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The Domains
UDRP Round Up: iWantValium.com; Viagra.Ninja; Minnesota.Life; Landshark.Beer; Playstation.co
A few UDRP/URS case caught my eye over the last day or so. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG the makers of Valium filed a UDRP on iwantvalium.com Doesn’t everyone? The domain name was just registered back in June Pfizer Inc just won two separate UDRP on ...
Discussion
UDRP Round Up: iWantValium.com; Viagra.Ninja; Minnesota.Life; Landshark.Beer; Playstation.co
A few UDRP/URS case caught my eye over the last day or so. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG the makers of Valium filed a UDRP on iwantvalium.com Doesn’t everyone? The domain name was just registered back in June Pfizer Inc just won two separate UDRP on ...
Discussion
December 18, 2014, 12:06 am
Domain Name Wire
Johnson & Johnson pays $3.1M for .Baby, CREA $3.4M for .MLS
.Baby and .MLS new TLDs awarded. Two new top level domain names contention sets were resolved at auction today. The auction with six participants ended with a lower price than the one with just two. Consumer products company Johnson & Johnson won...
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Johnson & Johnson pays $3.1M for .Baby, CREA $3.4M for .MLS
.Baby and .MLS new TLDs awarded. Two new top level domain names contention sets were resolved at auction today. The auction with six participants ended with a lower price than the one with just two. Consumer products company Johnson & Johnson won...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 11:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Last week’s end user domain name sales at Sedo
Some end user sales…and some probable end user sales. Sedo handled 573 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. This week’s end user list is shorter than usual, but that doesn’t mean there were...
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Last week’s end user domain name sales at Sedo
Some end user sales…and some probable end user sales. Sedo handled 573 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. This week’s end user list is shorter than usual, but that doesn’t mean there were...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 8:50 pm
The Domains
Godaddy Sued For $50 Million By Russian Millionaire Konstantin Malofeev
According to Courthousenews.com, GoDaddy.com has been sued for $50 million by A Russian millionaire claiming Godaddy defamed him by hosting a number of websites that accuse him of fraud. Konstantin Malofeev sued GoDaddy, Domains by Proxy and John Doe...
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Godaddy Sued For $50 Million By Russian Millionaire Konstantin Malofeev
According to Courthousenews.com, GoDaddy.com has been sued for $50 million by A Russian millionaire claiming Godaddy defamed him by hosting a number of websites that accuse him of fraud. Konstantin Malofeev sued GoDaddy, Domains by Proxy and John Doe...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 5:18 pm
The Domains
.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available LLL/NNN/One Word Domains
.Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The ...
Discussion
.Website Collision Domains Give A Boost In Registrations: Here Are Available LLL/NNN/One Word Domains
.Website which had its ICANN collision lists freed up recently has seen a nice bounce in daily registrations. Like a bunch of other TLDs, the spike in registrations appears to have come on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday registrations. The ...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 4:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Could new TLDs have an SEO benefit in the future?
Only if it improves search results. Using a new top level domain name instead of a .com or other gTLD does not give you a benefit in Google search results. Ditto for using a .com instead of a new TLD. They’re basically the same. That’s wh...
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Could new TLDs have an SEO benefit in the future?
Only if it improves search results. Using a new top level domain name instead of a .com or other gTLD does not give you a benefit in Google search results. Ditto for using a .com instead of a new TLD. They’re basically the same. That’s wh...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 4:53 pm
Domain Name News
ICANN systems compromised through phishing attack
A number of ICANN’s staff email accounts have been compromised by a phishing attack, which lead to administrative passwords to other systems being exposed as well, as Necraft reports. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICA...
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ICANN systems compromised through phishing attack
A number of ICANN’s staff email accounts have been compromised by a phishing attack, which lead to administrative passwords to other systems being exposed as well, as Necraft reports. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICA...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN hacked, zone file system among victims
Hackers phished ICANN employees to gain access to systems. ICANN revealed today that its systems were compromised by a phishing attack. The attack involved emails designed to look like they came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to member...
Discussion
ICANN hacked, zone file system among victims
Hackers phished ICANN employees to gain access to systems. ICANN revealed today that its systems were compromised by a phishing attack. The attack involved emails designed to look like they came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to member...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 1:39 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Wednesday , December 17th
It’s official, Namescon has become THE domain conference. Congrats to everyone at Namescon for merging with DomainFest. Not sure you could call it a merger or an absorbing, but either way DomainFest will live on. It was inevitable t...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Wednesday , December 17th
It’s official, Namescon has become THE domain conference. Congrats to everyone at Namescon for merging with DomainFest. Not sure you could call it a merger or an absorbing, but either way DomainFest will live on. It was inevitable t...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 11:45 am
The Domains
ICANN Believes They Had A Spear Phishing Attack in November
ICANN is looking into an attack on their systems that took place back in November, they have posted an announcement on their website and have said to stay tuned for further updates by checking back. ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into our ...
Discussion
ICANN Believes They Had A Spear Phishing Attack in November
ICANN is looking into an attack on their systems that took place back in November, they have posted an announcement on their website and have said to stay tuned for further updates by checking back. ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into our ...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 5:57 am
