Choosing a Domain Name

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The nightmare of choosing a domain name
Econsultancy (blog)
Recently, I've been working on a naming project for an overseas client. The company is launching a new online business that will operate in a relatively crowded niche. All I have to do is think of its name. Oh, and just one more thing. The name has to ...


Domain wars: South America vs. Amazon.com
GlobalPost
LIMA, Peru — In the latest battle over coveted web domain names, there's a rumble in the jungle — pitting Amazon vs. the Amazon. Brazil and Peru are attempting to block online retailer Amazon.com Inc. from acquiring new internet domains using the ...

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Intellectual Property Domain Name Scam Changes

Intellectual Property Domain Name Scam Changes to Brand ...
A well-known intellectual property protection domain name scam that has been going on for at least 10 years has taken a new twist--the scammers are now ...

Go Daddy Blames Phishing for Sites Pushing Malware, Resets Passwords: "Here’s the full statement, courtesy of Scott Gerlach, Go Daddy’s Director of Information Security Operations: Go Daddy has detected a very small number of accounts have malicious DNS entries placed on their domain names. We have been identifying affected customers and reversing the malicious entries as we find them. Also, we’re expiring the passwords of affected customers so the threat actors cannot continue to use the accounts to spread malware. . . "

Go Daddy Websites Targeted In Ransomware Attack - Technology News - redOrbit: "According to Fraser Howard, a Principal Virus Researcher with SophosLabs, the hackers behind these attacks are “exploiting DNS by hacking the DNS records of sites, adding one or more additional subdomains with corresponding DNS entries (A records) referencing malicious IP addresses. The legitimate hostname resolves to the legitimate IP address, but the added sub-domains resolve to rogue servers.” By doing so, the criminals are able to set-up URLs that seem legitimate, potentially sneaking through security filtering systems and duping Internet surfers into believing they are harmless, he explained in a Friday blog entry. In some instances, multiple subdomains were added to each user’s account, with each of them redirecting viewers to at least one malicious IP address."

Attackers hijack the .ro domains of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, others
PCWorld (blog)
The hijacking occurred at the DNS (Domain Name System) level, with attackers modifying the DNS records for google.ro, yahoo.ro, microsoft.ro, hotmail.ro, windows.ro, kaspersky.ro and paypal.ro, according to Costin Raiu, director of the global research ...

Nominet's .uk domain proposals criticised
Internet Marketing News
Proposals for a .uk domain extension have been greeted with mixed responses from the Internet community. The UK's non-profit domain-name governing body Nominet, claim the changes are designed to help boost the economic growth of the Internet within ...

27 end user domain sales, including a buy from the Data.com seller
Domain Name Wire
The restaurant includes a section called the Chicago Sports Museum. The Best Battery Co., Inc. in Baltimore dropped the “the” from its domain name, picking up BestBattery.com for $5,500. Premium Sales Network, which owns the matching .com domain, ...

Google search outside the US - Google Groups: "If you search from google.co.uk, the initial results pages will default to global. There might appear to be a preponderance of US content, but this probably reflects the volume of US content on the global web, rather than any bias on Google's part.. . . don't forget that ".com" domain names can be registered in any country, so the presence of .com results doesn't necessarily indicate US content. In fact, any bias in the search algorithm would take into account your location, either as detected by Google from your IP address, or as recorded by you in Search Settings. If you want to exclude global content, you have the option to filter only "Pages from the UK". . . . it would be nice to set local results as default from the search home page. However, there are a couple of workarounds which might help. Once you have performed a search from google.co.uk and selected "Pages from the UK", bookmark the results page and then always search from there rather than from the search home page. Alternatively, bookmark https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB for your searching. . . ."

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BitTorrent Site Owners Fear European Domain Name Seizures

BitTorrent Site Owners Fear European Domain Name Seizures ...
By Ernesto
A new round of domain name seizures targeted at retailers of counterfeit goods has operators of BitTorrent sites worried. For the first time a ... The Pirate Bay, for example, traded in its .org domain for a Swedish .se TLD earlier this year. Others ...
TorrentFreak

Lean Domain Search integrates Sedo domain listings - Domain ...
By Andrew Allemann
Aftermarket domains debut on Lean Domain Search. I'm a fan of Lean Domain Search, which I think is one of the best domain name generators out there. Until.
Domain Name Wire

Domain Names and the First Amendment: The Latest Word « The ...
By National Law Forum
The intersection of domain names and the First Amendment is not new. Indeed, in the early days of the domain name system, courts considered the issue of whether a domain name registrar could prohibit the registration of domain names on ...
The National Law Forum

Michael Cyger Acquires SixSigma.com | Elliot's Blog
By Elliot Silver
Michael Cyger, founder of iSixSigma.com, recently acquired the SixSigma.com domain name and website. Terms of ... Owning this website on the category defining domain name will certainly bolster Cyger's presence in the competitive space.
Elliot's Blog

sql - Access update query unable to update specific records - Stack ...
By mjoshawa
The computer names may contain a dotted domain name and/or be an IP address. I need to separate out the computer name and domain name into their own columns. For example: ComputerFullName | ComputerName | Domain comp1 ...
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CyanogenMod changes domain name after $10,000 demand ...
The website for CyanogenMod transferred from a .com to a .org, following the domain holder's demand for money. The move follows the Android ROM ...

