has been considering the expansion for several years. University of Houston Law Center professor Jacqueline D. Lipton spoke on the topic last weekend at the Second Annual International Intellectual Property Law Scholar's Roundtable at the University of San Diego. Lipton sees the new system as a significant test in the development of innovative systems for global governance of commerce and free speech.
19 April 2013
Why the Internet of Things Needs IPv6 Government Technology
Ever wondered why the move to IPv6 from IPv4 is so important? The Government Technology website has a good story explaining why.
16 April 2013
Boston Marathon Blasts See Cybersquatters Exploit Tragedy
The two bombs exploding seconds apart, creating a bloody chaotic scene near the finish line of the Boston Marathon today has seen cybersquatters quickly exploit the tragedy.
10 April 2013
Betting on Bitcoins: A New Way To Pay, or Just Here Today? by Cara Giaimo
If you don't have one eye on bitcoins already, you will soon. For weeks, the digital currency has been skyrocketing in dollar value and in cultural cache. Owners are watching the trendlines, wondering whether to buy or sell. Economists, tech nerds and opinionated citizens are debating whether the bubble will burst. Some people are still wondering what the heck they are (if you're one of those, never fear -- an intro is below!). For companies, though, the conversation isn't speculative -- figuring out whether or not to accept bitcoins as payment is an important business decision. Our office is currently embroiled in a debate over this very issue, and we decided to lay out the arguments for and against.
08 April 2013
Global Domain Name Registrations Surpass Quarter Billion: Verisign
Total global domain name registrations passed the quarter billion mark in the final quarter of 2012, reaching 252 million, an increase of 26.6 million or 11.8 percent for the year, according to the latest Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief. For the fourth quarter, registrations grew by 6.1 million or 2.5 percent.
ICANN's Empire Spreads To China With "Global Engagement Office"
It may have closed down offices such as in Sydney in somewhat controversial circumstances, but that hasn't stopped ICANN spreading its wings. At the ICANN meeting currently underway in Beijing, China, the President and CEO Fadi Chehadé announced the organisation will open its first new global engagement office in Beijing.
04 April 2013
US Advertising Body Rants Again Against Coming New gTLDs
They ignored the planning for the introduction of new gTLDs for years. But the Association of National Advertisers has been shaken from its torpor in the last year or so, constantly complaining and saying the end of the world will be nigh if more gTLDs are introduced.
03 April 2013
Afilias Research Finds Consumers Unaware of Coming gTLDs. So What?
Afilias has released the results of research into consumer attitudes towards the coming new gTLDs that will begin launching later this year. The research finds that only one in five consumers in the US and the UK were aware of them. But the response should be so what? How can consumers be expected to know about them?
