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August 26, 2010
1:43
Prince.com Reigns On DN Journal's Weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart After 6-Figure Sale
» ‎ Domain Name Journal

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The top sale ranks among the year's 25 biggest to date. Nine country code domains made the all extension leader board and we also saw one of the year's five biggest non .com gTLD sales this week.

0:56
If you build it, they will come
» ‎ ICANN blog

As you would expect, most of ICANN’s external services, including this blog, are available over IPv6 as well as IPv4. And at the request of the ICANN Board, a regular comparative measure of IPv6 use at the ICANN and IANA websites has been provided to them for months. The good news is that the trend from the measurement shows an increase in the use of the ICANN and IANA web sites using IPv6. IPv6 hits on our web sites in June were about 1.7% of all hits.

The peaks in IPv6 access, which is shown in red on the graph, closely correlate with ICANN meetings. IPv6 connectivity is provided as standard at ICANN meetings and lots of meeting attendees have been using it without knowing while using the free WiFi.

So, as the graph shows, we have had peaks in IPv6 access alongside the October 2009 ICANN meeting in Seoul, the March 2010 ICANN meeting in Nairobi and June’s ICANN meeting in Brussels. There was also a peak in January 2010, which we believe is associated with the IANA Business Continuity Exercise that took place on the 19^th of January, thus users were preferring the IPv6 transport while IPv4 provision was in flux.

What is perhaps more heartening than the peaks associated with the ICANN meetings, is that the troughs in April and May 2010 are far less shallow than those seen in December 2009 and February 2010. There is growth in IPv6 traffic! While at the start of the process we had to use a magnifying lens to see the changes, they are definitely becoming more obvious.

ICANN will continue to assess the adoption of IPv6 worldwide and make reports at regular intervals. ICANN also encourages all organizations to make sure they are – or will be – implementing IPv6 on their networks.

0:44
Domainvermarkterforum Announces Live Domain Name Auction Featuring German Keyword & Country Code Domains
» ‎ Domainers Magazine

The DomainvermarkterForum 2010 (www.domainvermarkterforum.de), Germany’s only dedicated domain name conference, announced today that it will partner with Moniker® (www.moniker.com) and SnapNames® (www.SnapNames.com), both Oversee.net® companies, to incorporate a special live domain auction at their sixth conference. The conference is scheduled for September 2 and 3 at the five-star Hotel Sofitel Bayerpost Munich, with the live auction starting Wednesday, September 3, 2010 at 8:00 a.m. US Eastern time and 2:00 p.m. European Summertime.

August 25, 2010
23:30
Verizon: Advent of 4G LTE, WiMAX-Based Devices Will Only Increase the Need for IPv6
» ‎ CircleID

Verizon Business has a message to companies still reluctant to migrate their networks to IPv6: You're better off doing it now than later. William Schmidlapp, Verizon Business's product manager for Internet dedicated access services, says that the advent of 4G LTE and WiMAX-based devices will only increase the need to switch over to IPv6, since each of those devices will require its own IP address…

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More under: Broadband, IP Addressing, IPv6, Mobile, Wireless
23:23
Russian Cybercrime is Organized / Russian Cybercrime is Not Organized
» ‎ CircleID

I like to read other people's stories when it comes to spam, and I like Box of Meat. It's always alerting me to interesting stories around the web that deals with cyber security. But the more I read, the more I see conflicting views on the state of the criminal cybercrime world. On the one hand, the Russian criminal cybercrime underworld is a scary, organized place where people are actively trying to do the rest of us harm. On the other hand, there is the position that that position is an exaggeration of what it is actually like and that it's a bunch of ragtag folks who have some advanced computer skills but they are not formally organized. They trade amongst each other for the highest prices and exchange goods and services like the open market but they are not colluding with each other. I see this very similarly to how I see cyber warfare—on the one hand there are the hawks who believe national cyber threats are behind every corner, and on the other hand there are the doves (for lack of a better word) who claim there is no national cyber threat, it's all about crime that has moved online.

Consider excerpts from this article from the New York Times:

MOSCOW—On the Internet, he was known as BadB, a disembodied criminal flitting from one server to another selling stolen credit card numbers despite being pursued by the United States Secret Service. And in real life, he was nearly as untouchable—because he lived in Russia. BadB's real name is Vladislav A. Horohorin, according to a statement released last week by the United States Justice Department, and he was a resident of Moscow before his arrest by the police in France during a trip to that country earlier this month.

...

The seizing of BadB provides a lens onto the shadowy world of Russian hackers, the often well-educated and sometimes darkly ingenious programmers who pose a recognized security threat to online commerce—besides being global spam nuisances—who often seem to operate with relative impunity.

Law enforcement groups in Russia have been reluctant to pursue these talented authors of Internet fraud, for reasons, security experts say, of incompetence, corruption or national pride. In this environment, BadB's network arose as "one of the most sophisticated organizations of online financial criminals in the world," according to a statement issued by Michael P. Merritt, the assistant director of investigations for the Secret Service, which pursues counterfeiting and some electronic financial fraud.

...

