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April 07, 2010
0:16
Using Your Domain Name in Another Company’s Google Local Listing
» ‎ Elliot's Blog
I found something very interesting today while looking for a hotel in Paris and think it’s a pretty great way to drive traffic to a domain name, although I am not exactly sure if it’s legit if Google were to know about. I am not going to name the url but want to share this story anyway.

I found a hotel that looked interesting to me via Orbitz, and I wanted to see where it was located in the city. I did a Google search for it, and the top result was the Google Local business listing, which contained the address, map, phone number, and url for the hotel (3 hyphen .com name).

When I clicked the url and opened it in a new window, it was a hotel booking engine that looked very familiar to me. It was a one page website, and although it was in French, I saw that there was very little to the website aside from the booking engine. A Whois search confirmed what I suspected, and the domain name was privately owned and unrelated to the hotel.

I don’t know if this is legit and/or against Google’s TOS, but it’s pretty ingenious for a company or person to have their domain name inserted into the Google Local result, especially when that comes up #1. Ironically, the hotel’s official website is ranked #3 for a search of the hotel, with TripAdvisor.com coming in at #2.
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April 06, 2010
23:51
CADNA: New gTLD Launch to Cost Businesses $746 Million
» ‎ CircleID

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) has released a report today suggesting that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) anticipated launch of 400 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) could cost brand owners worldwide over $746 million. "CADNA's findings are based off a document released by ICANN last month regarding the expected number of gTLDs, or the letters found after the last dot of a domain name like .COM or .ORG, that will be created during the first round of the TLD launch."

On the other hand, Earlier this year, Minds + Machines reported on an analysis predicting new gTLDs will only cost $.10 per trademark worldwide.
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More under: Cybersquatting, Domain Names, ICANN, Top-Level Domains
23:33
China Rejects Allegations of Major Hacking Attack Targeting India
» ‎ CircleID

China on Tuesday rejected "insinuations" of involvement by its government in cyberattacks after North American researchers exposed a China-based cyber-espionage ring that targeted computers in the Indian military and elsewhere. "We often hear news in this area, or insinuations and criticisms against the Chinese government. I do now know what evidence these people have or what their motives are," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular news briefing.
Read full story: Computerworld
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More under: Cyberattack, Malware, Security

23:06
Bankrate Buys InsuranceQuotes.com
» ‎ Domain Name Wire

Bankrate gets another category killer domain and web site — InsuranceQuotes.com.

Financial information company Bankrate, Inc. has purchased the lead generation web site and domain name InsuranceQuotes.com, according to whois domain name records.

The whois record for the domain name briefly transferred on April 3:

Bankrate
11760 US Highway One
suite 200
North Palm Beach, Florida 33408
United States

The expiration date for the domain also extended by one year. On April 4 the whois record suddenly changed to Go Daddy’s Domains by Proxy, Inc. whois proxy service.

Prior to this sale, InsuranceQuotes.com was sold for $85,000 through Eric Borgos of NameShopping.com. You can rest assured that it sold for much more this time around due to the development of the web site. Thanks in part of the direct match domain name, the web site ranks #1 in Google for “Insurance Quotes”. Compete.com estimates the site gets 15,000 monthly uniques, but that seems low.

Bankrate also recently bought the Bankaholic blog for $15 million.

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22:50
Hearst Buys Pilot.com for $300,000
» ‎ Domain Name Wire

Media company buys domain name Pilot.com.

Media conglomerate Hearst has purchased the domain name Pilot.com for $300,000. Hearst is well known for publications such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle. A review of Hearst’s products does not show much related to “Pilot”, so we’ll have to wait to see what the company is up to. Domain brokerage Sedo handled the transaction from a private seller.

Sedo also brokered the sale of Nasty.com for $200,000 to a different buyer. That domain is still in the transfer process. Another buyer picked up NoStrings.com and NoStringsAttached.com for a total of $75,000.