WordPress › Support » Domain Name Forwarding, help please!
Hi! I have a domain name that we purchased through our hosted wordpress.org blog -powtownderby.com. We currently have our hosting on godaddy with a ...

After getting a domain name ? - Yahoo! Answers
Ok so after seeing up and paying for a domain name i understand you need a ... After getting thedomain name, you need to get hosting from hosting company.

WordPress › Support » Change Domain name
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Squatters grab Call of Duty, GTA and Halo domain names

Squatters grab Call of Duty, GTA and Halo domain names
ComputerActive.co.uk
Some of the biggest game releases of the year have been hijacked by domain name squatters, causing confusion when people look up their favourite titles online. Games developer Activision has seen the .com domain for its Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 ...

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Audi loses fight for AudiCity.com domain name
Domain Name Wire
Car company Audi has lost a dispute at World Intellectual Property Organization over the domain name AudiCity.com. Earlier this year Audi ... The registrant argued that he registered the domain name because it is a play on “audacity”. He said he ...

37 end user domain sales
Domain Name Wire
My turkey hangover is gone, so I'm catching up from last week's end user domain name sales report. Enjoy. Afternic. Agito Medical, seller ... Greg Alexander Law Firm bought the clever domain name ContingentFees.com for $1,277. Building systems company ...

Top Rankings for Domain Keywords
Elliot's Blog (blog)
I think it's interesting to track Google search results for various keyword terms related to the domainindustry. Listed below, are the ten most frequently searched “domain name” keywords (according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool) and the top ...

How SSL Certificate Can Help To Keep Your Domain Safe
PRWire
You can do many things through the internet, especially domain name registration. For the businessperson who are doing online business, they need to know the every methods of building up their business. With the online business, cyber crimes are also ...

Google And Apple Sites Downed In Massive Pakistani DNS Hack
TechWeekEurope UK
Hackers in Pakistan have reportedly hacked the organisation managing domain name servers to redirect users to their own site, disrupting access to major services such as Gmail and eBay. Rather than serving malware to users, the hackers said they simply ...

TechWeekEurope UK

The Biggest Domain Sale Of The Year? 25.Com Gets A $1.5 Million Dollar Bid At ...
TheDomains.com
If the sale completes it will rank as the highest reported domain name sale of the year, according to DnJournal.com, which currently is showing PersonalLoans.com as the highest sale at $1 Million. The auction closes in 6 days and we will keep our eye ...

Attack on DNS sees Go Daddy websites distribute ransomware
SC Magazine UK
Domain name registrar Go Daddy distributed ransomware via its websites after domain namesettings (DNS) were hacked. According to SophosLabs, this is part of a current spate of attacks where criminals exploit DNS by hacking each sites' records of sites ...

Cheap Hosting Service with the Affordable SSL Certificate
PRWire
Website hosting means giving a place to the domain name. After registering one domain, you need to buy a place for it to keep the scripts and other things. The hosting is the place where you can keep all of the scripts and do all of the other things to ...

Creating a one-stop shop for businesses
Voxy
Fledgling New Zealand businesses will be able to secure their company name, domain name and trade mark from one search with a new product launched today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Economic Development Minister ...

Melbourne IT may sell off divisions
Delimiter
Melbourne IT is best known for its domain name, web and application hosting services, but it has also expanded into a variety of other fields over the past few years, ranging into enterprise and government IT services, online solutions for small ...

Delimiter

Cyber Monday Crackdown Hits 132 Websites
National Journal
Non-U.S. sites included operations with top-level domain-name codes associated with Belgium, Denmark, the European Union, France, Romania, and the United Kingdom. (FULL LIST: 101 U.S. Websites Blocked). Websites are seized under the authority of a ...

Domain Names and the First Amendment: The Latest Word
JD Supra (press release)
The intersection of domain names and the First Amendment is not new. Indeed, in the early days of the domain name system, courts considered the issue of whether a domain name registrar could prohibit the registration of domain names on the basis of ...

Domain name protection in Thailand
Lexology (registration)
The purpose of this article is to acquaint readers with domain name basics and general requirements for the registration of domain names using the ".co.th" country code top-level domain name (ccTLD). DOMAIN NAME BASICS. What are domain names?

GED.net Hit With UDRP & Its Not A Parked Page
TheDomains.com
The domain name GED.net is an informational site about the exam which says its been copyrighted since 2005 however the whois record is showing as a record creation date of 2011 for thedomain. According to DomainTools.com the domain was first ...

Another new TLD Site launched – for .FOOD and many others
Domain Name News
And in order to avoid having to report the trickle of the other releases, here are some of the other sites for this applicant's TLDs, which are not yet fully launched as the company informs us, since the content is not complete yet. The active sites ...

Hostgator Announces: Cyber Monday Web Hosting Deals including Domains for ...
Newstar Media
The Cyber Monday discount is even larger for Domain Name registration. Normally priced at $6.95 per year, during this one day Cyber Monday sale, domains are just $1.95 from Hostgator. If you are wondering just how cheap the Cyber Monday web hosting ...

Trouble in domain name paradise - Melville House Books
By Ariel Bogle
Trouble in domain name paradise. by Ariel Bogle. Earlier this year, MobyLives reported that ICANN, the body overseeing the expansion of domain names, was fielding hundreds of submissions from tech giants Google and Amazon, and many ...
Melville House Books

The Domain Name System - Openshift Under The Hood
By Mark Lamourine
In the previous two posts I covered the OpenShift Origin back end database and the OpenShift broker to node communications system (messaging). This time I'm going to talk about the service OpenShift Origin uses to publish user's ...
Openshift Under The Hood

How to check a name server? | Website Monitoring & Server ...
By Lily
For your website to be visible on the internet, your domain name has to be pointed to the nameservers of your hosting provider. Visitors are able to access.
Website Monitoring & Server Monitorin...

