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Sedo Sales June 28 - July 5 (2010)
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Moniker Auction Results: 29 .Us Domain Name Sell
» Domain Name WireUS country code auction sells over $40,000 worth of domain names.
[Updated: the official tally is 30 domains sold. I originally reported 29 domains sold.] Moniker‘s .us domain name auction sold
2930 of 86 domain names, or 35%. That’s a much stronger showing than recent online auctions held by the company. The key to success was a lot of good keyword domain names with low reserves. Having them at prices most people can afford helped, too.In total over $40,000 worth of .us domain names sold. The top sale was Flights.us at $11,770.
Below is my unofficial recording of the results.
At the time of posting, the auction for Psychics.us is still ongoing due to multiple 5 minute extensions.(updated)flights.us 11770
airlinetickets.us 3600
creditreports.us 3600
psychics.us 2915
gadgets.us 2050
dayspas.us 1756
debtconsolidation.us 1600
vegashotels.us 1551
therapists.us 1280
personalloans.us 1265
detox.us 1230
carpenter.us 1180
now.us 1050
upgrade.us 890
recalls.us 605
scooters.us 600
luxuryhotels.us 590
surveillance.us $590
eagle.us 480
abs.us 400
giant.us 375
login.us 325
amo.us 325
spamblocker.us 325
collegeeducation.us 300
heatingandair.us 300
seat.us 300
weightlosspills.us 300
wirelessprinters.us 300
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0:56
IPv6 Basking in the Desert Sun
» CircleIDTuesday June 29th at the Cisco Live Conference Las Vegas, John Chambers announced their newest product, the Cius tablet aimed at the enterprise market and positioned as a mobility product. That very same day a two hour IPv6 deployment panel, moderated by Cisco's Alain Fiocco, featured Google, Microsoft, Comcast and Tata Communications in front of a room filled to near capacity.
The nature of the audience was interesting. Compared to previous years, when asked about their affiliation, the number of hands raised for the category 'enterprise' was significantly higher. ISP's, Government and Education sector used to dominate but Industry now seems to have finally taken notice.
The session was prefaced by John Chambers' video, the same one presented at the Google IPv6 Conference some weeks ago, announcing Cisco's commitment to IPv6 support on all product lines. Top down works in most Corporations, so the various fiefs and divisions will certainly take notice as they will most likely be regularly probed on their progress. Let us assume that their bonuses will also be linked to some IPv6 related deliverables, this always brings quite some focus.
What remains of the increasingly putrid IPv4 address pool seems to dry up even faster under the scorching sun of the Vegas Valley. The exhaustion counters agree that a year from now the IANA pool will be dry while some pundits hypothesize a final run on the remaining IPv4 address blocks. Why not a betting site on the exact IPv4 exhaustion date? after all this is Vegas. Allocation of ever smaller blocks remains a temptation, ignoring the fact that associated table sizes would put possibly unbearable strain on routing and affect service quality. 'Business continuity' is becoming the new mantra for a more rapid adoption of IPv6. The perceived issues, not surprisingly are the lack of training and back-office readiness as already voiced at the Google Conference.
In the meantime the tier 1 networks are ready, the active IPv6 BGP table is now well over 3000 and shows a healthy growth, content is increasingly IPv6 accessible, operating systems are ready and IPv6 trickles down all the way to the eyeballs, in other words the end-user. Some end-user customers even switched to Comcast, just to be part of their IPv6 trial.
When I will see 'IPv6 ready' written on a Cisco Linksys box at Future Shop, I will buy one. I am also eagerly waiting for Videotron, my cable and internet provider, to follow in Comcast's steps.
And by the way, we were told that Cius is Android based and IPv6 ready.
IPv6 is doing well under the desert sun and summer heat.
Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy
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0:47
Detecting Cyber Assaults on Private Companies, Government Agencies - Dubbed "Perfect Citizen"
» CircleIDSiobhan Gorman reporting in the Wall Street Journal: "The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government's chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks..."