According to the Secret Service statement, Mr. Horohorin managed Web sites for hackers who were able to steal large numbers of credit card numbers that were sold online anonymously around the globe. Those buyers would do the more dangerous work of running up fraudulent bills. The numbers were exchanged on Web sites called CarderPlanet carder.su and badb.biz—according to the Secret Service, and payment was made indirectly through accounts at a Russian online settlement system known as Webmoney, an analogue to PayPal.
...
Computer security researchers have raised a more sinister prospect: that criminal spamming gangs have been co-opted by the intelligence agencies in Russia, which provide cover for their activities in exchange for the criminals' expertise or for allowing their networks of virus-infected computers to be used for political purposes—to crash dissident Web sites, perhaps.

Reading this article, you would come away with the impression that these guys are very good at what they do—they have extensive computer hacking and social engineering skills, are well educated not to mention being good at money laundering (or being affiliated with people who are good at it). We see terms such as 'sophisticated' being used to describe these people. They are a definitive threat and the odds of actually arresting them are small; when they are arrested, it is seen as the exception and not the norm. In any case, they are not a ragtag bunch of people but instead are well organized and intentional about their behavior.

Worse yet, there are possible collusions between themselves and national intelligence agencies. This makes the general public even more concerned because the not-so-subtle implication is that not only do these people have extensive hacking skills, they could potentially use this to cripple national infrastructure if a hostile government, directed by an intelligence agency, instructed them to do so. The general public isn't entirely clear on what spy agencies do anyway, but in our cultures we are ingrained with the belief that they do some nasty stuff. Just imagine what they could do with a small army of hackers.

However, contrast that article with excerpts from this one in eWeek:

When people think of cyber-crime, the typical image being pushed today is that of highly organized criminal operations. New research, however, suggests the underbelly of cyber-space may be less mafia-like than some think. In an effort to improve the level of understanding of today's black hats, security researchers Fyodor Yarochkin and "The Grugq" have spent several months looking at Russian hacker forums.

"It is an ongoing project that we started about 18 months ago," Grugq told eWEEK. "Originally it started when Fyodor investigated some service offerings from Russian hacker forums for a specific project that I was working on. It turned out to be extremely interesting and amusing, so we discussed doing more long-term monitoring on the forums. It grew from there into what is now a continuous monitoring program."

Their research was presented last month at the Hack in the Box 2010 conference in Amsterdam. What the two found was that the image of a highly organized cyber-underworld run by hardcore criminals is not the order of the day. Instead, the dozen or so hacker forums they analyzed illustrated that many of the users are "geeks, not gangsters," the researchers said.

"Basically, from what we've seen on the forums much of what goes on with the sales of services is much more petty criminal activity, or crimes of opportunity," Grugq said. "Often poor students who like to hack for fun will sell access to a server they've owned. Many don't even realize that this is an illegal activity. This sale will be for $20 or $30, which is a lot of money for a poor student in Russia, but for a hardened criminal mastermind bent on destroying Western civilization—not so much."

...

"In terms of percentage, there'd be two to three guys working on stuff professionally, versus 10 to 20 hobbyists," he continued. "Most of the activity is essentially petty criminal activity where guys are trying to make a little extra cash on the side. You can think of it as a self-organizing hierarchical system with needs and people able to provide goods and services to satisfy the needs."

...

"From what we can guess," Grugq said, "any [mob] involvement is more along the lines of some people at the very top of the stack have to pay off the real gangsters. ... So, for example, if you are organizing a massive credit card cash-out scam which nets millions of dollars, you'll have to pay protection money to the mob to not get robbed. It doesn't look like the mob itself is organizing these cash-outs though.

"We're not disputing that organized crime is involved with cyber-crime, but the popular conception of leather jacketed thugs running around with firearms and laptops is not in line with what we have observed from the actual communities," he said. "It seems like it is very useful for some companies to popularize the scary idea of Russian cyber-gangsters, but honestly the involvement seems to be much more hands off."

This is quite a bit different than the perspective offered by the first article. Here, we still have perpetrators that are advanced hackers with strong computer skills. However, they are not organized amongst each other and view their craft like a bunch of frat boys. They boast amongst themselves. They argue amongst themselves. They don't even seem to realize that what they are doing is illegal. What makes the problem so widespread is that the cost of technology has dropped so much and Internet access has become so ubiquitous that they can do a lot of damage with limited human resources.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how many hackers who get arrested are arrested because of their own hubris. They do not have their egos in check and therefore end up leading a cyber paper trail straight to their lairs. Their lack of life experience leads to carelessness, and when that occurs they get caught. It is more of a bunch of individual actors doing stuff, trading stuff, trying to make some money. This is hardly the portrait painted by the New York Times.

So which portrait is correct?

Well, to be sure, there are many hackers out there that are hobbyists, and they are the ones that get caught. But it certainly seems like there are plenty of organized criminal groups out there (such as Avalanche). A conspiracy is often a "nice" way to explain all that's wrong in the world, but most conspiracies rarely hold up to close examination (never attribute to malfeasance what you can simply attribute to incompetence).

My theory is that this is a variant of the Pareto principle. The Pareto principle, also called the 80/20 rule, states that 80% of the effects are from 20% of the causes. In a business, 80% of the revenue comes from 20% of the sales. 80% of the systems crashes are caused by 20% of the bugs. 80% of the movement on the stock market comes on 20% of the days (not sure if this one is true… it sure feels like it).

