http://www.domainpulse.com The Beat on the Domain Name Industry - Domain Name Industry News Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:02:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ICANN aims to raise awareness of critical Internet security issue The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is raising awareness of a recently discovered vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS). This includes releasing an FAQ and an online tool for domain operators to test their domains. Due to the ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/07/icann-highlights-domain-name-system-vulnerability-releases-tools/ The .ME Registry announced today it has registered more than 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes a little more than two weeks after opening for live, real-time registrations by the general public and less than four months after opening its doors. "We believe the huge demand for .ME reflects the public's ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/05/100000-me-domain-names-now-registered/ In a June court ruling, domainer Navigation Catalyst and registrar Basic Fusion lost a cybersquatting lawsuit to Verizon. This is an extremely interesting and potentially precedent-setting case regarding domaining and domain name tasting writes Eric Goldman. The court condemned both practices, leading to a preliminary injunction against the domainer and ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/05/us-june-court-decision-detrimental-to-domaining-practices/ Milton Mueller continues his prolific pronouncements on ICANN on the Internet Governance blog. In this posting he writes of a "small working group created at the Paris meeting [that] has come to an agreement about the voting distribution in ICANN's policy making Council for domain names (the GNSO Council). It remains ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/05/victory-for-civil-society-representation-in-icann/ ICANN is finally taking steps to figure out what to do if a registry fails says Larry Seltzer in eWeek. Seltzer writes that ICANN is looking at what would happen when one of the critical infrastructure providers on the internet, such as VeriSign, were to fail. The article gives a ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/05/icann-plans-for-disaster-a-registry-failure/ T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under is happening on the Gold Coast, Australia, with Fabulous.com (Dark Blue Sea Ltd) and T.R.A.F.F.I.C. partnering to host the premiere event being held from November 18 to 20, to be held at the Sheraton Mirage Resort, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Dr. Paul Twomey, President and Chief Executive Officer ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/05/traffic-down-under-to-donate-profits-to-ica/ ME Registry announced today it has registered more than 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes a little more than two weeks after opening for live, real-time registrations by the general public and less ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/05/100000-me-domains-registered/ Internet Investors, recently acquired over 60 domain names related to hotels, restaurants, travel, shopping, jobs, events, attractions, nightlife and real estate in Colorado. These recent acquisitions compliment the group's generic/geographic/service -related domains portfolio. The company monetizes web sites through domain parking, resell through their domain marketplace and domain development. "We love ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/domain-investment-firm-adds-over-60-colorado-domain-names-to-growing-portfolio/ Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn’t increasing, it’s not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters ofClick fraud in Q2 of 2008 reports ZDNet. The article says more sophisticated botnets are to blame according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/click-fraud-in-2nd-quarter-of-2008-more-sophisticated-botnets-to-blame/ Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. A big part of Google's rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses a specific page's importance by how many other Web pages link to ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/microsoft-tries-to-one-up-google-pagerank/ Company claims rights to domain because prior owner has not used it. After Domain Name Wire posted a story about the Fired.com UDRP case and contacted World2Work Corporation, the complainant, World2Work and its attorney released a statement about the case reports DomainNameWire. The company claims that it should have rights to the ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/world2work-releases-statement-about-firedcom/ SGNIC has announced a promotion for the month of August as part of the nation's 43rd birthday with the cost of .sg domain names capped at SGD$5 or less. From 1 August till 31 August 2008, registration fees for domain names under the ".sg" and ".per.sg" extensions will be capped at ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/i-love-sg-national-day-promotion/ ICANN's recent announcement they will begin a process to approve more gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains) has generated significant interest with a number of proposals mooted. One TLD that seems to be popular is .sport with two proposals announced. The second is dotSport LLC, a consortium led by its founder ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/second-sport-gtld-proposal-launched/ Later this month, InternetNZ and APNIC will jointly host APNIC 26, one of the most important meetings in 2008 for the Asia Pacific Internet community to discuss issues relating to domain names and internet governance for the region. APNIC 26 is being held in Christchurch from 25 to 29 August 2008. ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/asia-pacific-internet-community-to-descend-on-nz-for-apnic-26/ DotAsia Top 10 Auctions Action Packed as Hot-or-Not Contest Excitement Continues DotAsia Organisation announced today that auction proceeds for the .Asia Sunrise and Landrush auctions reached US$7 Million after surpassing the US$6 Million mark 2 weeks ago. The top 10 list also continues to experience constant changes and exciting developments.  Four ... http://www.domainpulse.com/2008/08/04/region-wide-businesses-events-and-initiatives-embrace-asia-domains/