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0:30
The Other Side of Security
» CircleIDThe Denver edition of Security BSides took place a few weeks ago in a garage turned art gallery on the far end of Denver's emerging Santa Fe Arts District, right on the border between historic working-class neighborhoods and a rambling wasteland of building supply warehouses.
The nearly all-male crowd, dressed in jeans and black t-shirts or IT casual, started the morning with bagels and copious amounts of strong, dark Daz Bog coffee while discussing other computer security and hacking conferences they'd been to, or were planning to attend. Two full kegs from local favorite Breckenridge Brewery arrived shortly after noon.
BSides started last year as an alternative alongside DEFCON, RSA, and other big security events, and follows the loose "un-conference" model popularized by BarCamps a few years ago. As one of the BSides regulars explained, "this isn't some square-ass, like, sit around, don't talk to people thing."
The presentation I enjoyed most was "Top 10 Ways IT is Enabling Cybercrime," presented by Daniel J. Molina from Kaspersky Labs. He described how quickly threats are evolving, how many new threats are appearing every day, and explained that the targets aren't always who you'd expect. "I don't have cool stuff," many companies think, "I don't need to protect it." To the bad guys, money is cool stuff. Private information is cool stuff. Contact lists are cool stuff. We all have that stuff.
Most security programs are still based on the idea that data stays in the physical data center. Your iPhone or your boss's Blackberry proves that's not true. The data on your device is, in most cases, worth far more than the device itself. Insurance doesn't cover that. Corporate firewalls don't surround it. To users, as soon as they leave the building (maybe sooner), that laptop or other device is treated as a personal computer, and they engage in risky behavior.
As we move to devices we don't control, software-as-a-service we don't control, social networks we don't control, on and on and on, we allow insecurities we can't control (and most likely can't even detect) into our mission-critical business processes.
Another mistake he talked about is that the security industry overall focuses too much on protection, and not enough on detection or response. So we may not notice when the protection fails; if we do, we may not know what to do about it. We also leave information security as an IT responsibility, forgetting that the data as a whole belongs to the business as a whole—and for many companies, without the data, there is no business.
And finally: settling for compliance. Much like CAN-SPAM, the regulations on data protection are the minimum standard. It's what you have to do to avoid going to jail, to keep the auditor off your back, to cover your (ahem) continued employment. Compliance isn't enough to actually keep you secure, because even at their best the lawmakers can only write regulations for attacks they've already been told about. Compliance with regulations is the starting point, not the end goal. As an audience-member asked earlier in the day: how do you address the disconnect between the actual law or policy, the decision-makers, and reality?
As you can tell, much of this was intended for an enterprise IT crowd. My background is with ISPs and consumer internet services, so it was interesting to hear the differences and similarities in attitudes and approach. That question about laws, decision-makers, and policy certainly resonates when pondering email, spam, privacy, or email marketing.
There are so many security conferences these days that it's hard to figure out which are worth attending, which are even worth paying attention to. Security BSides is new, it's an upstart, the organizers are clearly learning how to run an event—but it's real, almost gritty. The speakers and attendees are people who do things, who know things. They live in the same world as Charles Stross's fictional Bob Howard, though he also has worse things to deal with.
When they tell us to be afraid it's because they've seen what's actually happening out there, not just because they have something to sell. So this, in my mind, is one event series to keep an eye on.
If you'll be attending DEFCON later this month, BSides has two days planned in Las Vegas immediately beforehand. They also have meetings planned this year in Kansas City, Atlanta, Dallas, and Ottawa.
This article was originally published by Return Path.
Written by J.D. Falk, Director of Product Strategy at Return Path
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22:43
Exclusive: The Man Who Nearly Partnered with Alleged Russian Spy Anna Chapman
» Elliot's Blog
Texas entrepreneur came close to partnering with alleged Russian spy on NYCRentals.com start upTo this single man from Houston, Texas, Anna Chapman was very attractive and well put together. Although she was not wearing provocative clothing when they first met at a trendy restaurant across from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the red-headed Chapman’s conservative Chanel suit and freshly styled hair was reminiscent of the classic Jackie O look. She looked good, but didn’t oversell her beauty.
