Archive for February, 2012
Bodog SHUTDOWN by FEDS & founder/operators federally indicted in Maryland
TweetA federal grand jury indictment was unsealed in Baltimore today charging the founder and operators of the popular online betting site Bodog.com with money laundering, prosecutors announced. The indictment charges former Candian billionaire Calvin Ayre as well as James Philip, David Ferguson, and Derrick Maloney with conducting an illegal sports gambling business and conspiring to [...]
Cream of crop .jp domain names to be release for registration.
TweetOriginal post by CircleID.com Those wishing to buy valuable internet real estate in the world’s third largest economy, including premium domain names such as tokyo.jp.net, shop.jp.net and kawaii.jp.net, now have a limited-time opportunity to make registration requests through leading global registrars including Onamae by GMO, Domain King, Instra and IP Mirror. .JP.NET is making the [...]
Bank Domain Names Open to Misuse, Fraud, European Regulator Says
TweetPlans to grant banks the use of new domain names such as .fin and .bank will make it harder for regulators to stop fraud, Europe’s top banking authority told the group in charge of the Internet’s address system. The domain names “have a great potential” for “misuse by unscrupulous individuals,” Andrea Enria, chairman of the European [...]
Firms fined for ‘typosquatting’ domain names
TweetTwo companies which used “typosquatting” to mislead customers have been fined £100,000 each. A typosquatted site is one which poses as a well-known website and takes advantage of customers who miss-type the web address. These companies register domain names that are similar to a brand (in this case ‘Wikapedia’ and ‘Twtter’) and then target users who accidentally [...]
NIRA Laments Poor Domain Name Registration Targets 500, 000
Tweet Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the body managing Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), the dot ng domain name, is shocked at the slow rate at which Nigerians are registering domain names, despite campaigns by NIRA to create awareness. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma who made the disclosure in Abuja at the [...]
Google Now The Largest Public DNS Provider
Tweet Google has become the largest public DNS service in the world. The company launched Google Public DNS in December 2009 and on Tuesday said its service is handling more than 70 billion requests a day. Google software engineer Jeremy K. Chen likens DNS to a phone book for the Internet, a comparison that presumes a familiarity with [...]
.PRO Auction Nets Big Sales with Go.pro
TweetVANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — RegistryPro’s recent premium auction of one-, two-, and three-character domain names is the most successful .PRO auction to date. Held in conjunction with GoDaddy.com, the auction began on January 10, 2012, and concluded on January 17. The seven-day event had opening bids ranging from $50-$5,000 in [...]
Proposal to regulate the “.music” domain
TweetThe Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has announced that it is backing a proposal that will highly regulate those domain names that end with .music. If approved, then those web addresses will be limited to members of accredited music industry associations. Moreover, the content of the websites will be monitored on a regular basis for [...]
ViSalus Pay $825K To Buy “Challenge.com” & “Vi.com”
TweetToday, we’ve learned that ViSalus Sciences, a direct sales “health transformation company” that distributes weight management and nutritional supplement products, has entered the shortlist of pricey domain name buyers. The creators of the so-called “Body By Vi Challenge,” which (among other things) is a 90-day contest that offers people health products, support, and cash prizes in [...]
Afternic Extended Promotion WORKS!
TweetAfter years of listing with companies like SEDO where I was lucky to get an offer once a year, using Afternic’s expanded promotion has generated six inquiries in 3-weeks with two of the domain names selling. Although I am paying an extra commission for the expanded promotion, the domain names are being presented to many [...]