In the same way, 80% of the cybercrime is caused by 20% of the cyber criminals. The other 80% of the cyber criminals do some damage and are not so difficult to back trace. They are nuisances and commit online fraud but will always remain small potatoes. By contrast the good ones, the 20%, are very good at what they do. They are smaller and better and cause more damage, and get paid more. The reason they get paid more is because they are more skilled and have the full repertoire—good computer skills and good people management skills, that is, the ability to stay anonymous.

People who are good at their craft usually make more money, and in order to stay alive in the criminal underworld (that is, without getting arrested), you need to be good. Not everyone is good at what they do (like the players on my favorite football team which explains their current 2-6 record). The ones who aren't that good browse forums and chat openly about stuff. They don't make too much money. The ones who are good are busy honing their craft, coming up with new ways to separate people from their money and they don't browse forums. They are spending their time getting better at what they do, not raising their profile.

That's why the second article paints a picture of a disorganized structure of hackers. The hackers that they can examined fall into the 80% that just aren't the kingpins of the industry. That's why the first article paints a picture of doom and gloom, they are studying the elite group of hackers that are difficult to catch and more difficult still to profile.

That's my theory.

Written by Terry Zink, Program Manager

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22:55
Guest Post: CIRA’S .CA “Election” Is On
» ‎ Elliot's Blog
Zak Muscovitch from DNattorney.com writes this guest column on the Canadian domain name registry elections that are currently underway.

Canada’s .CA registry, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is run by a Board of 15 Directors. A single seat has opened up for the public, and I am running in the election for it. The other four seats that are up for an “election” are already locked by CIRA for its own hand-selected nominees, who do not represent the domain name community at all. In fact, CIRA’s “Nominations Committee” rejected the application of at least four prominent Canadian domainers. So, although there will be an “election” for five seats in total, this is the kind of “election” that we are accustomed to in non-democratic countries. You will recall that Saddam Hussein regularly won elections with 98% of the vote.

I have however, decided seek the single vacant Board position available to the public. If I get on the Board, I will vigorously put domainer issues on the agenda. Most Canadian domain investors will readily tell you that they believe that CIRA rules, regulations, policies, and procedures, stifle the growth of the .CA space. This opinion is borne out by Verisgin’s report which shows that Canada does not even rank within the top 10 ccTLD’s in terms of number of registrations. In fact, in 10 years, CIRA has only registered 1.5 million domain names, a paltry number when compared to other ccTLD registries. I believe that the depressed .CA market is directly tied to Canda’s lacklustre performance in Internet commerce. The CFO of Google, who is Canadian, said in February, 2010, that Canada is in danger of missing the digital revolution altogether.

My objective is to help CIRA improve the .CA space by listening and responding to the needs of the public, and to domain name investors in particular. I believe that domain name investors are the chief stakeholders in the registry and are experts in how to build and grow online businesses, and should be recognized as such. Domain names are the “cornerstones” of Internet commerce. By dramatically increasing the prominence and visibility of .CA domain names, they will increase in value, and that is great for Canada’s digital economy. The way to achieve this is primarily, to remove the archaic red tape that binds .CA domain names like ancient mummies.

Many of you know that I have been an advocate for .CA domain name owners for over ten years and that I can be counted on to continue to make sure that the issues that are important to you, get heard, loud and clear at CIRA.

Voting will take place from September 22 to 29, 2010, but in order to vote, you must become a member of CIRA. CIRA membership is open to all .CA domain name owners, and involves a simple application, which is separate from having a CIRA registrant login. A registrant login is not the same as a CIRA membership. You need both.

Please REGISTER TO VOTE NOW BY BECOMING A CIRA MEMBER. You can register to become a CIRA member by clicking here:

[https:]

This should take you five minutes, and involves uploading ID, or appointing a guarantor. Uploading the ID is a faster process for CIRA to process. CIRA has been very slow to process memberships, so please do not wait, and register to be a voting member now!

YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY AUGUST 30, 2010 to be eligible to vote!

Members can also Show Support for my candidacy from August 26, 2010 at noon (ET) until 6:00 p.m. I require 20 ‘shows of support’ to be able to run as a candidate for the eventual vote to be held between September 22, to 29, 2010.

For More Information:

CAMAPIGN WEB SITE: http://zak-for-cira.ca

EMAIL: zak@muscovitch.com

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22:45
Save the Date! Learn About Meetings For the Next Decade Survey Results and Next Steps
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25 August 2010
22:45
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21:56
The IDN ccTLD Landscape: .рф and .日本
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
by Aaron Krawitz, Gary Males & Patrick Carleton

[This article explores the latest with IDN ccTLDs such as .рф and .日本. Aaron Krawitz of IDNBlog and Gary Males of IDNDemystified co-own IDNDroplist, IDNTools and IDNNewsletter. Patrick Carleton is Executive Director of Associated Cities. -Andrew]

Change is afoot in the world of IDN ccTLDs.