During the initial meeting in early 2010, Chapman exuded a confidence the Texas Internet entrepreneur (who wishes to remain anonymous) wasn’t accustomed to seeing in women - “she was like a female with balls,” he shared, illustrating her directness and confident attitude. There wasn’t any indication that Chapman could be anything other than how she had been described, a successful entrepreneur who built a multi-million dollar business in Russia selling real estate online.
These two individuals were introduced out of the blue by the Russian wife of a friend of the Texan, who was acquainted with Chapman and knew she was looking for a New York real estate domain name to go with her business. NYCRentals.com hadn’t yet been fully developed, and it would be the perfect domain name on which Chapman could run her business in the US.
The Texan was intrigued by her beauty, and he was interested in working with someone who had been described as being very successful. He also believed she brought quite a bit to the table, as she had promised to help fund the company with somewhere between $150,000 – $200,000. The cursory details of the partnership sounded good to the Texan, whose other online business ventures and the “complicated Manhattan rental market” precluded him from building the business he first envisioned when he acquired NYCRentals.com for $5,250 in July of 2007.
The would-be partners subsequently met in person three or four more times over the next nine months or so to discuss business. Each meeting was held at a different upscale restaurant in New York City, and on two occasions, Chapman showed up with other men who were not a part of the deal.
For several months, the two would-be business partners frequently chatted on the phone and via text message, exchanging ideas and discussing their business deal. Chapman created a website for NYCRentals.com, and the Texas entrepreneur permitted the site’s launch, despite not having any working agreement. Concurrently, as reported by TechCrunch, Chapman was meeting with financiers and venture capitalists to discuss this business venture.
As the deal process continued to be drawn out, the Texan grew leery of Chapman and the promise of making money with her. There was something about her that he didn’t trust. After reading proposed contracts that contained strange contingencies and legalese, all in the hopes of earning somewhere around 3% gross, the Texan decided that it might be in his company’s best interest to sell the domain name instead of creating this partnership.
The Texan proposed an outright sale of the domain name to Chapman, and he set a price of $50,000 for it. Chapman pleaded with him to sell it for $20,000, and after subsequent discussion, they agreed to a deal at $25,350. The transaction was finalized through domain registrar Moniker, and it was reported in June’s Domain Sales Report in DNJournal, coming in at #11 of the week.
Shortly after finalizing the domain deal, the Texan began hearing about Chapman on the news and her alleged spying for Russia, and he realized just how lucky he was. Not only did he make a profit on the sale of NYCRentals.com in the amount of $20,000, he avoided a partnership that could have ended badly and possibly led to the seizure of his domain name.
Although he hasn’t been contacted by government officials, he is still pretty shocked about the entire turn of events. “I still do not believe it,” he said, “but I have faith in the country to know what they’re doing.”
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7,000 WhyPark Domain Apps Installed in Just 2 Days
» Domain Name WireDomain Apps off to strong start.
Just two days after WhyPark released its new Domain Apps, customers have installed 7,000 apps on their WhyPark domain names, WhyPark founder Craig Rowe told me this morning.
That’s a strong start, but Rowe is working on ways to make it even easier to add the content-rich, interactive apps to domain names.
“We have a bulk add feature to add apps to multiple sites,” he explained. “The next step is to map as many categories as possible to apps,” he said. This will allow apps to be automatically applied to domains as customers do a bulk upload.”
It’s been about 15 months since Parked acquired WhyPark, and Rowe says he hasn’t looked back. Revenue for customers is up across the board, thanks to Parked’s top tier ad feed.
“The feed has much better coverage than a second tier feed,” said Rowe. “Any of the high revenue earners like finance and health, it’s not even close on the second tier side. Anyone who tried WhyPark before the acquisition, we welcome them to try it again.”
With the better payout, WhyPark has attracted a number of large customers and better quality domain names.
One unique feature that many people don’t know about is the ability to add an automated newsletter to a domain. Visitors can double opt-in to the newsletter, and then receive an automatically generated newsletter each month with about 5 article headlines. This drives repeat traffic to the domain. Rowe provided one example of a domain that currently has about 4,000 double opt-in subscribers. The newsletter feature is available with a Managed account, which costs $25 per month.