Audi Loses UDRP On AudiCity.com | TheDomains.com – Domain Blog
By Michael Berkens
A one person UDRP panel just ruled against Audi AG of Germany on the domain name audicity.com. The case seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name was “registered for over 10 years, and there is no evidence that the Respondent ...
TheDomains.com - Domain Blog

GADGET » Blog Archive » Q&A: Suggest me a good domain name, I ...
By admin
Well the website I will make is kinda related to info/knwldge/news. technology news celebrity news songs gadgets gizmos any consumer goods tips and tricks funny stuffs etc. u name it i will have it on my website. So tell me a good catchy short ...
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Network scan of domain only scanning the DC? - Spiceworks
By JustinCredible
I'm guessing it did an nslookup for diamond.trucks and it came back with the two IP addresses of the two DCs, connected to the first one and scanned OK so didn't bother trying the other DC. And it didn't realize it was a domain name because it ...
Spiceworks Community

Can you point Domain Name to different locations? - Yahoo! Answers
Hi I have been asked to set up mail accounts with a mail hosting company, my ... only with a link button on the domain site ...

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Domain Seizure and Due Process

How A Congresswoman Is Asking Reddit Users To Re-shape Copyright Laws
Fast Company
Zoe Lofgren, Chair of the House Ethics Committee, has published a thought-provoking article about the legal tactic of seizing of domain names when the owners are accused of copyright infringement. She wants to do something to prevent abuse of the ...

Fast Company

California rep asks Reddit for help drafting copyright law
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) is crowdsourcing feedback for a piece of legislation that covers domain name seizures in cases of copyright infringement. In a statement, Lofgren said the goal would be to require the government to give better notice and an ...

San Francisco Chronicle (blog

NameCheap Offering Domain Transfers for Under $1.00
Elliot's Blog (blog)
There always seem to be great deals, coupons, and special offers when you are looking to register a new domain name, but when you are trying to renew one of your domain names, renewal deals are as common as unicorns. One way to save money when it ...

UDRP Panel Turns Back Ireland Governmental Agency Bid To Grab DrivingLicence.ie...
TheDomains.com
The disputed domain name was registered by the Registrant on September 23, 2011. On March 29, 2012, the Complainant telephoned the Registrant asking if it would transfer the disputed domain name to it. The Registrant stated that the disputed domain ...

The Sudbury Star
The Sudbury Star
14, a person who has chosen to remain anonymous, registered a domain name featured on a billboard that was set up on Kathleen Street to discourage the johns who pay for prostitutes -- especially underage girls -- in the Donovan area. The Coalition to ...

.ZA Central Registry Operator Agreement signed
Bizcommunity.com
The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) and UniForum SA, signed the .ZA Central Registry Operator Agreement in Joburg earlier this week, which is the culmination of several years of research and is intended to transform the .za name space into a ...

New crowdsourced legislative proposal project on Reddit: Lofgren ...
By legalinformatics
New crowdsourced legislative proposal project on Reddit: Lofgren: Domain Name Seizures. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Zoe Lofgren is crowdsourcing the content of a U.S. federal legislative proposal, on the social media site ...
Legal Informatics Blog

domain name - Google Product Forums
domain name, GroveLiving.blogspot, 11/23/12 5:46 AM, I recently started a blog with the name ilovethegrove.blogspot.com, however, I didn't like the sound of it ...

Change domain name - Web Hosting Hub
When I purchased my hosting I put my jonesduolensphotograpy.com domain name in, well it is tied to my old hosting so I could not get it to work. I just purchased ...

Using your real name for your domain name for SEO
Until recently, if your domain name contained the keywords people searched for for your type of business—e.g., washingmachinerepair.com—you were almost ...

WordPress › Support » my first blog - change domain-name
hello, i am a new member here. i have the following question: a week ago i've published my first blog under the domain-name: http://www.hotusasoundz.com.

domain name on wrong blog « WordPress.com Forums
I purchased a domain name last night but it mapped to the wrong WordPress blog. How do I move the domain name to the correct WordPress blog? I own both ...

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Government advisory agency files domain name protests

Government advisory agency files domain name protests
ZDNet
However, GAC has listed objections for over 250 of the new domain name proposals. Dubbed the "Early warnings list", applicants are given a chance to argue their case and potentially recover some of the $185,000 fee required to request a new top-level ...

Panel Tells GTMS to GTFO with RDNH
Domain Name Wire
A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found satellite services company Global Transmission Media Solutions (GTMS) guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. GTMS filed a UDRP on the domain name GTMS.com, which was registered in 1999.

Uniregistry releases .Backfriday Promotional Site
Domain Name News
Uniregistry is the sole applicant for this TLD. The site says about the purpose of the .blackfriday ... Businesses that set up shop on the .blackfriday domain will capture the attention of shoppers and get more out of the day. When every shopping ...

Domain Name News

Watch ICANN's new TLD lottery online
Domain Name Wire
The results will be used to determine the order in which initial evaluation results are released. This will have some correlation to when you can actually get your TLD live on the web, so it's a big deal. ICANN is doing four things for the draw that I ...