Just a few days ago, we learned that the registry, JPRS, was the only one to apply to manage the .日本 IDN ccTLD (meaning “.Japan” in Japanese). JPRS is the current .JP registry and has previously spoke out in favor of aliasing or unlocking .JP in an IDN equivalent. As such, the practical implication of the above application is that we will likely soon see owners of IDN.JP domains owning IDN.日本 names as well.

Hiro Hotta the Director of Corporate Planning at JPRS previously stated: “In my opinion, the registrant of IDN.jp should automatically have the right to register IDN.日本 . . . [i]t is relatively easy for [the] .JP registry (JPRS) to implement this aliasing.”

Meanwhile, the release of .рф IDN ccTLD (meaning “.RF” in Russian) is on track. The sunrise period is currently open to trademark holders, with a number of .рф sites already having gone live, and landrush is to follow this fall.

Awareness

There are several material implications of the IDN ccTLD progress, the first of which is greater awareness of IDNs in general. As IDNs are in the news on a daily basis, investors, developers and end-users are realizing that IDN.com domains exist now, IDN.IDN-ccTLD names will exist soon and these foreign language domains are great platforms to use in order to engage users in their native languages.

Extension Question

Though the publicity of IDN ccTLDs are having a positive effect on the awareness and value of IDN.com names, such new ccTLDs also pose a competitive threat. In the world of IDNs, to many it seems like buying an IDN.com is the intuitive choice as .COM is already a global brand. However, in many markets, new IDN ccTLDs will be available long before an internationalized IDN.com-in-IDN domain will be available, and such IDN ccTLDs will at times have the advantage of being the first IDN.IDN in a certain region.

Consequently, it is anyone’s guess as to whether the new IDN ccTLDs, ASCII .COM, or the future IDN .COM alias becomes the extension of choice for IDNs in a given country and the prudent investor should buy both.

Opportunities Overlooked

Lastly, amidst the blockbuster releases of IDN ccTLDs for Japan and Russia, smaller countries tend to get overlooked even though they too are releasing IDN ccTLDs. IDN opportunities will surely abound in these smaller markets as well.

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20:53
IT Risks for Cloud Computing
» ‎ CircleID

As the industry-wide paradigm shift to cloud computing and software-as-a-service gradually continues to make the transition from buzz to reality, security and availability continue to emerge as the main barriers to customer adoption. A recent ISACA survey of over 1,800 US IT professionals found that only 17 percent believe the benefits of cloud computing outweigh the risks. Only one in 10 respondents said they would consider using software-as-a-service (SaaS) for mission-critical applications.

While some of this hesitance can probably be attributed to an overabundance of caution and the general human tendency to be wary of change, some security concerns are well-founded.

Companies entrusting their sensitive data to a SaaS provider need to be reassured that the data cannot be accessed by unauthorized third parties, such as employees and other customers of the provider, whether at rest or in transit. Data leakage has always been a potential issue at the low end of the hosting market—budget customers on shared servers—but the co-tenancy sometimes involved in cloud computing carries the perceived risk of bringing the problem to enterprises. SaaS providers need to be open and transparent with their customers about their security precautions, such as their encryption and access control regimes, as well as their layers of physical security.

There are other concerns, such as distributed denial-of-service attacks. As DNS service providers and others can attest to, when you have many thousands, or millions, of customer accounts running on the same infrastructure, you increase the risk of that infrastructure becoming the target of an attack. It's the old all-your-eggs-in-one-basket problem. To a DDoS-attacker focused on extortion, political retribution or simple vandalism, a broad customer base looks more like a convenient, aggregated attack surface. They can channel their resources on a narrower choke point, getting their message across by attempting to cause maximum collateral damage.

Of course, the opposite case can also be made: securing systems can be an expensive proposition, and companies can actually benefit from the substantial economies of scale that SaaS providers offer in terms of cost and security. Benefits include the availability improvements brought about by consolidated patch management, the economics enabling a much more diverse technology base that is less vulnerable to exploits, and the ability to quickly respond to DDoS attacks by reallocating resources.

It's important that both SaaS providers and their customers do not overlook reliable DNS provision as a key component of their overall security strategy. Companies can often blow their budgets on a super-redundant hosting infrastructure and forget about DNS—the only way their customers can actually reach it. Far too many times DNS is allowed to become the weak link in the chain, making it an ideal target for would-be attackers. All DNS services must come with a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Accepting anything less than 100% up-time for that SLA means you are accepting downtime for your business.

SaaS customers, however, often forget about DNS. Signing up for Google Apps, for example, is fairly straightforward and free, so it's easy to be quickly lured into a false sense of security, believing that your critical applications now reside on one of the world's largest and most robust data centers. This is of course not completely true. While cloud services such as Google Apps have brought many efficiencies to enterprises, they usually do not natively support DNS resolution. If you've forgotten to effectively provision your DNS, and it goes down, so does your Google Apps.

For a SaaS provider, surveys showing customer reluctance to adopt your services should of course be of some concern. But this hesitance also provides cloud computing companies with excellent opportunities to differentiate their services. When customers make buying decisions with security and availability as their primary concern, there's a clear incentive for SaaS companies to compete on security—a rising tide that carries all boats with it.