One thing is for sure; WhyPark continues innovating. Rowe says being part of Parked.com makes it all possible.
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Moniker Releases Domain Auction Catalog for NYC (Already)
» Domain Name WireCatalog issued well in advance with some big names.
One of my (and others’) complaints about live domain name auctions is that the catalogs are released at the last minute. That hardly gives time for serious buyers to pull together the necessary money or approval to make big purchases.
But Moniker just released the auction catalog for its August 18 auction at DOMAINfest NYC. That’s a refreshing change.
The list of domains includes some of those big dollar domains that will require some thinking and planning time:
Rate.com
Quotes.com
Stocks.com
StockQuotes.com
Cable.com
Reggae.com
Patents.com
ByOwner.com 1-800-ByOwner®
Artist.com
Invitro.com
XXX.com
Alcohol.com
Testing.com
Voters.com
Lawsuits.com11 of the 111 domains are priced at $1 million or more, with two of them above $5 million: Patents.com and xxx.com.
Some other interesting domains in the auction:
Newlyweds.net – has a reserve of $50k-$100k, which is below the $130,000 paid for the domain at auction in 2008.
CJ.org – priced high, but affiliate company Commission Junction owns CJ.com. Commission Junction will be at Affiliate Summit in NYC just prior to the auction.
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19:18
SuperMedia Launches “Super” Domains
» Elliot's Blog
Pat Quinn from Big Iron Design emailed me this morning to share information for a follow-up to a post I wrote about SuperMedia’s acquisition of “Super” domain names. The company spent quite a bit of money acquiring domain names in the aftermarket, and it looks like they’ve launched a number of them.Some of their new portals include:
- SuperPlumbing.com
- SuperElectricians.com
- SuperMechanics.com
- SuperMortgages.com
- SuperRemodelers.com
- SuperHVAC.com
When you visit the websites above, SuperMedia seems to be using a redirect to AskLearnHire.com, followed by an immediate second redirect back to the website you visited (you can only notice it if you watch your url bar change). If you visit AskLearnHire.com directly, you can learn more about the purpose of these mini-websites. It appears that the company wants to build small websites for social networking and interactivity between businesses and consumers. In my opinion, this is a smart move.
SuperMedia hasn’t built all of their websites out yet, as SuperPainters.com, SuperMoving.com, and SuperFlorists.com, which were mentioned in my original article, have not been developed yet. It is very possible that they are testing these portals, perhaps supported by television and/or print campaigns.
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Marchex Defends Domain from New Debt Reduction Company
» Domain Name WireChronology of registration “fatal” to complainant’s case.
Marchex has successfully defended the domain name uFirst.com, which it acquired as part of the acquisition of Ultimate Search. The challenge was brought by a United First Financial, a company that claims it can help you “build wealth and eliminate debt simultaneously”. Some say the company is just a pyramid scheme.
Regardless of the merits of United First Financial’s business, one thing’s for clear: its UDRP case lacked any merit. Yun Ye first registered the domain name back in 2001. Marchex bought his portfolio in 2005. The complainant didn’t exist until 2007. So proving that Yun Ye or Marchex registered the domain name in bad faith would be impossible.
The three person panel wrote:
The fact that the domain name registration predates the earliest date where the Complainant might have had rights in the UFIRST mark is fatal to the complaint. Given the registration chronology, the undisputed facts foreclose the Panel’s finding bad faith registration and use under Policy 4(a)iii.
Case closed. And another win for John Berryhill.
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16:30
SnapNames .US Auction Ends Today
» Domain Name NewsSnapNames’ .US domain auction in honor of Independence Day ends in about 7 hours at 3:15pm ET. So far only 20 of the 86 domains have received bids. AirlineTickets.us is currently leading the pack with a bid of $1,615, but many domains such as candy.us, slots.us and flights.us are not attracting any bidders, even though names like this would sell in other extensions (slots.com and slots.ca are amongst recently reported sales). See the full list of domains up for bids on the SnapNames website.