Huh? Australia gives 129 GAC early warnings
Domain Name Wire
The country filed early warnings on 129 top level domain names covering everything from .baby to .weather. 'cause you know, weather is such a controversial thing. One of Australia's big peeves is that groups want to use generic terms exclusively. That ...

Millionth internet site with Czech .cz domain name registered
Radio Prague
The Czech internet reached a significant milestone this week, when the one millionth website with the country domain name ending of .cz was registered. The announcement was made by CZ.NIC, the body that administers domain names in the Czech ...

Radio Prague

Blizzard planning a new WarCraft game? Company files dispute over domain ...
games.on.net
Blizzard have filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum on domain names, asking that the domain HeroesofWarcraft.com be transferred to their control. While you might suspect the company is simply protecting what's theirs, when you combine...

games.on.net

Black Friday Deals: Get a .com domain name for $1.99
Dubai Chronicle
Black Friday Deals: Get a .com domain name for $1.99. Print Post · Black Friday Sale! $1.99 .COM! $7.99 additional .Com's from ... *Plus ICANN fee of $0.18 per domain name per year. $1.99 price for the first year of one new or transfer .COM per customer.

.CA Breaks 2 Million Domain Registrations, .CZ breaks 1 Million
Domain Name News
CA registry, the registry passed the 2 Million domain mark yesterday. However with today being a Wednesday, that number has dropped below the 2 Million mark again, as the registry drops deleted domain names in their “to be released” process once a week ...

Domain Name News

Elizabeth Taylor's Estate Wins Rights To LizTaylor.xxx
TheDomains.com
A one member UDRP panel just award the domain name LizTaylor.xxx to the The Elizabeth Taylor Trust, Interplanet Productions Limited and The Elizabeth Taylor Cosmetics Company who all brought the UDRP. The decision is more interesting that you think.

Mind Host India — Reasonable Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration ...
Melodika.net (press release)
Mind Host India is your India host with a center on service and superiority. Mind Host India is a recognized web hosting company offer individual and company internet solutions. As an India web hosting supplier, all of our servers are placed in the ...

Representative Zoe Lofgren Turns to Reddit Users for Domain Seizure Legislation
Elliot's Blog (blog)
During the last couple of years, domain name seizures have become a hot topic. Hundreds ofdomain names have been seized by the US Department of Justice and US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. You can probably picture the graphic that is ...

Microsoft's right to Windows.Ru domain confirmed
RAPSI
On April 17, the Moscow Commercial Court recognized Microsoft's right to use the trademark in thedomain name for goods of the ninth class of the International Classification of Goods and Services. Microsoft claimed the right to use the trademark in ...

php - What happens when a user types only the domain name and ...
By ninjacoder
I know that in Codeigniter, the default controller is always called if a controller is not specified in the url. Furthermore, if a function is not specified in the url, the index function of the controller will be called by default. However when I enter the ...
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GiftBasket.com domain name sells for $350,000 | ErikWestlake.com
By erikwestlake
FindYourDomain.com announced recently that it has brokered the sale of GiftBasket.com domain name for $ 350,000 .This is the second six-figure domain sale in less than a week for FindYourDomain.com . Read more… RSS ...
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Domain Name Pointing to Wrong Folder - GoDaddy.com - Go Daddy
syncretia said 3 hours, 40 minutes ago: I recently bought a new domain name “ syncretiaradio,com”. I went in to “Hosted Domains” and changed the folder to ...

Domain name not working - Google Product Forums
Domain name not working, Domain name not working, 11/19/12 2:08 AM, I ordered a domain name a week ago but it's still not working. Last time I did it for ...

Rep Zoe Lofgren Asks Reddit Users to Crowdsource Domain Name ...
Although I am considering introducing a bill on domain name seizures for infringement, that does not mean I accept the practice as legal or Constitutional.

Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP WG ...
Home » Locking of a Domain Name Subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP WG Transcript ...Filename: transcript-locking-domain-name-15nov12-en.pdf. Locking of ...

Domain Name Acquisition | SEOmoz Q&A
Answers to 'Domain Name Acquisition' at SEOmoz.

The strange case of the inte1sat domain name - Security Labs
Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeekerTM Network, Websense Security Labs recently detected an unusual domain name that we have analyzed. The domain ...

"If I Owned that Domain Name I Could Make Millions." - The Rick ...
This is what he is thinking: "You're not doing anything with that domain." followed by "If I owned thatDomain Name I could make millions." Aren't those the ...

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Big Brands using Premium Domains

List of big Brands using Premium Domains | Domain Name News ...
By Frank Michlick
Earlier today Domain Guardians released a list of big brands that are using Premium Domain names on their website. The Domain Guardians team writes about the. . .
Domain Name News (DNN)

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Australian government tops list of internet domain name complaints
The Age
Australia's government is lodging more warnings than any other government in the world against top level domain name applications, reinforcing its reputation as an over-regulator of the internet. Out of 243 "early warnings" against domain applications ...
 
The Age

Canada reaches two million .CA Internet domain name registries
DigitalJournal.com
CA domain name was established by University of British Columbia volunteers, which then became the CIRA 13 years later. The very first .CA domain name was set up in 1988 by the University of Prince Edward Island that had upei.ca. “When we started the .