Written by John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services, Afilias

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20:33
Anatomy of a Domain Name Land Rush
» ‎ CircleID

The launch of a new or repurposed Top-Level Domain (TLD) is always surrounded with speculative activity. Some domainers will register domains in the new TLD with hopes of getting rich quick. Others will do so because the same domain in .com is worth a lot of money. And then there are the developers who see the prospect of building a carefully branded website in the new TLD. And with all those proposed new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), this cycle will be repeated. But what does a Domain Name Land Rush look like? It looks like this: HosterStats.com: Domain Landrush Graph .asia

The .asia sponsored Top-Level Domain (sTLD) is a very good example of how a new TLD evolves over the first few years of its operation. The Land Rush phase lasted from April 2008 to September 2008. During this time the numbers of new registrations massively outnumbered the numbers of deletions. For any new TLD, many of the domain name registrations during this period are speculative but there is also an element of brand protection as existing businesses register their brand in the new TLD. Brand protection registrations are a significant part of the registrations in new TLDs.

The end of the Land Rush phase in .asia occurred in September 2008. The volume of new registrations began to decline and the monthly registration figures started to move towards what would become the "normal" level of new registrations for .asia sTLD.

The first anniversary of the Land Rush phase is always a tough time for a new TLD. This is when many of the speculative registrations that could not be sold or monetised are dropped. This anniversary is sometimes referred to as the "Junk Dump". The deletions peaked in June 2009. However the interesting thing is that the numbers of new registrations remained relatively stable. The second Land Rush anniversary is when more of the domains that made it through the first anniversary are dropped. Some of these are reregistered domains that had been dropped in the first anniversary. The deletions in the second anniversary peaked in June 2010.

The new gTLDs will all go through a similar evolution. The Land Rush graphs may differ slightly but they will all have to deal with the first and second anniversaries and the deletions. But as with the gold rushes and the land rushes of old, those who made the real money sold the tools and supplies to the prospectors.

Written by John McCormac, CIO of www.hosterstats.com

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20:20
ICANN Colombia Promises to be Hot, Hot, Hot
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
by Crystal Peterson

[ICANN's 39th Public Meeting is headed to Cartagena, Colombia this December. While much of the world pushes through frigid winter, .Co Internet Senior Marketing Manager Crystal Peterson promises it will be nice and warm in Colombia. -Andrew]

I had the opportunity to travel to Cartagena in advance of the 39th Public ICANN meeting being held there in December. As the Sr. Manager of .CO Internet and therefore a host of the meeting, I am excited to welcome everyone to this warm, beautiful locale and wanted to share a bit of my experience now so that those that have never been know what to expect.

HOT! – Expect it to be hot, more hot and then a little more – yup….HOT. The heat will of course be very welcome for most of us by the time ICANN is scheduled in December. I am told that December will be just as warm, but not quite as humid as it is in August – there will be a breeze throughout the evenings coming from the water. Bring your swimsuits – there is a pool on top of or on the property of every hotel. I highly recommend that you plan an extra few days on either end of your trip (or better yet, on both ends!) to rest, relax and enjoy all the fantastic things Cartagena has to offer.

Eating – is fantastic! If you love fish — you are really in luck! The fish is fresh and simply fantastic! Ceviche is very heavily represented in many menus – and you’ll absolutely love it! However, if you are not a fan of fish, your options are still great. Every restaurant does have a selection of non-fish dishes and vegetarian dishes that reflect the local taste and culture, but I really encourage trying the fish. (Did I mention how delicious the fish was?)

Culture & Nightlife – get ready for fun. Cartagena is an extremely lively, vibrant and colorful city! I had the opportunity to stay both in the walled city as well as a hotel a little further away. I recommend everyone stay in the walled city. There are a few hotels identified on the ICANN local site and (as of the date of this posting), even more of the small venue, but awesome hotels inside the muralla (or wall) will be coming. Each evening within the city (which is walking distance to the Convention Center); there is music, local bars, horse drawn coaches and a lot to see and do. I felt very comfortable walking the streets from hotspot to hotspot. And the burning question on everyone’s mind? Where do we hang out?! Well….you’ll have to come to find out!

All I can say is that we (.CO Internet, ICANN and the beautiful country of Colombia) have a lot in store for everyone attending ICANN Cartagena in December. I can promise you one thing for sure — it’s gonna be Hot, Hot, Hot in every way! Don’t miss it!

Below: street dancing in Cartagena

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19:31

Targeted TRAFFIC Dublin 2010 Live Auction Results

» ‎ Domain Name News

We ~~will be~~ were live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted TRAFFIC Conference in Dublin, Ireland. As always we do not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Unsold names will be included in the Extended Silent Auction.

The auction sold 12 domains for a total of 86,820 Euro, approximately 110,200 USD.

You can see the live blogged results after the jump.