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16:16
IPv6 Put Into Context and Explained on ICANN Blog
» DomainNews
To help explain IPv6, Leo Vegoda has penned a piece for the ICANN
Blog saying "there are a lot of addresses and lots of new things to
learn if you are only familiar with an IPv4 environment. But as we
implement IPv6 across our networks we will see IPv6 addresses popping up
in mail headers, system logs, traceroutes and all sorts of other places
where IPv4 used to be used exclusively. Knowing quickly whether an
address is part of your own network or someone else's; whether an
address is intended for private use or Internet use; and knowing whether
an address is used by a transition mechanism or a native connection
will help save lots of time."
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16:12
INDOM's comment on DAGv4
» Stephane Van GelderWe posted our comments on the latest draft of the Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs yesterday.
They can be read here. For those who don't have time to go to the ICANN website to read them, here's an excerpt giving the general gist of what we said:
"We feel the forced exclusion of ICANN-accredited registrars from the new gTLD program is unfounded, detrimental to consumer and applicant choice and would lead incumbents in the registry market to enjoy unfair protectionism. It must not be implemented in the Final Guidebook."
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16:07
Porn Industry Still Not Happy With .XXX
» DomainNewsThe porn industry is still railing against the likely introduction of the .XXX Top Level Domain with Violet Blue writing on the Carnal Nation blog she describes ICM Registry as "the professional URL grafters" with no support from the porn industry.
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15:18
SnapNames dot US Auction ends today
» DomainNews
SnapNames dot US Auction ends today in less than ten hours.So far ,only twenty of the 100 domain names have received bids .
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14:49
Nominet Awards Winners Announced
» I Squatted Your EUNominet Internet Awards were held last night.
The winners were as follows:
Getting people online - in association with Race Online 2012 - The Northern Grid for Learning
Making the Internet Safer - Beatbullying - CyberMentors
Opening the world of knowledge - British Library - Timelines: Sources from History
Empowering young people and citizens - SignTranslate
Nurturing powerful local partnerships - ACE IT - Moose in the Hoose
Special Award for International Engagement - Child International - Youth IGF Project
More details may be found on the Nominet site
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13:45
Fabulous.com Launches Yexa Beta for Registrars and Resellers – Exclusive Interview
» Domain Name News
As Andrew at Domain Name Wire revealed, Fabulous.com is going to be releasing a new solution for Registrars and Resellers by the name of Yexa. According to the PDF published on the preview site, that also hosts a sign-up form for the beta of the software, The software is going to allow customers to sell domains, SSL certificates and Hosting.
DNN chatted with Jen Sale about the launch and the features of the new product via Instant Messaging. Read the full interview and learn more about the new product after the jump.
DNN: Thank you Jen for taking the time to talk to DNN today about this new product by the name of Yexa you are going to be launching at HostingCon. Can you tell us more about it?
Jen Sale: Thanks Frank! Of course. Approximately six months ago, we were on the hunt for an all-inclusive platform to manage a new retail registrar. We spent almost two months researching and testing a number of solutions but found them confusing, incomplete and expensive. Plus, there wasn’t just one solution that would do everything we required, or at the level of quality we expect for both ourselves and our customers. It was at this point we discussed creating our own solution, and many of the people we spoke to along the way expressed great interest in what we planned to develop.
For our initial product release, we have developed two software solutions – Yexa Registrar and Yexa Reseller. These two products are designed to work in conjunction with each other, and will address the gap we believe exists in the current marketplace. Yexa Registrar provides a fully functional white-labelled registry-registrar manager with a built-in reseller network. Yexa Reseller provides a cohesive, easy to set up and use, retail-facing domain and hosting solution.
DNN: So who are those two solutions mostly meant for existing registrars and resellers or new ones? It seems an interesting expansion of focus for you, considering you are launching it at a hosting conference.
Jen Sale: The two software solutions will cater to both existing and new registrars and resellers.
Yexa Registrar services individuals with ICANN and/or other ccTLD accreditation. This allows them to manage either their own personal domains directly (domainers), or operate a retail registrar with the option of creating their own reseller network.