DigitalJournal.com

Operator of LizTaylor.xxx Ordered to Give Up Domain Name
XBIZ
AUCKLAND — She may not be alive, but Academy award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor apparently is still kicking. An arbitration panel this month has awarded the .XXX domain nameLizTaylor.xxx to the Elizabeth Taylor Trust and related commercial ...

Groupon India has won back 'brand' name but battle for domain name groupon ...
VC Circle
World's largest group buying site Groupon has recently rebranded its Indian operations for the second time in almost a year – from Crazeal to Groupon India – and now sports the mother brand. The site crazeal.com now redirects to www.groupon.co.in, but ...

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Govt Objects to Dot Charity Domain
Pro Bono Australia
Dr Bruce Tonkin, the chief strategy officer at Melbourne IT says the Australian objections state that there is the potential to misuse the domain name in any ongoing fundraising efforts. “It appears that two entrepreneurial companies based outside ...

African Union Commission against .africa domain name
IT News Africa
The African Union Commission (AUC) and 16 governments have registered their opposition to the new .africa generic top-level domain submitted by the DotConnectAfrica trust (DCA). The African Union Commission and 16 governments have registered their ...

FindYourDomain.com Announces the Sale of High-Value Domain Names
Equities.com
Domain names that were sold in the past were not only used for start up purposes, but for resale as well. For example, ElectricCompany.com sold for $8,321 in a NameJet auction in the fall of 2011 and the domain name was later re-sold in September 2012 ...

Is Nominet's .uk proposal a tax on the digital economy?
Econsultancy (blog)
... daily basis, and will add a digital signature to prevent names being hijacked. These security measures would be supported by a trustmark to give consumers a clear sign that it was a verified domain name. ... Historically the proliferation of TLD's ...

Econsultancy (blog)

.africa Domain one step closer
MyBroadband
It added that it was aware that the AUC and 16 African governments have registered their intention to object to the only other bid for the rights to administer the proposed .africa Top Level Domain (TLD). “Conversely, no governments have opposed the ...

MyBroadband

Google plans to fix 2.5-year-old Android bug
SlashGear
The issue was presented on code.google.com: “When connected on WiFi to a network which specifies a domain name, hostnames in that domain do not resolve without appending the domain to the hostname.” After years of responses, someone from Google ...

SlashGear

Google Warns UN Treaty Could End Free And Open Internet
RedOrbit
An upcoming United Nations conference threatens the “free and open internet,” Google warned this week, saying some countries will use the meeting as an opportunity to shift control of the Internet's technical specifications and domain name system from...

RedOrbit

CrazyDomains goes down with crazy outage
iTWire
Australian web hosting company and domain name registrar, Crazy Domains, is experiencing an outage as I type, confirmed by Twitter users and not yet the company itself through any statement, but through its network status page - although Crazy Domain's ...

DuckDuckGo, Google Competitor, Says It's Getting Shut Out
Huffington Post
"It only started redirecting after we inquired about (buying the domain name)," said Weinberg. "It causes confusion." A Google spokeswoman said the company acquired On2 in 2010 and then pointed duck.com to Google's homepage, "just as we have for ...

Google attacks UN's internet treaty conference
The News International
It has been claimed some countries will try to wrest oversight of the net's technical specifications and domain name system from US bodies to an international organisation. However, the UN has said there would be consensus before any change was agreed.

Domaining Software Company, PR Powershot, Announces Domainers Black ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
PR Powershot has just announced a Black Friday special on their revolutionary domaining software for domainers and domain traders. For four days only, the company will offer people interested in domaining, website flipping and domain name trading the ...

Australia tops list of domain name complaints - Stuff
Australia's government is lodging more warnings than any other government in the world against top level domain name applications, reinforcing its reputation as an over-regulator of the internet.
Stuff.co.nz - Digital living

Australia objects to 129 new TLDs | Kiwiblog
By David Farrar
Stuff reports: Australia's government is lodging more warnings than any other government in the world against top level domain name applications, reinforcing.
Kiwiblog

Domain names - what a mess | LEWIS PR
By Michael Gonzalez
This was once again evident in the latest debate and vote this week to introduce new top level domain(TLD) names. Just like the .co.uk let's you know that you're visiting a UK site and .gov tells you it is a government organisation, these new ...
LEWIS 360° - The blog of global...

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Domain Name Registration Register a .COM, .NET or other domain name here. .... After a domain name sale completes in Go Daddy Auctions®, the seller must ...

Domain name and hosting help!? - Yahoo! Answers
I am a newbie, so I want to know about some of yo…

Transfering my domain name away from blogger - Google Product Forums
Transfering my domain name away from blogger. We have a blog using Blogger under a customdomain name purchased through Blogger. The blog material ...

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Adding email with domain name when same email address is still ...
Adding email with domain name when same email address is still active, Matthew Schery, 11/20/12 11:00 AM, I recently transferred my institution's email from a ...

Managing Domain Name Disputes: Challenges and Strategies at ...
22 November 2012. Frankfurt, Europa. Conference. Managing Domain Name Disputes: Challenges and Strategies at ADNDRC Conference 2012. 26 November ...

