New domain name practice criticized
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A company that sells Internet domain names is facing criticisms for holding some in reserve as a consumer-protection measure, a move that also prevents interested parties from shopping around for better prices.
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Some customers are concerned that domain registrar and hosting firm can't handle early move to Daylight Saving Time.
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Google Registering Mashup Search Domains Gary Price of ResourceShelf has noticed that Google has its eye on some new domain names, this time focusing on Mashup Search. Although Google does not own the domain SearchMashup.com, they are working on cornering the domain market for that term - including misspellings. So, here&#8217;s a list of domains registered by [...]
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Mission critical app in critical condition A domain name snafu at Clearswift, a company that filters email and web pages for objectionable content, wreaked havoc on some of its business customers when admins awoke to find their organizations were unable to send or receive email.â¦
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NEW YORK -- The Internet's key oversight agency is investigating suspicions that insider information is being used to snatch desired domain names before an individual or business can register them.
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New guidelines to bring order to the global Internet domain name market and enhance the flow of electronic commerce came into effect on Friday.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a request by the operator of the .travel top-level domain name to redirect all mis-typed and non-existent Web addresses to a search service, much like VeriSign's controversial "Site Finder."
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Network Solutions says it's trying to protect against people using inside information to scoop up desirable domain names before someone else can register it.
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Internet users may soon see two new domain name suffixes in their browser window: &quot;.post&quot; to identify the postal community and &quot;.
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(InfoWorld) - Cheap or free registration of new domain names drives the growth in Web sites used for spamming or hosting malicious software, according to research from McAfee. The study, released Monday, highlights continuing problems concerning how Web sites are registered and the ease with which bad actors can change Web sites to continue online scams. McAfee analyzed 8.1 million of the world's most trafficked Web sites registered on 265 top-level domains (TLDs), such as ".com" and ".biz" along with country-specific ones, such as ".jp" for Japan. McAfee offers a free tool, SiteAdvisor, that determines if Web sites send spam, host bad programs or have excessive pop-ups. McAfee, which bought SiteAdvisor in April 2006, also offers a pay version with more advanced features. Small islands with their own TLDs remain troublesome. For example, some 18.5 percent of Web sites registered under the ".st" TLD are considered "risky" for either spam or other malicious activity, McAfee said. The TLD belongs to Sao Tome and Principe, a country of two volcanic islands west of Gabon. Tokelau (.tk), a territory of New Zealand in the south Pacific, and Niue (.nu), also in the south Pacific east of Tonga, give out domains for free. That's good for scammers, who often need to register new domains as older ones are blocked by security software. Niue also allows anonymous registration of Web sites. Nine years ago the country declared "no tolerance" policy against spammers, but McAfee said it wasn't a deterrent. The safest TLDs belong to countries with stronger registration rules. Japan, Ireland, Sweden and Finland require a local postal address, while businesses in Norway have to register with the government to get a ".no" domain. Consequently, McAfee found the lowest percentage of bad Web sites in those domains. Australia and Canada, McAfee said, require a local contact for registration, which often deters spammer since registrations take more time. The ".info" domain ranked first among generic TLDs for its percentage of risky sites, at 7.5 percent, McAfee said. The domain also hosts many Web sites that send "spammy" e-mail, the vendor said. SiteAdvisor submits an e-mail address to Web sites and counts how many e-mails are received. Users have a 73.2 percent chance of receiving a spam e-mail by giving their address to a random ".info" site, McAfee said. The ".com" domain -- created in the 1980s -- came in second for risk, with 5.5 percent of its Web sites considered questionable, McAfee said. Â
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It has been quiet sometime since we heard news related to domain name issues. Microsoft recently had some with a kid named Mike Rowe who opened up a site MikeRoweSoft.
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Company: "It's not supposed to be possible to transfer a domain name from one registrar to another without notifying both the current registrar and the current domain owner, and yet it happened anyway."
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Hoping to bring some order to an increasingly unmanageable web, the Department of Commerce turns over the business of running the domain-name system to a new, private nonprofit.
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Over the past few years, the Internet has seen new domain names such as '.eu' for Europe and '.travel' for the travel industry.Comment
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Two new Internet domain names &#151; ".post" and ".travel" &#151; could appear online as early as next year as the Internet's key oversight board announced preliminary approval on Wednesday.
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A growing practice known as domain name "tasting," a form of cyber squatting, ties up millions of domain names at a time, keeping them out of the reach of legit buyers. By the Associated Press.
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Google says it will work to make it less lucrative to tie up millions of Internet addresses using a loophole in a practice known as domain-name tasting. It plans to keep those domain names from legitimate individuals and businesses.