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The Moniker Live Auction in Silicon Valley has just sold $2,123,850* of domain names.
……..$7,000 Announced.com
……$14,000 Ycg.com
……..$6,000 BarbequeGrill.com
……..$1,000 LaptopComputers.info
……$21,000 Diets.net
……..$5,750 BusinessBankruptcy.com
……..$4,000 Junk.net
……..$2,500 ReElect.com
……..$9,000 HotProducts.com
……$10,000 KingCrab.com
……..$8,000 Accreditation.com
……..$6,500 AircraftEngines.com
……..$4,500 SystemBackups.com
……..$2,000 OfficeSupplyStores.com
…………$500 NoEvil.com
……..$6,000 MovingService.com
……..$5,000 Transferring.com
……..$2,500 DiscountAirfares.org
……$25,000 Shutter.com
……..$3,000 DesignFirm.com
……$32,500 Vixen.com
……$20,000 OnlineTelevision.com
……..$8,000 AllTerrainVehicles.com
……..$3,500 Buffoon.com
……..$3,000 DebtCollection.org
……..$1,250 15YearMortgageRates.com
……..$8,500 BoatRepairs.com
……$11,000 Filet.com
……..$9,000 Sports.info
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As well as .tel domains for sale through ICANN accredited registrars the registry operator of the new .tel gTLD Telnic has announced a number of new organizations are to begin offering .tel domains for sale to their customers.
Organizations offering .tel domains for sale will include MySpace, iWelt the German directory services organization and BT (British Telecom). BT will begin offering .tel domains for sale in May, initially through its social networking site, a 300,000 strong community, for small businesses BT Tradespace.
The Telnic press release can be found here.
The US Government has digitally signed the .gov gTLD the General Services Administration has announced.
“On Feb. 28, 2009, DNSSEC became operational on .gov after the program successfully completed all required DNSSEC testing,”
“The .gov DNSSEC public key was registered [Feb. 28] with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Interim Trust Anchor Repository (iTAR) and became available for use as the published trust anchor for .gov validation,”
“The .gov Top Level Domain is now considered an active DNSSEC signed zone.”
The next step in the government wide effort to better secure its DNS is for agencies to begin deploying DNSSEC within their second-level domains, such as gsa.gov, by the end of the year.
What is DNSSEC? – http://www.dnssec.net/
Verisign has jsut released their first domain industry report (.pdf) for 2009. 10.1 million new domains were registered in Q4 2008 giving a 17% year on year growth from Q4 2007.
The Moniker Live Auction in Holywood as just sold $604,700* of domain names.
.. 20000 errors.com
…. 3500 smokin.com
…. 1000 vote.info
…. 1500 heatingequipment.com
…. 3500 rumours.com
…. 5000 europe.travel
…. 5000 laptopskins.com
…. 1500 famouschefs.com
.. 15000 antidepressant.com
.. 10000 contact.me
…. 7500 petbirds.com
…. 5000 devotion.com
…. 3000 free.travel
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Google have just annouced they are extending AdSense for Domains to all publishers
The product will be rolled out incrementally starting with English speakers in North America exending to other languages and regions in the future. More information at the Adsense Help Center.
Sedo have just completed an auction of premium .mobi domain names. The total sold* was $206,229.
*This is a provisional number because (a) Sedo Auctions are difficult to track, (b) we do not have official confirmation and (c) sometimes bids on Sedo auctions are not honoured. Read the rest of this entry »
The Global Phishing Survey shows that, during the first half of 2008, .INFO has the lowest phishing rate and the lowest average attack duration among the Internet’s generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
.INFO’s attack durations were near the average among all gTLDs in the second half of 2007, so INFO is now even safer than it was in the past.
This improvement began in January 2008, when Afilias implemented a vigorous anti-phishing program. The study results demonstrate the effectiveness of this program, with the average phishing attack durations in the .INFO domain reduced by almost 50%, ahead of all other gTLDs. Reduced attack durations provide greater protection to consumers and organizations that conduct online commerce, demonstrably reducing financial losses and the many other costs of identity theft.
News article
http://www.afilias.com/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2008-11-06-01
Report
www.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey1H2008.pdf
The UAE is hoping to become the first country worldwide to offer complete internet domain names in a language other than English by late next year.
China have already achieved partial success however the .com or .info part of the domain must still be in English. ICANN’s ccTLDs (country code top level domains) initiative will allow for the first time the complete domain name to be in non-English letters.
In Q3 09 ICANN hopes to launch these new ccTLDs and “We will start implementing the Arabic domain names,” Mohammad Al Zarouni, chief technology officer at the .ae Domain Administration of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) told Gulf News.
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