Yexa Reseller services people wanting to run a retail-facing domain and hosting business, regardless of whether they’re an ICANN registrar or not. Existing resellers who wish to expand their customer offerings, and/or explore better provider offerings, can integrate Yexa Reseller which will support existing software via a comprehensive API.
One of the things we’ve been repeatedly asked for is an interface similar to Fabulous.com, and whether we’d be white-labelling it in the future. So this product is really a natural progression for us in offering domain services to our domain portfolio customers, and also extending into new business.
We’ve been on both sides of the fence, and have found the market distinctly lacking in suitable solutions, and we think we can do better.
DNN: Considering Fabulous.com’s background it seems that the software is mostly focused on selling domain names, yet the brochure also mentions SSL Certificates and hosting. Are you going to be offering a suite of different products?
Jen Sale: Yexa Registrar is targeted to domain operators (registrars). Yexa Reseller enables someone to create and manage a website which sells a number of web services, which may include domains, hosting, SSL certificates and more.
Yexa is fully flexible and provider neutral. It aims to provide a maximum level of choice to resellers, no longer tying them down to a single provider. Moreover, its modular structure will allow third parties to write custom extensions, in turn expanding choice even further and allowing resellers to provide innovative offerings to their end-users.
DNN: That sounds like a very smart and forward thinking platform design.
Yexa is described as a software in your material and on the site, but yet the description (at least for Yexa Reseller) sounds more like it is actually a hosted service for your clients. Can you share some more details on how a reseller or registrar sets Yexa up on their own server? What is handled on the customer’s side, what’s taken care of on your end?
Jen Sale: Yexa is a software application which is installed on the clients server platform of choice. The software has been designed to run on either Windows, Linux or OS X. The databases supported are MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Minimum supported PHP is 5.1.
In most cases the client’s customer IP belongs solely to them and is stored on their servers. Only in certain situations where we distribute information on their behalf (such as WHOIS data) does customer data need to be stored on our servers.
DNN: This sounds like a good solution to an age-old problem as to who owns the customer.
From what I understand you’re aiming at a very easy wordpress-like install of the software. So does this mean you don’t need to be too technical to use your solution, but yet one can also build on it if there is technical in-house knowledge (since there is an API)?
Jen Sale: Our primary goal was to create an easy-to-use solution which has the flexibility to cater for more sophisticated requirements, and to grow with the client’s business.
DNN: Can you tell us anything about the pricing structure yet, or is this too early to ask?
Jen Sale: Yexa Registrar pricing is a tiered cost-plus model. Whereas Yexa Reseller is a tiered monthly software license, plus cost per provider unit model.
Our pricing will be extremely competitive!
DNN: Yexa is an interesting name for the product – how was the name chosen? I can see from the whois history that it was apparently bought from a Canadian Domainer – is it an abbreviation or just a short name?
Jen Sale: We chose the name because it’s short and easy to remember. No, it doesn’t abbreviate to anything.
DNN: Judging from the whois the company is a separate entity – is it wholly owned by Dark Blue Sea or is it a division of Fabulous.com?
Jen Sale: Yexa is wholly owned by Fabulous.com’s parent company, Dark Blue Sea.
DNN: You took care of the DomainDistribution Network before and Yexa is your latest project – what was and is your involvement with this new product?
Jen Sale: I’ve been closely involved with the project since its inception, and have the dual role of Product Manager and Business Development Manager. I will also continue to manage the Domain Distribution Network and ROAR.
DNN: Thank you very much Jen again for taking the time for chatting with DNN and telling us more about your new product. We’re looking forward to learning more as the work progresses.
Jen Sale: You’re very welcome Frank! Thanks for the opportunity. If anyone would like more information, please sign-up for our exclusive beta program at www.yexa.com.
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13:41
Internet Innovation and Creativity Recognised by Nominet's Annual Industry Awards
» DomainNews
Charities and public sector organisations led the charge at last night’s Internet Awards ceremony. Successful entrants were recognised for their exemplary work in making the Internet a more secure, open, accessible or diverse experience.
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10:29
Test Track Dublin open for submissions
» DomainNews
Test Track Dublin is accepting business ideas .Therefore,if you started a business or thought of a business idea,you can submit it for the next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference .
