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Phishing in New gTLDs Up 1,000% But .com Still The Worst
February 20, 2017 @ 3:56 AMThe .com domain is still the runaway leader TLD for phishing, with new gTLDs still being used for a tiny minority of attacks, according to new research. .com domains accounted for 51% of all phishing in 2016, despite only having 48% of the domains in the “general population”, according to the 2017 Phishing Trends &…
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Belgium Domains Will Be Registered in Ireland After Cloud Move
February 20, 2017 @ 1:31 AMDNS Belgium, operator of .be, has moved its shared registration systems to the cloud, the non-profit said last week. The registry migrated from a self-hosted system to Amazon Web Services on February 11. It’s an effort to cut costs, increase efficiency, and free up engineering time currently dedicated to non-core functions such as hardware maintenance,…
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GoDaddy Sold Over $1 Billion of Domains in 2016
February 17, 2017 @ 6:44 AMGoDaddy’s domain sales topped $1 billion for the first time last year, CEO Blake Irving told analysts this week. The milestone was revealed as the registrar reported its fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 earnings late Wednesday. In the fourth quarter, the company had a net loss of $800,000, compared to a year-ago loss of $500,000, on…
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Investor Activist J. Carlo Cannell Still Isn't Very Happy With Rightside
February 17, 2017 @ 5:33 AMCannell is ready to step up his fight against Rightside. So Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) sold eNom to Tucows. What does investor J. Carlo Cannell think? As you might expect, he’s kind of pissed. But his rationale is a bit odd. You might recall that Cannell (who owns about 9% of the company through his funds)…
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.EU Has 3.76 Million Domains (Renewal Rate is 79% & Other Interesting Statistics)
February 17, 2017 @ 5:10 AM.EU published its Q4 2016 Progress Report that measures some interesting findings about the developments of the extension and the registrar community. During Q4 2016, the number of .eu registrations decreased by 32 655 domain names, a net decrease of 0.9%, to 3.76 million. The total number of .eu domain names registered at the end…
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NamesCon Extended Auction Results: 144 Domains Sold Out of 359
February 16, 2017 @ 10:00 AMThe NamesCon extended auction ended on Namejet last week featuring the domain names that didn’t sell on the NamesCon 2017 live auction. Getting all the results was not easy to do… NameJet and RightOfTheDot partnered again to provide the NamesCon domain auction. Live auction The live auction was held on the 22nd of January, 2017…
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GoDaddy's Domain Revenue Tops $900 Million in 2016
February 15, 2017 @ 1:22 PMIf growth rate continues, GoDaddy’s domain name business might hit $1 billion in 2017. GoDaddy released Q4 and full year 2016 earnings after the bell today. The company reported $485.9 million in revenue for Q4, up 14.2% year-over-year. Its total 2016 revenue was $1.847.9 billion, up 15% from 2015. The company also added close to…
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Amazon Launches New Amazon Chime Service On a .brand Top Level Domain Name
February 14, 2017 @ 2:25 PMChime.aws is the second website Amazon has launched on its .aws brand domain. Amazon announced a new video conferencing and work collaboration service today called Amazon Chime. The official website for the service uses the .aws top level domain name: Chime.aws. .Aws is one of Amazon’s .brand top level domain names and is short for…
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Canadian Firm Obero Tries to Reverse Domain Name Hijack Domain Name
February 14, 2017 @ 7:45 AMCompany filed cybersquatting claim against domain name that was registered before the company existed. Obero, Inc., a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and business analytics firm based in Ontario, Canada, has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Obero.com. The company, which uses the domain names OberoSolutions.com and OberoSPM.com…
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Nigger.com Returned to NAACP After Expiration Prompts $10,000 Auction
February 14, 2017 @ 3:35 AMUS civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has reclaimed the domain name nigger.com after it expired and went to auction. The names nigger.org and nigger.net were also affected, but according to Whois records the NAACP restored all three yesterday. The names had been in pending renewal/delete status for three…
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