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Vape Magazine Nailed for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
June 30, 2016 @ 8:02 AMCompany filed UDRP for domain name that was registered before it existed. Starpixel Marketing LLC dba Vape Magazine has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking for the domain name VapeMagazine.com. VapeMagazine.com was registered in 2011. The complainant founded Vape Magazine about a year later and launched a site at vapenewsmagazine.com…
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Care.com Raises $46m From Google Capital
June 30, 2016 @ 7:41 AMGoogle Capital Invests in Care.com – Transaction Marks First Investment in Public Company by Google Capital – 06/29/2016 Waltham, MA, June 29, 2016 – Care.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRCM), the world’s largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care, today…
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.com Contract Extension Shorter Than Verisign Expected
June 30, 2016 @ 6:36 AMExtension will add six years to existing agreement. ICANN has published a proposed extension to its contract with Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) for .com. While the existing contract doesn’t expire until 2018, the parties are extending the agreement so that its end date matches that of the new Root Zone Management Agreement. The Root Zone Management Agreement…
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ICANN & Verisign Propose 6-year Extension of The .com Registry Agreement Until 2024
June 30, 2016 @ 6:00 AMICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement until November 30, 2024. On 1 December 2012, ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which…
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DomainTools Launches Threat Hunting App and Search Add-on for Splunk
June 29, 2016 @ 11:52 AMNew App and Search Add-On Allows Security Teams to Leverage Proxy and DNS Logs for Threat Hunting, Incident Response and Triage 09:00 ET from DomainTools SEATTLE, June 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS-based cyber…
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Company Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking After Refiling Case
June 29, 2016 @ 8:42 AMDomain owner forced to defend himself twice despite unchanged facts. A company that sells an organic fertilizer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after filing a UDRP for the second time. GBI Prosperities Pty Ltd. and Dr Grow It All Sales Pty Ltd. filed the UDRP against the owner of doctorgrowitall.com and…
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Sedo: Number of Sold Domains is On a Steady Decline Since 2010 (Down 38.7%)
June 29, 2016 @ 8:25 AMI wrote an article 2 days ago called “Is Sedo Slowly Dying?” and Andrew Allemann from DomainNameWire.com added more stats on this article. So here are a few more numbers I found about the amount of sold domain names at Sedo. I am not going to talk about volume of sales in terms of money…
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Brexit Probably No Big Deal for UK Domain Owners
June 29, 2016 @ 5:32 AMThe UK may have suffered the most serious self-inflicted wound since the deep-fried Mars bar when it voted to leave the European Union last week, but it seems unlikely to have a huge effect on domain name registrants. Most EU ccTLD registries do not require registrants to be based in the EU, and those that…
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Strickling Responds to Marco Rubio et al About IANA Transition
June 29, 2016 @ 5:17 AMA well-reasoned response to a poorly reasoned concern. NTIA Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling has responded to Senator Marco Rubio and four other members of Congress who questioned plans to remove the U.S. government’s direct role in the IANA functions. Strickling explains why the fears are unfounded, and how the new structure actually reduces the ability…
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Survey: More People Know About New gTLDs But Fewer Trust Them
June 29, 2016 @ 1:35 AMPeople are becoming more aware that new gTLDs exist, but there’s less trust in them that there was a year ago, according to an ICANN-sponsored survey. The second annual Global Consumer Survey, which was published late last week, shows that 16% of respondents had heard of specific new gTLDs, on average. That’s up 2% on…
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