Tag archive: domain

As we all know by now, Google Search is not a beast to be tampered with. Its Panda update and reissue struck more than fear into websites everywhere, it also sent them into the black hole of the Internet. While there’s something to be said for good intentions (and Google attempting to rid your search results of spam sites and content farms is a noble cause), the search algorithm tweaks have failed to universally boost good sites and banish bad… Read More

After years of debate, ICANN has finally given .xxx the go ahead. It will now be recognized as a top level domain and pornographic sites will retain their own customized URL signifier. According to the Washington Post, the vote was split and the final ruling actually contradicted the board’s Government Advisory Committee, which fought the action. “We are disappointed that ICANN ignored the clear advice of governments worldwide, including the… Read More

Founded in 1997, GoDaddy is privately held by ex-Marine Bob Parsons and is well known for its racy advertising, featuring race car driver Danica Patrick and other scantily clad women. As one of the largest domain name registrars around, GoDaddy currently manages more than 43 million domain names. It also sells e-commerce, security, and other add-on services for people to manage their Web presence. According to the Wall Street Journal, GoDaddy… Read More

Since there seem to be domains for almost everything on the horizon, why not a .scot? The SNP, Scotland’s governing party, seems to see it as a possibility, and is preparing an application to create the domain. In a study, the Office of the Chief Researcher found that 58% of Scots organizations and institutions wanted a top level domain name, the Guardian reports, with 48% feeling .scot was a good idea. Among international social… Read More

You probably didn’t notice it, but yesterday a new domain suffix was rolled out. The .tel suffix is now available for those who want to buy domains, but this one has a bit of a difference – it’s intended as a contact point, a kind of phone book, rather than a place to build sites, or so say those behind the domain’s registry, according to the BBC. Kash Mahdavi, head of Telnic, which runs the .tel registry, said:… Read More

EstDomains isn’t popular among computer security people. The domain registrar is said by many to be the main registrar for domains associated with spam and cybercrime. As F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen wrote: "They've been on our map for years as they've been the largest registrar used by online criminals for their domain name registration needs." But EstDomains might not be around too much… Read More

If your domain name of choice has been already been soaked up in every ending from .com to .tk, fear not: a new move by the organization responsible for registering domains may soon open up a limitless supply of new endings. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided Thursday that it will create new guidelines to streamline the addition of new domains in the coming years. ICANN announced its decision at the… Read More

It may be a dubious distinction along the lines of being the most crime-addled city in the United States or having the longest rap sheet in your high school’s graduating class, but Hong Kong has earned the title of “Most Dangerous Domain” according to a new report by McAfee. In the company’s second annual Mapping the Mal Web report, .hk took top honors with an impressive 19.2 percent of its sites posing a security… Read More

Domain registrar and net infrastructure operator VeriSign announced today that it will raise the fees for registering .com and .net domains by $0.40 beginning October 1, 2008. The fee increases are allowed under Verisign's agreement with ICANN; under that agreement, Verisign can raise fees for .com domain registration in four of the six years between 2006 and 2012. The new fees for registering a .com domain will be $6.86; a .net… Read More

The California law firm of Kabateck, Brown, and Kellner has filed a class action suit against Network Solutions and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), alleging the company has unfairly profited by temporarily registering domains as soon as someone conducts a search for their availability via the company's Web site. The Network Solutions practice—which the company rolled out with any explanation,… Read More

In a gesture worthy of Captain Jack Sparrow, Internet pirates have fired a broadside against the establishment.   The Swedish site Pirate Bay, whichspecializes in file sharing, evidently had had enough of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which owns the domain www.ifpi.org. So when someone offered them the domain ifpi.com, they happily took it up as a way of sowing confusion among the enemy.   According… Read More

As of today, you can begin to register the .asia domain.   Well, you can if you’re a government or a company with a trademark and you want to reserve a domain name during what’s known as the sunrise period for this new suffix. The rest of us will have to wait until February next year before we can register domains with the suffix.   The domain stretches farther than you might imagine, going all the way from Australia to… Read More

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has always existed at a strange intersection of technology, culture, and politics. While dancing a fine line between international credibility and being controlled by the U.S. Department of Commerce, ICANN continually deals with issues regarding the languages, cultures, and nations of the world. And even the seemingly simple stuff is never easy. Take, for instance,… Read More

Somehow, the days where the Internet consisted only of .gov, .edu, .net, .org, and the occasional .com are seeming very quaint. In addition to the myriad of top-level domains which have since been created for nations, geographic regions, interest niches and specific technologies, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the creation of a new .asia top-level domain. The new domain will supplement existing… Read More

The U.K.-based Spamhaus Project is in danger of losing its domain name as the result of a lawsuit filed in U.S. court. Spamhaus maintains blacklists of sites and computers known to be used by spammers to distributed illegal messages, phishing schemes, viruses, worms, and unsolicited commercial email—by their estimates, they help protect the mailboxes of mord than 650 million Internet users (including sites like the White House, the… Read More