Here are the rest of this week’s sales at Sedo:

.COMs
pilot.com 300,000 USD
nasty.com 200,000 USD
mec.com 99,000 USD
golfcoursesguide.com 62,000 USD
nostrings.com 37,500 USD
nostringsattached.com 37,500 USD
collegeoverview.com 20,000 USD
ffb.com 18,000 USD
chargepoints.com 14,999 USD
bsh.com 10,501 USD
lmd.com 10,100 USD
winga.com 7,999 EUR
windeal.com 7,500 USD
shortcodes.com 7,299 USD
viajabien.com 5,300 EUR
novotempo.com 5,002 USD
emanifest.com 5,001 USD
whichisbetter.com 5,000 USD

ccTLDs
umschuldung.de 12,501 EUR
schönheitsoperation.ch 9,000 EUR
js.de 8,099 EUR
ow.de 7,500 EUR
aegypten.eu 4,900 EUR
bonuszertifikate.eu 4,000 EUR

Other
Other
jadu.net 5,000 USD
ax.org 5,000 GBP
renten.org 3,600 EUR
schmerz.info 3,600 EUR

[Note: The original title of this post, which was up for less than an hour, may have been misunderstood to suggest that Hearst bought both Pilot.com and Nasty.com. Of course, it only bought Pilot.com.]

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22:49
Comcast v. FCC - "Ancillary Jurisdiction" Has to Be Ancillary to Something
» ‎ CircleID

Big news today - Judge Tatel has written the D.C. Circuit's opinion in Comcast v. FCC, and Comcast wins.

Bottom line: The FCC didn't have regulatory authority over Comcast's unreasonable network management practices because it failed to tie that authority to any express statutory delegation by Congress.

FCC can't rely on Title I's "necessary and proper" clause to give it jurisdiction over Comcast's unreasonable network management practices, because this kind of "ancillary jurisdiction" has to be necessary to further its regulation of activities over which it DOES have express statutory authority. (Example: the FCC 40 years ago went after cable to protect broadcast. It didn't have statutory authority over cable, but it did over broadcast—and the Supreme Court agreed that its exercise of power over cable was "reasonably ancillary" to its power over broadcast.)

FCC had said that the "necessary and proper" clause, by itself, gave it authority—but this claim has no particular limits. If we believe that agencies act under delegated authority from Congress, there has to be some link in the FCC's order to an express statutory delegation of authority.

Implications: There are both narrow and broad stories to be told here.

Narrow:

The next time the FCC wants to issue an Order or otherwise exercise power over high-speed Internet access providers, it had better be very clear about the source of its power, and it can't rely on just its "necessary and proper" clause in Title I.

Broad:

FCC's arguments for its power over high-speed Internet access providers generally are now in jeopardy. It can't rely on Brand X as an affirmation of Title I authority, because the Court in that case simply deferred to the Commission's regulatory classification of cable modem services.

FCC's powers to impose consumer privacy protections on broadband providers or mandate the publication of cost information by them are now in jeopardy. These key elements of the National Broadband Plan may not be enforceable under Title I, and attempts to carry out these portions of the plan are likely to be the subject of heated litigation. Similarly, its nondiscrimination rulemaking is now in jeopardy, because that step depended on the same legal assertions that the DC Circuit found to be unpersuasive in today's opinion.

Next steps:

The FCC will likely take a deep breath and consider its options.
Written by Susan Crawford, Professor, University of Michigan Law School
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More under: Access Providers, Law, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Telecom
22:21
Verizon Begins Testing IPv6 on FiOS Services
» ‎ CircleID

John Curran writes: Verizon has announced today that its "month-long trial of IPv6 involves FiOS-enabled customer homes with customized CPE—provided by Verizon—that can support both IPv6 and IPv4. The dual protocol setup will also be implemented on Verizon's edge gateway routers. Verizon employs 6PE technology, which uses IPv6-provider edge routers to connect across the company's IPv4 MPLS core. The IPv6 traffic is then sent over IPv6-capable peering connections."
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More under: Broadband, Internet Protocol, IP Addressing, IPv6, Telecom

21:21
Gregory Ricks Sells 199.com on 4.cn, 500.com is Next
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
Ricks scores big sale on Chinese domain site.

