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Dan Nunes (Engineer) and Shane Keats (Research Analyst) at McAfee SiteAdvisor have produced a paper analysing the global distribution of malware, and produced some very nice graphical/visual risk assessment analysis.
Verisgn has released it’s Domain Name Industry Brief report analysing the 4th quarter of 2006. It contains some very interesting statistics
of 66,871,556 domains analysed
23% were parked sites
63% had live sites
14% had no website
At the end of 2006 2.1 million .com and .net registrations were added per month growing the total .com and .net registrations to over 65 million. And the total registrations for all gTLDs and ccTLDs exceeded 120 million for the first time.
The largest TLDs by size .com, .net, .de, .uk, .org and .info
A man who made a fortune from Internet domain names has pledged with his wife one of the largest donations ever to LSU — a $25 million gift.
According to a news account, Stephenson told LSU business students in 1999 the biggest decision of his career was to purchase three dozen generic Internet domain names, including airlines.com, wedding.com, wholesale.com, electronics.com, doctors.com and hospitals.com
Marchex is planning to use its Open List site, which has information on more than 15 million businesses divided into 20,000 different categories, to populate many of its well-trafficked domains.
Transforming domains that are single landing pages loaded with paid-search ads into sites with hundreds of dynamic content pages which users will consider worth bookmarking.
A MSNBC & Markmonitor article covers how extensive the practice of using the ICANN 5 day grace period for “tasting” before buying domains has become. (Kiting is repeated tasting where the domain is never fully registered (i.e. paid for) instead the 5 day grace period is used over and over again
According to the article 98% of new .com’s registered at the end of 2006 were using domain tasting or domain kiting
The number of .info domain registrations has just passed 4 million. The .info namespace which is run by Afilias has been steadily growing since its launch in 2001, and includes sites like spain.info, moscow.info, picturebox.info and dotmac.info
.XXX took up most of the latest ICANN Board meeting. In total the feed back from the public included 200,000 emails and 1300 comments in the .xxx public comment forums. The latest call attracting 600 new comments and 55,579 emails. From those comments 77% were opposed
There has been suggestions that even the community .XXX is meant to represent is not happy with the way .XXX is being handled and as a result ICANN resolved to hold a futher comment period.
ICANN Resolved (07.08) that:
- the revised version of Appendix S be exposed to a public comment period of no less than 21 days; and
- ICANN Staff consult with ICM and provide further information to the Board prior to its next meeting, so as to inform a decision by the Board about whether sponsorship criteria is met for the creation of a new .XXX sTLD.
CBR Online is reporting VeriSign Inc. is likely to raise .com wholesale prices in the 1st half of 2007, with .net likely to follow.
The maximum permitted rises under the recently inked agreements with ICANN would see the .com wholesale price to rise from $6 to $6.42 and .net wholesale price from $4.25 to $4.67
Namedia have announced they are making available 500,000 names from FabulousDomains this means their marketplaces Afternic and BuyDomains now have around 2,000,000 domains available for sale.
The launch (January 19th) offers domain owners a possibly far more profitable alternative to domain parking.
LeaseThis.com has developed an innovative patent pending technology that makes available the Internet’s premium domains to individuals and businesses around the globe.
“Whether you are an individual, a small business or global conglomerate, LeaseThis.com provides you with the tools necessary to access the premium domain names that are essential to your online presence. What was once impossible is now within your reach…”
GPM Group 