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Electronic Frontier Foundation Takes Down Spoof Malware Site
November 17, 2015 @ 6:26 AMSite was spreading malware under “Pawn Storm”. It’s a bit ironic, really. Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends privacy and online freedoms, was itself spoofed in an attempt to spread malware. The organization has won control of the spoof site, ElectronicFrontierFoundation.org, through a cybersquatting complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization. The domain name was used as…
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9 Years Later, Twitter Gets Twitter.com.au
November 16, 2015 @ 5:14 PMCompany finally gets hold of Australian domain name. Twitter has won a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of the Australian domain name Twitter.com.au. The company filed the complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization. Jason Boyce registered the domain name in 2006, just as the Twitter service was in development. Twitter hadn’t bothered him about the…
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Report: All Chinese Premium Llll.org Domains Registered
November 16, 2015 @ 12:50 PMI have received a report that all Chinese Premium four letter .org domain names have been registered. Chinese Premium domain names are those without a Vowel or the letter “v” According to registrarstats.com .Org had a net gain of over 12,000 domain registrations on Sunday which is a strong number for a Sunday but many…
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.pro Now Open to All
November 16, 2015 @ 12:35 PMAfilias today made the .pro gTLD available to anyone, regardless of their professional qualifications. The previously restricted TLD was able to do so as a result of its six-week-old contract with ICANN, which loosened many of the conditions former registry RegistryPro originally agreed to when the TLD was delegated 13 years ago. Under the original…
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Drug Giant Merck Buys Dogflu.com: Had a BIN Price of $19k
November 16, 2015 @ 8:25 AMThe drug giant Merck just bought the domain name DogFlu.com. The domain name was listed in Afternic.com with a Buy It Now price of $19,000. The domain was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration according to the whois as recently as May 2015, when it switched over to privacy in August. The domain had an…
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Franks Schilling Sells 2,000 4 Letter .com for $3 Million Dollars
November 13, 2015 @ 12:20 PMFrank Schilling just announced he has sold over 2,000 4 letter .com domain names for $3 million dollars Frank also announced that all 4 letter domain names in .link and .click have sold out at the registry level ” All 4 and 5 number combinations in link and click are about to be sold or…
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VeriSign's Strong Q3 Earnings Take it to New 52-Week High
November 13, 2015 @ 12:16 PMVeriSign, Inc. reached a new 52-week high of $83.21 in yesterday’s trading session, closing a bit lower at $82.25. Shares have been rising since Oct 22 when the company released its third-quarter 2015 results.
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Rick Schwartz Sells 4 Domains for Over $1.325m & Breaks Record (Again) for 4 Number .com
November 13, 2015 @ 7:56 AMRick Schwartz added to his most amazing year, selling four more domain names this week for just over $1.325 million dollars. Rick, who is known as the Domain King, keeps showing why he owns that title. Included in this week’s sales is 6565.com which set another record for a 4 number .Com domain name. Rick…
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Stats Spin? .london Renewal at 75.4% for Sunrise, Landrush & 1st Day Domains
November 13, 2015 @ 6:14 AMThe .London registry along with Minds + Machines (LSE:MMX)) announced today that the renewal rates for .London domain names “exceeded expectations by reaching 75.4%.” However that “renewal rate is for a total of 38,389 names applied for during the Dot London combined Sunrise and Landrush period as well as the first day of General Availability,…
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Renewal Rates for New TLDs So Far
November 13, 2015 @ 5:57 AMRenewal rates seem to be in line with previous TLD launches. Dot London revealed its initial renewal rates today, reporting that 75.4% of the domain names registered during sunrise, landrush and day one of general availability were renewed. That means just shy of 29,000 of the 38,389 registrations were renewed. Renewal rates for domain names…
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