Domain(s)	Reserve	Status	Price
SeoulKorea.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
MunichGermany.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
WhiskeyExporters.com, WhiskeyDistributors.com WhiskeyExporters.com, WhiskeySuppliers.com, WhiskeyDistributors.com,WhiskeyWholesalers.com, WhiskeyProviders.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
UI.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
NicotinePatches.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
iStockmarket.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
NPR.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
DebitCard.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
DebtSolutions.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
4wd.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Cheesecakes.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
BS.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Italian.net	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	SOLD	15,400 Euro
OrganicBabyfood.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
GJ.net	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Mouse.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
CreditAlerts.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Lover.net	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
iDublin.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
SaaS.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Bankers.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
DA.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
PregnancyTest.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
X2.net	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
MedicalDisability.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Dublin.net	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Models.co.uk	100,000+ Euro	pass
Headache.org	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
ER.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Career.co.uk	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
HumanResources.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
IrelandProperties.eu	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
BookStores.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
74.co.uk	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
ArtificialSweetener.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Outsourcing.in	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
HomeSchooling.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
LDV.asia	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
7 Domain Disc Golf Lot including: DiscGolfDrivers.com, DiscGolfCarts.comDiscGolfDrivers.com, DiscGolfPutter.com, DiscGolfPutters.com, DiscGolfMidrange.com, DiscGolfCarts.com, DiscGolfShoes.com and MissouriDiscGolf.co	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
eFilms.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
JG.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Motorbikes.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Calculators.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Dominatrix.com, Dominatrix.us, TheDomin	100,000+ Euro	pass
NBAUpdates.com, NFLUpdates.com, MLBUpdates.com and NHLUpdates.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Restaurants.im	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
EQI.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	SOLD	3,000 Euro
GrapeDrink.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
BrewersYeast.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Seasonings.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Inns.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Andre.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
DublinAccommodations.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
DisposableIncome.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
ScotlandTours.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Java.in	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Ulster.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Balding.co.uk	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Musician.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Customer-Support.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
TrackAndField.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Lifts.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
WV.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
StopSmokingSupport.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
PetShops.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Doma.in	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Recados.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
L.biz	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
AER.asia	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Strippers.se	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
HawaiiBeaches.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
PreLaw.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
SEO.in	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
CreditCardMachines.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
NorthernIreland.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
ForexExchange.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
TaxConsultants.co.uk	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
CTR.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
CBD.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
VideoPoker.asia	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
AXJ.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Microphones.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	SOLD	3,150 Euro
MakeMoney.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
~~iAntiques.com~~	~~1,501 – 5,000 Euro~~	removed
Keyboard.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Gold.co.uk	100,000+ Euro	pass
GreensFee.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Disabled.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
GreensFees.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Analyst.co.uk	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
BankAuctions.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
WomensNutrition.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
LHS.asia	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Cruise.lc, Cruises.lc and Golf.lc	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
BreastEnhancement.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Catamarans.co	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
eAutoLoans.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Music.co.uk	100,000+ Euro	pass
Pedicure.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Shut.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Kyiv.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
DublinConcerts.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Portugal.biz	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Pearl-Earrings.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Consolidate.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Html.in	1 – 1,500 Euro	SOLD	770 Euro
Taurine.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
BJD.com, .net, .org, .info, .us	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Majors.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
ShortFilms.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	SOLD	58,000 Euro
Flori.st	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
AutoInsuranceCompanies.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Folders.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
KAS.asia	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
BullRiders.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Crunchy.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Saws.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
D3.eu	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
NRR.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
SupremeCourt.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
UNP.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Installs.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Cashout.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
HedgeFundBroker.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
VancouverFishing.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Kleptomania.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
RateQuote.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Anniversary.org	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Enlist.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
75.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
8.ag	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
TBU.de	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
GiantPanda.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
iApartment.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Planners.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
CorkDoctors.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
IrishBlog.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
BreastCancer.net	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Tower.us	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
ChocolateDrink.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
HomeRefinancing.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Luimneach.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Recovery.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
ChildrensNutrition.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
BecomingHealthy.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
WiFiSupport.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Dublin.co.uk	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
WorkAtHome.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
AXQ.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
DublinProperties.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
LAC.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
CollegePorn.eu	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Affiliates.co.uk	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Breaks.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
BusinessApparel.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
CabinRentals.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	removed
Rankings.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
SnoringMedication.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
PHP.in	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Congress.co.uk	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Photograph.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
BioMeds.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Disk.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
IrelandProperties.org	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
GourmetSnacks.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Effort.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Marina.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
AutoLoanCalculator.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
USK.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	SOLD	3,700 Euro
Pickles.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Discs.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
ddos.net	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Password.net	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
WorkOnline.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
DigitalImaging.com	100,000+ Euro	pass
Reference.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
PreSeasons.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Skaters.com	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
Skills.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	SOLD	100 Euro
Classy.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
DublinStorage.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Vouchers.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Magazines.us	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
WeLoveDublin.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
ShannonTourism.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	SOLD	125 Euro
MobilePhone.bz	1 – 1,500 Euro	SOLD	25 Euro
N.biz	20,001 – 100,000 Euro	pass
InternationalFlights.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Programming.in	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Incompatible.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Copper.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
EIU.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
DrinkMix.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
DublinDoctors.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Nr1.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Occupations.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Chamber.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Messages.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Advertisements.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Literary.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
GEQ.com	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Talking.net	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	SOLD	2,000 Euro
DublinGuide.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Employee.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
eNetwork.com	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
Equity.us	5,001 – 20,000 Euro	pass
PDFReader.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	SOLD	100 Euro
CMT.co.uk	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Party-Costumes.com	1 – 1,500 Euro	SOLD	450 Euro
Clip.us	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Pendulum.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass
Funds.us	1,501 – 5,000 Euro	pass
Waiver.net	1 – 1,500 Euro	pass

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18:49
Google May Change Domain Parking Requirements
» ‎ Domain Name Wire
DNS parking may be required in the future.