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The strange case of one domain name

The strange case of the inte1sat domain name - Security Labs: "Using the registration information, we found a paper authored by Command Five that indicates that the contact has been registering domains involved in APT and corporate cyber espionage attacks. The entire document is available here: http://www.commandfive.com/papers/C5_APT_SKHack.pdf   We cannot confirm that there is a problem in the Google OCR PDF caching mechanism that results in instances of . . . .  showing up in search results, particularly those of papers hosted by the FCC. We can conjecture that if there is a flaw, it is being exploited via a typo squatting technique to deliver an exploit.     Continuing our search, we discovered additional strong evidence. Going back to the beginning of the analysis, it turns out that the IP address 174.139.91.163, where . . . . is hosted, also hosts many other domains. Four especially attracted our interest. Specifically: . . . "

Blizzard files complaint over Heroes of Warcraft domain name
Joystiq
The company has also filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum in order to expedite a transfer of control for the HeroesofWarcraft.com domain name from a private owner. It's unclear what Blizz intends to do with the name, though it did ...

GiftBasket.com domain sells for $350000
Domain Name Wire
Domain name broker FindYourDomain.com is reporting its second six figure domain name sale in less than a week. Today the company announced the sale of GiftBasket.com for $350,000. Thedomain forwards to WineGiftBaskets.com. The buyer is the ...

ICANN threatens registrar for failing to respond to UDRP requests
Domain Name Wire
The latest issue appears to involve the domain name Rexrothdistributors.com, which was subject to a UDRP with Asian Doman Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC). Although I've never heard of Bargin Register before (yes, that's how it's spelled), ...

Walmart owns key domains for Black Friday union showdown
Domain Name Wire
Walmart has asked the National Labor Relations Board to help shut down potential worker protests at its stores on Black Friday. The protests are being organized by a group called Our Walmart. Our Walmart has been part of the United Food and Commercial ...

New site collates registrar stats and pricing
Domain Name Wire
Domain name registrar NameSilo has just launched a new web site that tracks domain registrar and top level domain data. RegistrarOwl.com tracks domain name stats ... It would be great if you could see pricing by TLD. Despite a few kinks to work out, I ...

Marchex posts domain jobs: domain sales, inventory analyst
Domain Name Wire
Responsible for managing and maintaining the Marchex-owned domain portfolio and providing related internal and external support for the domain inventory management department. Both positions are in Seattle. Given all of the low hanging fruit in Marchex ...

ICANN's 11th-Hour Domain Name Trademark Policy Negotiations: The Good ...
CircleID
The IPC-BC's proposal to block Internet domain name registrations based on trademarks was unequivocally rejected by the meeting participants. Given its absence of any support outside the IPC-BC proponents, the participants did not include the blocking ...

Domain names: expression that deserves protection
Global Voices Online
This process is managed by the Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS associates site names (google.com, for instance) with those long and complex numeric addresses and allows users to connect a domain name to an IP address — that which marks the ...

Representative Zoe Lofgren Shows Her Internet Savvy: Ask Reddit for Internet ...
The Mary Sue
The more feasible way to mitigate the possibility of abusing it and other bills that would allowdomain name seizure would be to create a bill modifying the ways in which the U.S. government could wield domain name seizure in general. From her site ...

Ask Shama: Should we switch to a .com?
Upstart (blog)
We own a .net domain name, and have a pretty robust website. When we first started the business, the .com version was not available. On our website we have hundreds of pages all indexed by Google, and we rank well in the search engines. Recently, we ...

Barnes & Thornburg has strengthened its DC office with the addition of a new ...
The BLT: Blog of Legal Times (blog)
"Our clients will also be well served by his technical experience and extensive background in domain name disputes." In an interview, Weinstein said, "My prior platform was one of the premiere IP boutiques in the country, and although I'm sad to leave ...

Media Options Brokering SSL.com
Elliot's Blog (blog)
The SSL market is very competitive, and having an exact match domain name like this can be an advantage. Essentially, it's already a proven business, although I don't know the marketing costs that were required to drive the revenue. I wasn't told why ...

FairWinds Partners Crowns Cyber Monday Champion
PR Newswire (press release)
20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the holiday shopping season fast approaching, FairWinds Partners, the leading domain name strategy consultancy, has named Target Corporation and Vistaprint as its first-ever Cyber Monday ...

Get Paid Faster With Go Daddy Premium Domain Listing Sales
Elliot's Blog (blog)
Previously, if you sold a domain name via Go Daddy, you had to wait up to 45 days to receive payment, which came by check in the mail. I am use to receiving payment within less than a week when I sell domain names elsewhere, and 45 days seems pretty ...

eNom Gives Customers an Introduction to New TLDs
Elliot's Blog (blog)
For many of these companies, educating consumers starts at the registrar level, as small business owners may opt to register a shorter gTLD as opposed to a longer tail, hyphenated, abbreviated, or some other type of .com domain name that is available ...

How to protect your reputation online
NEWS.com.au
DOMAIN NAME – be the master of your domains. Problem: The .com.au domain for your name has been snapped up by your Google twin. Solution: You can register the other versions such as .net.au or .com, or use a middle name or initial and get a .com.au.

Reddit Is Literally Writing Our Laws Now
The Atlantic Wire
Lofgren's law will legislate how domain name seizures are handled in the United States, specifically in the cases of copyright infringement, accusations of libel and obscenity. The new law would apply to cases like that of Kim ... Lofgren went on to ...

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren courts Reddit users for a crowdsourced copyright ...
VentureBeat
In both sting operations, the federal government took ownership of the domain namethese organizations were using, which essentially shut them down (at least temporarily). The practice of seizing domain names is highly criticized by online communities ...