I have to admit I wasn’t familiar with domain name brokerage site 4.cn before I learned about a recent sale by Gregory Ricks on the site. But now that Ricks has his money and the domain name is transferred, Ricks is certainly a believer.

Ricks sold the domain name 199.com in an auction on the site for 368,666 RMB (yaun), which is about $54,000 USD. It was his first big sale on the site, and it has given him the confidence to send another valuable domain name to auction: 500.com.

4.cn works similar to Sedo, but with a focus on the Chinese market. (Number domain names are very popular in China, but the site accepts other domains.) Buyers submit offers that the seller can accept, negotiate, or send to an auction. If the seller wants to send the domain name to auction, the person who made the offer has to agree. His bid will be the first in the auction and he has to place a deposit. Other bidders must also make a deposit to bid, which increases confidence in the auction.

Ricks’ sale of 199.com isn’t the only big sale on 4.cn. Other top sales include 866.com for 401,000 RMB and 022.com for 271,000 RMB.

The auction for 500.com ends on April 21, and has a reserve between 250,000 RMB and 500,000 RMB.

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20:57
ISOC-NY Event: dot nyc - How Are We Doing? (Sat Apr 10)
» ‎ CircleID

Joly MacFie writes: (Update: This event has been postponed) Last October the NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) issued a request for proposals for "services to obtain, manage, administer, maintain and market the geographic Top Domain name .nyc.". At ICANN's recent 37th meeting in Nairobi, consensus was reached on the "overarching" issue of intellectual property protection. This leaves only the issue of the final (4th) draft of the Applicants Guidebook, expected before the 38th meeting in Brussels in June 2010, before the much delayed new generic top level domain (gTLD) delegation process can finally grind into action. (One caveat—a policy forbidding cross-ownership of registries and registrars is still not totally set in stone.)

The Internet Society - New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) has for some years been following the .nyc and ICANN process on behalf of the NYC community and will, on Saturday April 10 2010, host a symposium "dot nyc - How are we doing?" at NYU. Vendors Eric Brunner-Williams of CORE Internet Council of Registrars (CircleID) and Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines (CircleID) will reveal details of their proposals to the City, after which there will be a discussion "What's it for?" about possible applications—civic, community, commercial, and "outside the box"—for a local top level domain.

What: ISOC-NY Event: dot nyc - How are we doing?
When: Saturday Apr 10 2010; 1pm-4.30pm (1700-2030 UTC)
Where: Warren Weaver Hall NYU Rm102, 250 Mercer St, NY 10012
Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free.
Webcast: http://livestream.com/isocny
Sponsor: ISOC-NY
Meetup: [internetpro.meetup.com]
Facebook: [www.facebook.com]

* We are hoping to permit remote participation via Skype and telephone.

More info: [www.isoc-ny.org]
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20:38
ITU on Internet governance debates
» ‎ IGP Blog

From IP Watch, an extensive interview with ITU Strategist Alexander Ntoko, which covers among other things, ITU's recommendation to member states to continue the IGF, and the ITU's preparations for the upcoming Plenipot this October in Mexico, including how the ITU-ICANN debate is "about countries wanting to play an equal role in those global policies that affect the internet," how "the management of IPv6 is peanuts" compared to international spectrum management, but "there has to be clarity in what membership wants us to do."

20:27
Register.com Expands Distribution for Domain Name Sales through NameMedia
» ‎ Domainers Magazine

NEW YORK -- Register.com, one of the foremost providers of global domain name registration, email, web site design and other web hosting services, announced an agreement to join NameMedia’s Domain Listing Service (DLS). When the terms of the deal are in place, Register.com’s customers will be linked up with access to more than two million domain names currently offered for sale through AfternicDLS.com's listing service.

Similar to the MLS network for physical real estate, the DLS network provides a source of liquidity for digital real estate--in this case, currently registered names that are put up for purchase by the owner. By listing domains on DLS, domain owners expose their properties to the largest source of potential buyers through a global distribution network, now including Register.com.

20:23
Can Live Current Media Hold On?
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
Is the end near for Live Current Media?

It has already gone down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in the domain name world. Will it come to an end soon?