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10:27
Telnic Increases .tel data Portability with hCard, OAuth and OpenID
» DomainNews
Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the award-winning, communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that all .tel names now support the hCard microformat, OpenID and Open Authentication (OAuth). In addition, Telnic also announced its support for the DataPortability Project (http://dataportability.org), signing up to its Portability Policy Initiative.
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10:04
Violet Blue on .XXX
» CircleIDWe seem to hear quite a bit from ICM about their .xxx TLD proposal.
People who might be interested in the view from the porn community might be interested in Violet Blue's article on the proposal. As you might expect, she is against and sees no real support from the porn world. She does not consider 153K defensive domain registrations as proof of demand.
I think she is probably right in predicting that the launch of .xxx will spur a new attempt on the part of Congress to require adult sites to register in .xxx. Which proposal will of course be struck down by the Supreme Court (what part of Congress shall make no law to license the press...), but only after an interminable legal fight. The CDA fight only just finished a little over a year ago.
What will always remain unclear is exactly what the purpose of .xxx is supposed to be. Is it to make it easier for pornographers to advertise their work or for various authorities to block it? I find the claims unconvincing in either case.
Over the past decade the US government has quietly invested a significant amount of money in developing and deploying technologies to work around censorship systems. Last year we saw some of the effects of that investment during the protests against the stolen election in Iran. While the outside world was following Twitter, the information chain inside Iran and connecting Iran to the outside world employed a rather broader set of tools.
As Dogbert said of this particular problem, an snowball can survive a surprisingly long time in hell if you give it a paper pointy hat.
Written by Phillip Hallam-Baker, Consultant, Author, Speaker
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Zuccarini Sues NameJet, eNom, VeriSign, and Network Solutions
» Domain Name WireLawsuit filed after expired domains sold on NameJet.
John Zuccarini has filed a complaint (pdf) against NameJet, eNom, VeriSign, and Network Solutions in U.S. District Court over the transfer and auctioning of a number of his domain names.
A number of Zuccarini’s domain names were transferred to a court-appointed receiver due to a judgment against Zuccarini in an anti-cybersquatting case. The receiver accidentally let some of the domain names expire, and the domain names were auctioned off on NameJet. (The domains were at Network Solutions, which sends all of its expired domains to NameJet.) A court denied a request for an emergency injunction against the domain names sold at NameJet.
The suit claims breach of contract, conversion, and civil conspiracy. Zuccarini is asking for the transfer of the domains to another party (the receiver) to be deemed illegal and void, payment of the approximately $80,000 the parties earned from auctioning the domains, and significant damages.
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Finland's Broadband USO an Inspiration for Europe
» CircleIDEurope's governments are increasingly acting on the popular belief that the Internet should be a basic right, and that citizens not disposed to using IP-based services should nevertheless have access to its infrastructure. As such, governments either have already introduced legislation to this effect or are in the process of doing so. First off the block was Switzerland: from January 2008 Swisscom's 10-year renewed USO (universal service obligation) has included the provision of broadband at a regulated price. In remote mountainous regions Swisscom may choose to service customers with a lower-speed mobile connection, but as HSPA technology improves there is no significant disadvantage in this. Given the country's excellent DSL and cable infrastructure, the number of people who have been provisioned with broadband through the USO currently runs to less than three thousand. In Finland, broadband is now part of the USO (for some 26 operators in each geographical area), in Italy it will become so by the end of 2010, in Spain from January 2011. Other countries with similar legislation and plans include France and the UK. As for the EC, it envisages making the provision of broadband compulsory across the EU27 by 2013, with access of at least 30Mb/s required by 2020.
Finland's approach may be a guide for other European governments and regulators. The country's Communications Markets Act, amended in October 2009 and which came into force this month, requires telcos subject to a USO to provide broadband as a universal service at a reasonable price. Universal service is defined as technology-independent, meaning that broadband can be provided by a fixed-line or wireless connection. The revised Act increased the previous 30-50Kb/s Internet access rate required under the former USO to 1Mb/s. This speed increase means that the service must also be implemented with upgraded wireless solutions across rural areas of the country. The regulator is responsible for monitoring the price of broadband through the USO and to codify and list comparisons of these to the price levels of other telecoms services, but it does not have the power to lay down a price limit for a subscription before those services are available on the open market. It has, however, suggested a monthly fee of between €30 and €40 as appropriate. The government intends that universal access to broadband would be paid for by operators, and that no public funding was to be used. Nevertheless, the Communications Market Act provides that if the regulator deems that the cost to operators is excessive then they can be compensated from State funds.