VentureBeat

40 Domain APIs: DNSimple, DomainTools and RoboWhois
By Wendell Santos
DNS Made Easy API: Internet domain hosting service. DNSimple API: Domain management service.Domain API: Domain registry and whois lookup service. Domainbox API: Reselling of domain names service. Domainr API: Domain name ...
ProgrammableWeb

The Law According To Reddit: Crowdsourcing Policy Advice - Reason
By Rachel Moran
Although I am considering introducing a bill on domain name seizures for infringement, that does not mean I accept the practice as legal or Constitutional. Nonetheless, since these seizure actions are occurring, I thought it worthwhile to ...
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FindYourDomain.com Brokers GiftBasket.com For $350,000 ...
By Michael Berkens
The domain name GiftBasket.com just sold for $350000. The domain name was brokered by FindYourDomain.com, who sold Feng.com last week for $250000. Domaintools.com shows thedomain name GiftBasket.com being owned earlier ...
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COM ================ Domain name: IT-LIABILITY.COM Created On: 9/20/2012 1:56:10 PM Expires On: 9/20/2013 1:56:10 PM Last Updated On: 9/20/2012 1:56:10 PM Domain Status: Registrant [PAK12092095339-1]: Falco Arguello ...
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How to Recover Expired Domain Names at Godaddy – PCDIY!
By Terry Lin
Just because I forgot to renew my domain name and it was expired.. It's too bad for my careless mistake, the webiste was down for 3 weeks. My doamin is registered at Godaddy, the biggestdomain registrar on Internet. For taking my website ...
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Congresswoman turns to Reddit for domain name seizure bill | The ...
Those who visit the websites now only see a banner that states the domain name has been seized by U.S. law enforcement. The banner links to an anti-piracy ...

Lofgren crowdsources domain-name seizure bill - Political Blotter ...
“During SOPA I saw firsthand the Reddit community's strong dedication to free expression. Because of that dedication, I thought I would attempt an experiment: ...

Domain Name Sitting In Pending Status - GoDaddy.com - Go Daddy
Last Tuesday, I bought a domain name, went in to “Hosted Domains” in my hosting control center, and pointed the domain at a folder in my hosting directory.

Adobe Community: Issue with domain name
My domain name has been registred and set to the dns servers that I have got here. However thedomain could not be activated as the dns servers apparently ...

Change domain name registration and hosting from Verio to Word ...
My domain name (durgama.com) is registered with Verio, and the current web site with this URL is hosted by Verio. Another version of this site has been ...

Never register a domain name with your hosting provider - weblog ...
A smart developer I respect recently asked my why I didn't just register my domain names through my hosting provider. I hoped he was joking, that he knew why ...

how to put username after domain name | CodeIgniter Forums
I saw some website deal/groupon can put username after domain name example :www.xyz.com/abc and in my website I want allow some users register ...

Do not register a domain name with your hosting provider | Hacker ...
You could reduce this blog post down to "Don't register a domain name with your brother-in-law... if your brother in law is a fucking asshole who will try to rip you ...

BUG?: ip / domain name - Plex Forums
Oke, so i have a domain pointed to my ip address. when my girlfriend is using the web interface using the ip address it works fine. But when using t...

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Domain Name Seizures - Feds shut down more than 700 websites

Domain Name Seizures Feds shut down more than 700 websites - 

Adweek
"While I do not support copyright infringement, these domain name seizures have resulted in the removal of websites containing lawful content, without notice or a hearing for the website owner," Lofgren said in a statement. In two instances, against the hip-hop blog Dajaz1 and sports Streaming siteRojadirecta, the government was forced to drop its case after it realized it lacked evidence to support a charge of copyright infringement ...

Nets-related domain name redirects users to Knicks homepage
New York Post
The owner of the domain name remains unclear, but several months back, the URL brought you to the homepage of Cyber Mesa, a telecommunications company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Deadspin reported. Speculation arose online that the true ...

New York Post

How to Go About Domain Name Registration
PRWire
Most companies that offer hosting also provide domain name registration and web designing services. So you do not need to go anywhere else once you reach them. Some of them also offer free registration of domain names if you take the entire package.

At Formula 1 race, a brilliant use of a domain name
Domain Name Wire
Formula 1 racing returned to United States' soil yesterday with a race at the new Circuit of the Americas in Austin. Living in Austin, I've heard quite a bit about the race, the investors, and the building of the track over the past couple years. It's ...

Cupid in legal fight for French domain name
Herald Scotland
According to legal papers seen by The Herald, Cupid has been challenged by continental rival Cupidon over the Scottish company's use of the Cupidon.com domain name it bought 18 months ago. The result of the case, which is being heard by the Tribunal ...

.CO Internet Offers Perks to Startups With a .CO Domain
Web Host Industry Review
Net sponsored a Startup Weekend in Orlando. To sign up, members enter their email address and existing .co domain name. If they don't have a .co domain, they can register through the i.go.cosite. The membership program is in beta, and is available to ...

New Model for Monetizing/Leasing Long Tail Domains?
Domain Name News
If the client buys a package that costs $29.99 monthly, the domain seller will throw in the domain name. The terms and conditions don't appear to show if the buyer gets ownership of the domain name at all or is just subscribing for a perpetual lease.

Domain Name News

Reading Phillies get a name change
Bizjournals.com
The big reveal was usurped by published reports earlier in the week that the franchise had registered the “www.readingfightinphils.com” domain name along with other variations of the new moniker. The team also announced its new name will be highlighted ...