By all accounts, Live Current Media had one of the most valuable category-killer generic domain name portfolios. It still has many good domains. But poor execution has led the company to sell off many of these domain names to raise cash to survive. The company reported a loss of about $4 million for 2009, and cash is flying out the door.

To compensate, the company sold 10 domain names last year for a total of about $3.2 million, not including a deal to dispose of its cricket liabilities and sell Cricket.com. Still, the company had only $1.214 million in current assets as of December 31, 2009. Current liabilities were $2.431 million.

In its annual report, the company admits that its future as a going concern is in doubt. The company lists seven measures it is taking to keep afloat. Among these are deferring payments on an acquisition that never made sense, asking vendors to take payment in shares rather than cash, and continuing to sell domain names.

Unfortunately, you can’t sell off all of your assets as a way to finance a losing business. Eventually the company will run out of good domain names. Its perfume.com business isn’t enough to sustain it.

Someone should put Live Current out of its misery.

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19:22
In Battle Over Retail Distribution, NameMedia Leaving Sedo in the Dust
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
Register.com agreement latest win for NameMedia.

Today NameMedia — which operates Afternic and BuyDomains — announced that it has signed Register.com as a premium promotion partner. That means that visitors to Register.com can purchase any of the domains at the “premium” promotion level listed on AfternicDLS in a simple purchase with instant fulfillment. It also means domains registered at Register.com are eligible to be listed at the premium level on the service.

Both NameMedia and the other heavyweight domain name marketplace Sedo have been trying to expand their reach using distribution agreements with instant fulfillment in which someone can buy a premium domain name just like registering a regular domain name. This is viewed as the holy grail of aftermarket domain name marketing.

So far, NameMedia has locked up Network Solutions and Register.com. All Sedo has nailed down so far is sister registrar 1&1. If the battle of retail distribution is in inking these agreements, which platform signs up the most top 10 registrars over the next 12 months will win.

That’s not to say Sedo can’t also sign deals with Network Solutions and Register.com. However, Sedo is at a great disadvantage because most domains on its platform aren’t priced. In order for instant purchase and fulfillment to work, domains must be priced. Sedo has been trying to get more of its inventory priced, but it’s a slow and uphill battle.

The problem for Sedo is that most people will only list a fixed price at one platform. If someone has a domain with a fixed price at Afternic, they don’t want to have a fixed price at Sedo too in case the domain happens to sell on both platforms prior to removing the inventory after a sale.

By nabbing Network Solutions and Register.com, NameMedia has captured two of the high cost, premium registrars. Of the other top 10 registrars, Go Daddy and Moniker are the most important. What NameMedia lacks right now is domainer inventory, since few domainers keep their domains at Network Solutions and Register.com. Go Daddy offers both inventory and distribution, although it may decide to lock out other providers in favor of its own premium listing service. Moniker has substantial premium inventory that NameMedia needs to tap into, although it lacks end user distribution.

The next 12 months will be critical in domain name aftermarket distribution. Let’s see if Sedo responds.

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19:19
Domain Invest Purchases Call.me For 20,000 EUR
» ‎ Domain Name News

Luxembourg based Domain Invest SA has just announced the purchase of “call.me” for 20,000 Euro (appx $27,000 USD). The company plans to develop the website in order to allow visitors to place sponsored calls from it.

See the full press release after the jump.

Luxembourg, April 6th, 2010 –DI SA (www.domaininvest.lu), a leading company in the internet domain name monetization, is proud to announce the acquisition of the domain name Call.Me, which will become one of the first virtual telephone booths.

Call.Me will enable visitors to call online from the website www.call.me any landline or mobile phone worldwide without having to install any software.

“The Internet is a virtual world which, by all means, should have a virtual telephone booth. It’s simple, but brilliant,” notes Natasa Djukanovic, Marketing and Sales Director of the .ME Registry. “The dot-ME domain, Call.Me, is perfect example of how our extension can be used as a call to action. We are thrilled to see this kind of technically advanced, easy-to-use service offered with a dot-ME name.”

Domain Invest (DI SA) operates a targeted online media business. The company owns and acquires thousands of undervalued internet domain names, with the aim of monetizing the traffic they receive through advertising.

