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The Domains
Reuters: US Government Creating Agency To Deal With Cybersecurity Threats
According to Reuters citing a story in the The Washington Post, the U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, which will be called “The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) According to the story...
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Reuters: US Government Creating Agency To Deal With Cybersecurity Threats
According to Reuters citing a story in the The Washington Post, the U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, which will be called “The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) According to the story...
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February 10, 2015, 9:11 pm
The Domains
Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC & Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of The Apprentice As Celebrity Judges: #InternetOfficial
Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner and one of the stars of Shark Tank, joins Panel of Judges for the #Intern...
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Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC & Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of The Apprentice As Celebrity Judges: #InternetOfficial
Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner and one of the stars of Shark Tank, joins Panel of Judges for the #Intern...
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February 10, 2015, 7:57 pm
The Domains
Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook
Rediff.com published an article on using Facebook as a way to transfer money, kind of the way we currently use Paypal. The service is currently being provided by two Indian banks, Kotak Mahindra and ICICI. The article makes clear this is for tech sav...
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Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook
Rediff.com published an article on using Facebook as a way to transfer money, kind of the way we currently use Paypal. The service is currently being provided by two Indian banks, Kotak Mahindra and ICICI. The article makes clear this is for tech sav...
Discussion
February 10, 2015, 5:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet Expired Domain Report: CarAds.com, MyDealer.com and more
Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. My first thought when seeing NameJet’s $5.4k auction for CarAds.com was of a road luxuriously winding along sea cliffs and the convertible traversing it filmed from a hel...
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NameJet Expired Domain Report: CarAds.com, MyDealer.com and more
Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. My first thought when seeing NameJet’s $5.4k auction for CarAds.com was of a road luxuriously winding along sea cliffs and the convertible traversing it filmed from a hel...
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February 10, 2015, 3:58 pm
The Domains
.LGBT Launched Today: Meet The first 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites
Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organ...
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.LGBT Launched Today: Meet The first 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites
Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organ...
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February 10, 2015, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain registrars should add security check for transfers to eName
Registrar has become a haven for stolen domain names. Over the weekend I received an email from the (former) owner of ShadesDaddy.com, an online sunglasses seller. He said his domain name had been stolen. I didn’t have to read on to make a pred...
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Domain registrars should add security check for transfers to eName
Registrar has become a haven for stolen domain names. Over the weekend I received an email from the (former) owner of ShadesDaddy.com, an online sunglasses seller. He said his domain name had been stolen. I didn’t have to read on to make a pred...
Discussion
February 10, 2015, 2:43 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2015
If you didn’t see yesterday’s DomainSherpa show called “Eat Our Own Dogfood” you’ll see we are doing a show where we each analyze each other’s portfolio. Our best names, our worst names, and some of our...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, Feb 10th, 2015
If you didn’t see yesterday’s DomainSherpa show called “Eat Our Own Dogfood” you’ll see we are doing a show where we each analyze each other’s portfolio. Our best names, our worst names, and some of our...
Discussion
February 10, 2015, 11:55 am
The Domains
Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks Transfer of Domain
In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations.com, for cybersquatting under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U...
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Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks Transfer of Domain
In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations.com, for cybersquatting under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U...
Discussion
February 10, 2015, 6:39 am
The Domains
Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on Three Letter .Com NAE.com
Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on Three Letter .Com domain name NAE.com. The domain has been owned by the company since at least 2007. When it comes to trademarks filed in the USPTO there is no shortage for NAE National Automotive Expert...
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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on Three Letter .Com NAE.com
Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on Three Letter .Com domain name NAE.com. The domain has been owned by the company since at least 2007. When it comes to trademarks filed in the USPTO there is no shortage for NAE National Automotive Expert...
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February 9, 2015, 11:14 pm
The Domains
Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But…
Architelos.com, a issued today a report on the state of domain name abuse in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) space in 2014, the first full year when many new gTLDs were launched and operated. This report focuses on the detec...
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Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But…
Architelos.com, a issued today a report on the state of domain name abuse in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) space in 2014, the first full year when many new gTLDs were launched and operated. This report focuses on the detec...
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February 9, 2015, 10:40 pm