The Act represents the first step in an ambitious program to make 100Mb/s broadband universal by the end of 2015, which of necessity anticipates 4G (LTE) mobile network upgrades to be widely available. The target may be ambitious, but since mid-2008 telcos, utilities and housing associations have ramped up their fibre network investments, extending fibre beyond the major cities and their suburbs to incorporate other communities as well. In smaller population centres fixed broadband is still predominantly provided via the copper network, though the inherent limitations of copper are rapidly being addressed: in September 2009 TeliaSonera, with equipment provided by Alcatel-Lucent, deployed the country's first 100Mb/s hybrid FttB/VDSL2-based network. In sparsely-populated areas wireless broadband is currently provided by Digita's network, utilising the 450MHz band. Naturally, the government has emphasised fibre as a solution for the future—the regulator estimated that by 2015 about 94% of household connections would be within 2kms of the national fibre network. The cost of connections was estimated at between €2,000 and €3,000 per household, with some more remote areas costing up to €10,000 per household.
The recent experience of TeliaSonera, Tele2 and Telenor with LTE in neighbouring Norway and Sweden is encouraging, for it augurs well for the provision of high-data mobile broadband in rural areas. TeliaSonera, of course, secured a world first commercial LTE service in Oslo and Stockholm in late 2009, and is currently working to expand the network to 25 cities in Sweden and four in Norway. Early adopters report that LTE provides realistic data rates of up to 70Mb/s when close to base stations—of which the company has deployed about 1,500 in Stockholm alone. Tele2 and Telenor—through their joint venture Net4Mobility—plan to deploy LTE in 100 Swedish cities by the end of 2011 after launching in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmo, Karlskrona and Lund before the end of this year. The operators expect to cover 99% of the population by the end of 2013.
In sum, during the next few years in Scandinavia, as well as in a few other choice European countries, there will be a healthy alignment between regulatory efforts to ease the expansion of fast broadband (both fixed-line and mobile) and the technologies to make this realisable in principle.
Written by Paul Budde, Managing Director of Paul Budde Communication
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Domain Masters Radio Show – Live At 7pm – Chef Patrick and Victor Pitts
» ChefPatrick.comJust a quick note to let you know tonight I will be co-hosting Domain Masters radio show with Victor Pitts. This will be my first of many appearances as the new co-host of Domain Masters. Be sure to tune in tonight at 7pm est as we do a LIVE show. Guests will be free to chat [...]
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Bruce Schneier: The Threat of Cyberwar Grossly Exaggerated
» CircleIDSecurity expert Bruce Schneier in a blog post today writes: "It's about who is in charge of cyber security, and how much control the government will exert over civilian networks. And by beating the drums of war, the military is coming out on top. ... General Keith Alexander, the current commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, hypes it every chance he gets. This isn't just rhetoric of a few over-eager government officials and headline writers; the entire national debate on cyberwar is plagued with exaggerations and hyperbole."
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Fabulous to Launch Yexa Software for Managing Domain Business
» Domain Name WireSister company to popular domain registrar offer domain reseller and registrar software.
Dark Blue Sea, parent company of domain name registrar and parking company Fabulous, is getting ready to unveil Yexa this month.A brochure for the product describes it as “turnkey, friendly and affordable software to build and manage your domain and hosting business.”
Yexa for Resellers will allow businesses to sell domain names, hosting, SSL certificates, and other products. Yexa for Registrars enables ICANN accredited domain name registrars to buy, sell, and manage domain names. It also allows registrars to create their own domain name reseller network.
Yexa is currently in private beta, and the company plans to start its marketing push at HostingCon, taking place in Austin TX July 19-21.
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