DI SA invests in highly valuable media assets: internet domain names, the real estate of the Internet. The Company focuses essentially on premium generic domain names, such as GartenMoebel.de, AutoVerhuur.be, Valises.fr, Credito.it. DI SA has also recently centralized a large portfolio of “health” domain names, from healthy living practices to infections or diseases related names: erkaeltung.de, www.fieber.de, www.berufsallergien.de, www.multivitamins.com, www.vitamin.eu, www.healthjob.de, www.healthtruth.com, www.womenshealthmagazine.com, www.diets.net, www.lowfatdiets.co.uk, www.dietfood.com.

Frederick Schiwek, Managing Director of DI SA concludes, “We own large portfolio of domain names targeting specific topics and fields of interest. The acquisition of Call.me for examlple [sic] is essential as the name has a strong meaning and the .ME extension has gained great success and largely appealed to companies, organizations and also personal sites, for its marketing potential and also innovativeness”.

Stay tuned on call.me to see the upcoming advancements!
(c) 2010 DomainNameNews.com

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19:05
Domain Invest (DI SA) acquires Call.Me
» ‎ Domainers Magazine

LUXEMBOURG – DI SA (www.domaininvest.lu), a leading domain name monetization company, has acquired Call.Me, which will become one of the first virtual telephone booths.

Call.Me will enable visitors to call any phone number (landline or mobile) directly from the www.call.me website. The interface will be truly web-based, and no software downloads will be required to make the calls.

"The Internet is a virtual world which, by all means, should have a virtual telephone booth. It's simple, but brilliant," says Natasa Djukanovic, Marketing and Sales Director of the .ME Registry. "The dot-ME domain, Call.Me, is perfect example of how our extension can be used as a call to action. We are thrilled to see this kind of technically advanced, easy-to-use service offered with a dot-ME name."

18:57
Nasty.com sells for $200,000
» ‎ DomainNews

Nasty.com domain name was recently sold through Sedo for $200,000.

18:50
Register.com partners with AfternicDLS
» ‎ Domain Name News
After partnering with Network Solutions a while back, AfternicDLS has now also added Register.com as a partner registrar for their Domain Listing Service thus increasing the reach to end users and small business customers for their domain sales.

Domains listed with the (more expensive) premium promotion option have an average sales price (ASP) of $1,600, 33% higher than the expanded promotion ($1,200) and 78% higher than sales within the basic promotion level ($900). The premium level is currently only available for domains registered through Network Solutions or Register.com for domain names with a fixed price.

Premium Promotion partners are:
- Network Solutions
- Register.com
- Afternic
- Buydomains
- GoDaddy
- DomainTools
- Tierranet
- DomainDiscover
- DomainsBot
- Miss Domain
- directNIC
- PremierDomains
- Ultimate Domains
- domize
- Instant Domain Search
- FreshDrop
- JustDropped.com
- DomainsNewsletter.com
- Rick Latona
- Premium Domains
See the full press release after the jump.

Register.com Expands Distribution for Domain Name Sales through NameMedia

Register.com to Join NameMedia’s Domain Listing Service as a Premium Promotion Registrar

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NEW YORK, NY —April XX, 2010 — Register.com, a leading provider of web services and domain registration, today announced that it has signed an agreement to join NameMedia’s Domain Listing Service (DLS). Under the terms of the deal, Register.com’s customers will have access to more than two million domain names currently offered for sale through the DLS service located at AfternicDLS.com.

Similar to the MLS network for physical real estate, the DLS network provides a source of liquidity for digital real estate, or domain names, that are currently registered but are available for purchase. By listing their domain on DLS, domain owners expose their property to the largest source of potential buyers through a global distribution network, now including Register.com.

“We are excited to provide our customers with an additional opportunity to buy and sell premium domains,” said Register.com CEO Larry Kutscher. “This strategic partnership allows Register.com to couple our award winning customer service with expanded access to the Domain Reseller Marketplace.”