Google Takes on Tiny Doogle
ABC News (blog)
He is so encouraged by the show of interest to persevere in a potential legal battle to save his business and domain name, www.doogle.co.za. Van Der Merwe said he received a letter last month from attorneys at Google threatening to sue him for ...

ABC News (blog)

How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service
Ars Technica
"I bought the Goatse domain from Sedo.com," Bob told Ars when asked how he came to possess the name. It was a late-night purchase, and the desire to own the site stemmed from repeated exposure to it years earlier in university computer labs. The cost ...

Court: 1st Amendment Protects Domain Names
Opposing Views
As with many new issues involving the Internet, the proper method of analysis to determine whether a domain name is commercial speech or a more vigorously protected form of speech is res nova. A domain name, which in itself could qualify as ordinary ...

6 Ways Amazon Cloud Helped Obama Win
InformationWeek
The long list of Amazon cloud services the Obama team tapped into included compute power and storage, Domain Name Service, distributed queue messaging, NoSQL and relational database services, bulk emailer services, virtual private cloud services, ...

Brunei: a majestic kingdom of rich experiences
eTurboNews
When asked about the benefits of marketing with .travel, a Brunei Tourism representative stated, “Having a .travel domain represents a convenient and easy way to identify genuine travel entities. It should be a must for those in the industry to adopt...

eTurboNews

Taking the 'Co' Out of .Co.Uk - Nominet's High-Risk Plan to Rebrand UK Domains
Business 2 Community
Consumers are why the internet makes up a massive 8.3% of the UK's GDP, and 93% of all UK domain names (.org.uk, .me.uk etc) use .co.uk. The .co.uk name is internationally recognised, it's Europe's second most popular extension behind Germany's .de ...

Modria's Fairness Engine: Justice On Demand
InformationWeek
Rule compares Modria to the dispute resolution service providers that hear domain name complaints under ICANN's rules. The way ICANN has resolved domain name disputes, however, has not been without criticism. ICANN's process allows complainants to ...

Italian ISP Aruba.it Prepares For European Expansion
TechWeekEurope UK
At the turn of the millennium, the company expanded its offering to include dial-up Internet, domain name registration, web hosting and email accounts under the newname – Aruba.it. In 2003, Aruba opened its first data centre in Arezzo. Shortly after ...
 
TechWeekEurope UK

TripAdvisor: Helping travelers plan
CBS News
RJ: How did you choose the name "TripAdvisor?" What were some of the other names you considered? SK: We wanted something descriptive, but all the interesting domainnames were taken. We started life as TripResearch.com, but changed to the friendlier...

CBS News

Using your real name for your domain name for SEO
By Outside Source Design
Until recently, if your domain name contained the keywords people searched for for your type of business—e.g., washingmachinerepair.com—you were almost guaranteed to be on the first page of Google search results. However, Google no ...
Outside Source Design

Change default language depending domain name | CodeIgniter ...
Hi, I have 1 hosting and 2 domains. Depending the domain name I want to load a default language but I can't. When I enter with the 2 differents domains CI load the same default language. Is there a way to change de default language?
CodeIgniter Forums

Domaining MBA Monday: Selling Domains To End-Users, Part Two ...
By Morgan
An inbound inquiry takes place when an end-user wants to buy your domain name and contacts you directly typically through the email located in your WHOIS information or on any contact form located on the site itself. Before going-into detail ...
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Weather Site Gets $3.5M Judgment: Defendants Sued for ...
By admin
Under the 13-year-old ACPA, a company or individual can face statutory penalties of $1,000 to $100,000 per violation if a domain name is registered, used or trafficked in bad faith, and is confusingly similar with someone else's trademark.
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Give the Gift of Premium Web Services
By Whitson Gordon
They may not know it, but a personalized domain name can come in extremely handy, and will only get more important as time goes on. They can post their online CV or resume there, redirect it to their Twitter or Facebook page, and further ...
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Zappy's Proven Process to Extract Maximum Value from Domain ...
By Michael Cyger
Not only is it the largest domain name forum in the world, but it is the best. You can learn aboutdomain names and the industry, buy and sell domain names, talk about domain name news, and meet other domainers like you. Register today for ...
DomainSherpa

Similarities between a Good Bloggers and Mothers
By Joe Clark
So should you when it comes to choosing a domain name for your blog. Choose the domain namewisely because you can not rename your website later. Make sure that your domain name should be related to the stuff you are going to place ...
The ComLuv Network

Home.Co Sells On Sedo For $24,999 | TheDomains.com – Domain ...
By Michael Berkens
The domain name Home.Co just sold on on Sedo.com for $24999 The domain was part of the .Co auction for Start ups There are 11 applications for the new gTLD .home including by Godaddy.com, Google, Frank Schillings Uniregistry and ...
TheDomains.com - Domain Blog

Cannot use my domain name in a new web hosting account ...
Hello. I am trying to delete my domain name from one of my web hosting accounts but the delete option is not enabled for the domain in the hosted sites list. I.
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Cannot register custom domain name to blogger. Error 14 - Google ...
Cannot register custom domain name to blogger. Error 14, Typijay, 11/18/12 1:29 PM, "We have not been able to verify your authority to this domain. Error 14.
productforums.google.com/d/topic/blogger/86Ldrox_Yzk

How to change domain name - Web Hosting Hub
How to change domain name. ... Hi, Yesterday I bought a domain name, but i need to change itsname, is it possible without any extra charge ? thank you. Inés ...
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