A few days ago Sedo informed its customers that its primary advertising provider (read: Google) may change the way it allows domains to be parked. URL forwarding will be out and all domains will need to be parked using DNS. This change has been rumored for a while and likely has to do with tighter control and transparency for parked domains, as well as changes to how parked ads are served technically.

According to the communication from Sedo:

Based on current discussions it is possible that our ad provider will cease its provision of advertising to URL-parked pages and in consequence only support DNS parked domains.

This step is considered by the online advertising provider in response to advertiser feedback and would affect all URL-parking customers at all parking companies worldwide that share this advertising provider. This change could happen in the near future (potentially as early as the fourth quarter of 2010) and we wanted you to have this information in advance to take into account for your internal planning.

If you already have your domains parked with a particular companies nameservers such as ns1.sedoparking.com, this won’t affect you.

© DomainNameWire.com 2010.

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17:10
Verizon Says Business Needs to Adopt IPv6
» ‎ DomainNews

With IPv4 addresses running out rapidly, Verizon says businesses are better off adopting IPv6 sooner rather than later.

13:49
Mega Bargains Month!
» ‎ ResellerClub Blog

As we mentioned in our previous post, Mega Bargains Month is returning this September and we’ve got a lot going on this time around.
Best Slab Prices…

Starting from the 1^st of September, 2010 right up to the 30^th, Domains and Digital Certificates will be available at Best Slab Prices (lowest possible prices) with a Major Discount on Web and Email Hosting.

For the entire month of September, .COM Domain Names will be available for as low as $8.39 and thawte Digital Certificates at just $24. Take a look at the Best Slab Pricing for our products here.

…And Mega Hosting

As far as Hosting is concerned, we’re dropping the price on the Unlimited Windows Hosting Package to just $1.99 i.e. a discount of over 20%.

Signing Up?

There’s no need to sign up! The Mega Bargains Month Pricing/Discounts will be applicable to all existing as well as new Resellers for the entire month. We’re also providing Marketing Kits to our Resellers to be able to market Mega Bargains Month to their Customers. You can take a look at them here. Alternatively, you can check out some of our earlier collaterals at our Resource Centre. Feel free to use whatever you need :)

A little about Mega Bargains Month:

Mega Bargains Month is an Annual ResellerClub Promo. We started with it in 2006 and it’s been going strong ever since. We typically offer massive discounts on all our Products and Services during Mega Bargains Month as a way to ensure greater profits to all our Resellers.

Looking forward to a great September!

10:40
Devisen.de tops Sedo's weekly sales list
» ‎ DomainNews

Devisen.de topeed Sedo's weekly sales chart at 55,930 EUR . Highlights include OutdoorFountains.com leading .com sales at $22,000 and Mesotheliomalawsuit.org leading the other category at $10,000 .
10:38
DomainFest Extended Auction ends today
» ‎ DomainNews

The Moniker.com extended auction from DomainFest ends today.The Moniker extended auction at DomainFest New York includes a number of six figure domain names .
10:36
ICANN authorizes bulk transfer of Lead Networks domains to Answerable.com
» ‎ DomainNews

ICANN has recently authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Lead Networks Domains to Answerable.com .
10:35
ICANN Publishes Draft Agreement on .XXX
» ‎ DomainNews

A Revised Proposed Registry Agreement with ICM to be designated as the Registry Operator for a .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain (.XXX), as well as documentation submitted by ICM Registry in connection with the expedited due diligence conducted at the direction of the Board are being posting for public comment.

4:15
Bulk Transfer of Domain Names from Lead Networks Domains to Answerable.com
» ‎ ICANN Announcements

24 August 2010

3:48
The Web is Dead: What This Means to ICANN, New gTLD Program and the Domain Industry
» ‎ CircleID

While we are spending years figuring out how to create the perfect generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) launch and guidebook, the Internet is moving along at an extraordinary pace without any care about ICANN policy-making. The fact of the matter is ICANN is a ghost to the ordinary person or Internet company. You can not imagine how many times I had to explain what ICANN is, what ICANN does and why ICANN is important.

While the Internet is moving along with exciting innovations and new platforms of communication, ICANN is still working at dinosaur pace, still playing catch up and still not aligning the realities of the Internet to policy-making. Interest groups, corporate monopolies, politics and conflicts of interest still rule supreme.

Chris Anderson, the editor of Wire Magazine, in a recent front-page Wired article called "The Web is Dead" proclaims that the world wide web is dead and we are experiencing the beginning of the next generation of the Internet. Anderson explains:

"Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services—think apps—are less about the searching and more about the getting. You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad—that's one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times—three more apps. On the way to the office, you listen to a podcast on your smartphone. Another app. At work, you scroll through RSS feeds in a reader and have Skype and IM conversations. More apps. At the end of the day, you come home, make dinner while listening to Pandora, play some games on Xbox Live, and watch a movie on Netflix's streaming service. You've spent the day on the Internet—but not on the Web. And you are not alone."