“Register.com is one of the industry’s leading registrars and its addition as a premium promotion partner for DLS will add significant value to Register.com and AfternicDLS customers,” said NameMedia CEO Kelly Conlin. “Through its global distribution network, AfternicDLS now receives more than 35 million requests each month by consumers looking for a domain name, making it the most productive platform for connecting domain sellers with domain buyers.”

About Register.com

Leveraging 15 years of experience in the domain business with over two and a half million domain names under management, Register.com (www.Register.com) has built a reputation as a leading provider of global domain name registration, email, web site design and web hosting services. Register.com enables businesses and resellers, such as ISPs, Web Hosts and Portals, to create a dynamic web presence without the need for extensive technical knowledge. Register.com is the only web services provider to earn the JD Powers award for outstanding customer service for the last five years.

About NameMedia

NameMedia is a leader in the acquisition; development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The company’s website development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. The company’s marketplace allows owners of premium domain names to list their domain properties for sale, and for domain buyers to review the largest available inventory. Through its ownership of one of the largest domain portfolios in the world, its innovative website development platform, and its broad distribution, NameMedia now serves more than 50 million visitors to its network of websites and sells domains to customers in more than 100 countriesHeadquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, more information is available at www.namemedia.com.
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18:00
NameMedia Deal With Register.com Opens Up New Sales Opportunity for Domain Owners
» ‎ Domain Name Journal

Major registrar Register.com has signed an agreement to join NameMedia’s Domain Listing Service, the AfternicDLS. The deal gives Register.com customers (mostly small to medium sized business end users) access to more than two million domain names currently offered for sale through the DLS service.

15:09
Domain Invest (DI SA) acquires Call.Me
» ‎ DomainNews

Luxembourg, April 6th, 2010 – DI SA (www.domaininvest.lu), a leading company in the internet domain name monetization, is proud to announce the acquisition of the domain name Call.Me, which will become one of the first virtual telephone booths.
14:11
AOL wins aolcom.com domain name in Arbitration
» ‎ DomainNews

AOL ,the American global Internet services and media company,has recently won a domain name in Arbitration.

12:41
Seo-Linkbuilding.de
» ‎ Domain Smalltalk

Eine der wichstigsten Aufgaben innerhalb der Suchmaschinenoptimierung ist das Linkbuilding. Ursprünglich war es so gedacht, dass beliebige Webseitenbetreiber fremde Inhalte interessant finden und deshalb freiwillig und ohne Gegenleistung dorthin verlinken. Dieses Vorgehen wird von Google & Co. als Empfehlung gewertet, und je mehr Empfehlungen eine bestimmte Seite zu einem bestimmten Schlagwort hat, desto schwerer wird die Seite in Verbindung mit…
12:37
RankingFaktoren.de
» ‎ Domain Smalltalk

Keiner weiß es so genau, aber es dürften ein paar hundert Faktoren sein, die im Ranking Algorithmus der verschiedenen Suchmaschinen einfließen, um die Reihenfolge der Suchergebnisse zu bestimmen. Dabei gibt es Onsite Ranking Faktoren, wie z.B. der Seitentitel, Überschriften und Keyworddichte wie auch Offsite Ranking Faktoren, am bekanntesten wohl die eingehenden Links.

RankingFaktoren.de ist die bestmögliche Domain für eine Wissens-…

11:00
Anomalies in the prices of premium domains. Tv
» ‎ Domisfera

Michael H. Berkens became an echo of the disparity in prices between the domains. tv premium registered before Enom lost its exclusive rights with VeriSign and those sold after March 18, 2010 .

Specifically related to the domain great.tv for which it has been paying 3,000 annually. If you do not pay that amount, clearly lost the domain would become available.

But this domain would be available by paying a lump sum and its renovation would cost about $ 20 per year. Besides this payment, according to Name.com would be 435 for great.tv.

Indeed, one of the domains whose premium payment is one of the most expensive , porn.tv , if left expire now would cost according to Name.com only 1,158.84.

Michael's article had an immediate effect : Name.com no longer reports than it would cost domains. tv if lapse premium.

A few days before making the article Enom directly asked what the cost great.tv future. His response: "Your renewal rate is $ 3,000. If not renewed, VeriSign could adjust the price of a premium and would be available to anyone who wanted to register it."

