The Anti-Phishing Working Group says the number of phishing domains nearly tripled from March to April “as cybercriminals returned to a late-2006 tactic designed to do an end run around browser-based antiphishing filters. In one month, the number of unique sites soared 166%, from 20,871 in March to 55,643 in April” reports Computer World. (Read more…)
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With each country having its own trade mark system, the effect is the trademark system is territorial. So a brand name may be owned by one person in the United Kingdom and by another, totally unrelated, person in the United States. This article notes as the DNS puts “most of its emphasis on the .com title as the international domain, [this] does not really jive well with the trade mark system because of the latter’s fundamental definition of ‘ownership’.” (Read more…)
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The Republic of Cameroon is making money from its ccTLD – .cm. With internet users mistyping “.com”, sometimes getting “.cm”, The Times reports “thousands of internet users searching for .com sites are directed Cameroonian web addresses which do not exist.” (Read more…)
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On May 22nd, ICANN announced today an exchange of letters with the country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .br — Comite Gestor da Internet no Brasil (CGI.br) administered through NIC.br (Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do .br, in Portuguese). (Read more…)
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This morning we conducted a short interview with Jay Westerdal. According to him, registration is now OPEN for the August 13th-15th Domain Conference in Beautiful Seattle Washington. We are excited to reveal some new technology this year which will make networking so much easier! We are the first Domain Conference to use this wireless networking technology. (Read more…)
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VeriSign has replaced CEO Stratton Sclavos with a member of its board of directors, William Roper Jr. Roper is a former executive vice president and chief financial officer at Science Applications International, and will take over as VeriSign’s president and CEO. (Read more…)
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There is wide coverage of GoDaddy.com agreeing to take over and manage more than 850,000 domain names belonging to customers of RegisterFly according to announcements from ICANN and GoDaddy.com. (Read more…)
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The Register asks if “the RegisterFly mess be wrapping up at last?” Noting a posting on the ICANN Blog they say this “appears to be the case”. (Read more…)
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.SE (the Internet Infrastructure Foundation), responsible for the Internet country code top-level domain .se) has announced via a news release it is now possible to register domain names in all official minority languages, as stated by Swedish law. In addition to the minority languages Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami, Romani and Yiddish, it will be possible to use the special characters of all the other Nordic countries, i.e. Danish, Norwegian, Faroe and Icelandic, in .se domains. The sunrise period for the new IDN (Internationalised Domain Names) starts July 4, 2007. (Read more…)
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The South African Minister of Communications declared .za DNA shall assume responsibility of the .za domain name as of 18 May, 2007. The government gazette announcement in a pdf document is available here.
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