The reality of the matter is that the web is not quite dead yet. It is evolving. Devices are becoming more and more important than ever before. Mobile devices have paved way for the app revolution. These apps do not reside on the web but on the Internet for the purpose of creating a better user experience for the consumer as well as creating "closed" and "controlled" economies bound by distribution gatekeepers. This might be the beginning of the death of the "open" web as we see it. The move away from Flash programming in mobile devices in favor of non-web-based applications illustrates the gradual move away from a web-centric Internet, but the reality of the matter is that the Web will continue to exist given the human need for open-access to information and connecting with like-minded communities or social networks.

One point is certain. ICANN is wasting precious time trying to create a perfect solution in regards to new gTLDs. Can ICANN predict the future? No-one thinks so, but ICANN's propensity to solve any possible problem that might arise is clouding the process itself. ICANN is well-equipped and capable of dealing with any secluded abuse that might arise and react to any potential future issue. ICANN is losing its prime focus and is distancing itself from real task at hand which is no other than to introduce innovation and competition in the domain space and expand the Web.

The odds against new entrants are high. However, ICANN still insists on archaic concepts such as not allowing new registries to engage in free-trade, be able to sell direct as well as be flexible to introduce their own innovations. The self-proclaimed ICANN Business Constituency that should be all about free-trade claims that free trade is a terrible idea for new registry entrants and keeping the monopolistic, restrictive and anti-business regime at bay with the status quo is the best option for businesses. The ICANN Business Constituency that alleges to represent small-business interest and open, free markets is what your typical economist will call an oxymoron that is inconsistent with the modern economic framework of business practices. Does it have credibility? None whatsoever. I can only imagine what happens behind closed doors for a Business Constituency to oppose free trade for new entrants.

While the Internet moves towards a new direction, ICANN stands and ponders on issues that delay innovation, competition and the expansion of the Web. Big brand holders are still complaining about implementing more trademark mechanisms or further improving the existing ones that were created to please them. Why is ICANN wasting more time with that? Is there a method to retrieve your trademarked domain if someone else is abusing it? Yes. ICANN has gone beyond what is necessary. Will new gTLDs introduce more harm or benefits to the Internet society? If ICANN is all about open-access, free trade, competition, fairness and represent the Internet community, it has to align itself with what is happening in the Internet space today and not be stuck in the '90s.

The Web is not perfect. The big brands and corporations that ICANN seeks to protect who are delaying everything are not perfect. For example, the Web has been used by companies such as Google and Internet Service Providers to piggyback on intellectual property issues. What ICANN is dealing with in regards to implementing additional trademark mechanisms is tiny in regards to the harm that has been inflicted by many corporations that are regarded as the "backbone" of the Web. Google and major ISPs have been piggypacking intellectual property owners for their own profit and not much has been done about it. Both Google and the ISPs have been profiting from the unauthorised distribution of copyrighted works. Google makes money and generates traffic so they do not care about intellectual property. The ISPs get paid higher fees from consumers wanting higher bandwidth to download illegally at faster rates. Rampant piracy translates to billions of dollars of profits. 95% of music on iPods is illegal. Apple knows that but their marketing is clear: fit tens of thousands of songs on your iPod (irrespective if its illegally downloaded or not).

The Internet is dominated by many corporations who really have no respect for intellectual capital. If ICANN wants to make a difference that matters in Intellectual Property, then perhaps they need to be involved with other more significant issues that affect the Internet. If they are responsible for implementing trademark mechanisms for TLDs, then why not actually make a difference where it counts and where copyright holders are suffering from piracy, which has cost many their jobs? The trademark issues that will arise from new TLDs are insignificant if compared with the harm inflicted by piracy to copyright holders. My point is that ICANN has done enough to appease the trademark community. They are offered the trademark mechanisms to solve cybersquatting, even though the potential harms are expected to be tiny in comparison (if any). Copyright holders do not enjoy such benefit because of the very nature of the Web and its chaotic openness. I thought Rod Beckstrom understood this concept. I did after-all I read his book. Action is needed now, not just mere words.

With the Internet moving away from the Web, the repercussions to the domain industry will be felt. Domain name parking will become obsolete and the astronomical prices that premium, one-word .COM domains sell for will fall significantly and industry will experience less million-dollar domain name sales. There is no better time to sell your domain portfolio than right now unless you are developing it or unless you believe that apps and mobile devices with proprietary, closed ecosystems is not a reality.

ICANN needs to finally get the new TLD program launched without any further delays. The delays are unwarranted given the very few issues that are left such as Vertical Integration, pricing on bulk same-translated strings and establishing a better and fairer point system for community applicants that will also prevent abuse.

Unless ICANN shares Chris Anderson's viewpoint that the Web is dead, ICANN has to finally acknowledge the financial harm and opportunity costs that all the delays have inflicted to all applicants that have been clinging to ICANN timing promises to launch their respective TLD. The Web depends on it since it is shrinking. Time to join forces with the new Internet economy and space. It is time to expand the Web and introduce new complementors to the Internet: new TLDs.

Written by Constantine Roussos, CEO & Founder of .Music & Music.us

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