(More information: Namepros 1 and 2 )

10:59
Spectrum Hot Real Estate
» ‎ CircleID

The fact that businesses around the world are knocking on the doors of their governments asking for spectrum is a clear indication that this telco real estate market is hotting up. The reason for this is not too hard to guess—the enormous growth in the demand for mobile broadband. There is a large amount of pent-up demand as the mobile operators didn't want to open up this market while they were in the middle of adding new customers to their mobile voice services.

With that market saturated their attention has now moved to mobile broadband.

However, it was the iPhone that broke open this market. The mobile operators didn't want to sell mobile broadband access on its own; they preferred to bundle it with the content offerings in their mobile portals. Apple broke that nexus and this led to the current mobile broadband explosion.

At the same time this clearly brings mobile into the data market. The emphasis is now on applications and many of them are based on video. This has also affected the mobile radio market—these are the thousands of mini mobile radio networks that operate around the world, mainly for the public safety agencies such as police, ambulance, fire, security, etc. Because of proprietary technologies these networks are still stuck in the old world of voice only. All of these networks are in desperate need of upgrading but very few can afford these upgrades on their own.

This is where the trans-sector concept kicks in. By sharing common infrastructure each agency can run its own service over that shared infrastructure. However, most agencies are wary of using a commercial network for this purpose. Nevertheless in the USA that is exactly what the FCC is proposing.

In Australia ACMA has also clearly indicated that these agencies will have to learn to share; and they will need to work on harmonising their networks.

It will be interesting to see whether this will happen on a voluntary basis and if commercial networks are willing to make their infrastructure available to these agencies on a utilities basis.

Alternatively, could this also lead to regulatory intervention that could possibly, in turn, lead to a separation of the basic infrastructure from the services?
Written by Paul Budde, Managing Director of Paul Budde Communication
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9:32
ICANN approves IDNs for Taiwan,China,Thailand and many others
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ICANN has recently approved IDNs in 19 countries .The most recent approved IDNs are China,Taiwan,Sri Lanka,Honk Kong,Taiwan,Qatar, Thailand and Tunisia.
9:30
Two days left until SnapNames Spring Auction ends
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Snapnames Low and No reserve Spring auction ends April 8th,2010 at 3:15 PM EST .

7:53
Open Identity: the end of childhood, the age of assurance
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This week is the week of the OpenID summit in Mountain View, California. We are all hoping that 2010 will be another pivotal year for open identity. There seems to be a combination of market forces that are making federated identity more attractive. In fact, we are hearing new compelling use cases for federation. A first example is cloud access and identity management. As enterprises shift their IT infrastructure and information to the cloud (as in IAAS, PAAS and SAAS applications), CIOs need to federate corporate identities with cloud service providers. For cloud resources, the corporate directory becomes the identity providers and the cloud services are the relying parties (and if you don't have a directory or don't want to use it for federation, Google is in the pole position to be your OP). Another interesting vertical ripe for federation is healthcare. Now that the Obama bill for healthcare has passed, one should expect a revival of health information networks (remember the RHIOs). Finally, payment, the mother of al federation, online payment, is seeing a lot of innovation too. From mobile to social games, to high assurance open identity networks led by modern payment systems such as PayPal, Amazon or Facebook could sway consumers, curb fraud and shift merchant liability where Verified by Visa has fumbled to-date.

So, what do the trusted cloud initiative, Obama's new health care bill, and next generation online payment have in common? They all require federation and stronger forms of authentication to enable trust and protect against fraud. These transactions are complex and risky. They are complex because they involve multiple independent, sometime competing organizations. Federation is needed. These transactions are also too risky because the current Internet authentication system based on name and password is too weak. High assurance identity is needed. As government and vertical industries worldwide come to the realization that their cyber security and business agenda require them to enable high assurance online transactions, federation and strong authentication will converge into new compelling trust infrastructures deployed across vertical markets.

The need for high assurance federation may provide a much needed boon for open identity technologies such as OpenID and OAuth. The point is that the adoption of a new identity management model on the Internet by consumers may require much more than single sign on, attributes exchange and authorization. As Dick Hardt put it many times, these traditional identity features are only vitamins. Most people won't go for vitamins alone. Consumers want enablement. Facebook figured that one a long time ago but tying friends discovery and activity streams to Facebook Connect. So, what is Open Identity's mojo then? I dare to suggest that the opportunity for open identity is new transaction enablement. If open identity networks can enable complex and risky transactions that are not possible online today, massive adoption will follow and altering the digital identity experience becomes palatable.

Of course, it is a security guy talking but let us consider the business model too. The business of security and trust is well understood. Credit bureaus, security companies and VISA/Mastercard have clear and compelling transactional business models. Transactional revenue model are also more compelling than advertising. The profit margins for standing in the middle of transactions as neutral third-party and enable high assurance are fairly high. Compare the addressable market to the currently minuscule market size of open identity as it stands today. Whether you look at it from a product, deployment or economic standpoint, I continue to believe that the future of open identity on the Internet rapidly is intimately linked to high assurance identity.

5:18
VeriSign Proposes Domain Name Exchange Service
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
New program would let registrars trade-in domains they no longer want.

VeriSign has filed papers with ICANN proposing a “Domain Name Exchange” that would let .net domain name owners trade in their domains for others. The stated purpose of the exchange is to allow service providers that offer packages for less than a year to change in domains when customers are no longer using them:

Today when a registrant terminates a package of services from a registrar after, for example, an introductory 1 or 3 month period, the registrar is forced to recoup the investment in the associated domain via monetization or the secondary market. The domain exchange will allow a registrar to offer another registrant a package that sits on top of that same registration using a new domain…

Many web hosting companies offer monthly packages and could take advantage of this exchange.

In its filing (pdf), VeriSign acknowledges that some people may view this as an opportunity for “domain tasting”, whereby a registrant could register a domain and exchange it for another if it doesn’t produce enough revenue:

Some members of the Intellectual Property constituency and certain registrars whose primary business is brand management have raised concerns similar to those raised in the development of policy concerning the use of the Add Grace Period (“AGP”).

However, VeriSign is proposing several measures to quell these fears:

-Allow exchanges only every 30 days
-Not allow a grace period following an exchange
-Publish a report that lists the domain names exchanged as part of a registration
-Create a WHOIS/WHOWAS record for all domain names exchanged under the Domain Name Exchange Service.

The “WhoWas” service VeriSign refers to (pdf) would only include registry whois information, not registrar information such as the registrant name.

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5:02
Save Money on Your Custom Posterous Domain With Name.com!
» ‎ The Official Name.com Blog
Here at Name.com we’re big fans of services like Posterous and Tumblr. They make blogging dead simple and help make people’s jump into the blogging world a much less intimidating one. Now Posterous has just announced a custom domain service that allows you to register a domain directly through their site, making it easy to customize your blog. The catch — you’re limited to COM/NET/ORG and these registrations cost you $24.99 for one year and $19.99 for two. Ouch.

If you were to do the very same thing through Name.com, it would be a fraction of the cost in exchange for a couple more clicks. You also have the option to use quite a few more extensions if you go this route, since the name you want might not necessarily be available in COM/NET/ORG. Take my Posterous blog for example, I decided to go with sproutic.us.

After purchasing the domain you just have to go to your Account and click on the domain name.

Then click on your DNS Management settings on the right hand side.

Create two A Records for your domain that point to 67.207.139.81:
- one that you leave blank before the domain
- one with an * before the domain
Add your domain name to your Posterous settings, SAVE, and…

voila! Your blog is now set up with your very own domain.

Not bad, and it can save you a decent chunk of change depending on the domain name. If you’re looking for Google Apps, we can help you there too — you can easily enable and access the Google Apps setup from your account to hook your new blog up with its very own email, calendar, docs, etc!

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2:02
Rick Latona Auctions Parts Ways With President David Clements
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In a Sunday surprise, Rick Latona announced that he and Rick Latona Auctions President David Clements are going their separate ways. Both said the split was an amicable one. David's brother Toby, who worked with Rick to start Latona's domain brokerage business, will now run the auction company with Latona.

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