Archive : Domain Name News

Share Typosquatters have covered almost 80% of the typos of big traffic websites like Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Apple What is Typosquatting ? Typosquatting is the practice of registering a domain name that’s slightly different from that of a heavily trafficked site in the hope of catching some accidental traffic Sophos looked at typosquatting targeting its own website and those [...]

Share Sex.com became the world’s most expensive domain name when it sold for record price of $13 million Last year, And in the year 2011 , it was social.com which was sold for $2.6 million Below is the list of top domain names sales made in year 2011 Sr Domain name Sold For 15 DataCenter.com $352,500 14 33.com sold $358,000 13 Look.com $400,000 12 AutoInsurance.org $440,000 11 Meet.me $450,000 8 Gay.xxx $500,000 8 GamesForGirls.com $500,000 8 Puzzle.com $500,000 7 11.com $525,0000 6 Answer.com $550,000 4 RunningShoes.com $700,000 4 VU.com $700,000 3 Aktien.de [...]

Share The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as www.KUgirls.xxx and www.KUnurses.xxx. But not because it’s planning a Hot Babes or X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of Kansas. Instead, the university and countless other schools and businesses are rushing to prevent their good names from falling into the hands of the pornography industry. Over the past two months, they have [...]

Share The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) finally approved a new top-level domain (TLD) for domain names ending in .xxx. Hereafter URLs ending in .xxx will contain sexually oriented adult entertainment content that is verified to be neither fraudulent nor illegal. We also believe sales of .xxx domains should begin soon in Q2 2011. Here I have mentioned the steps to reserve [...]

Share Domain tasting refers to the practice of registering up several domain names to test whether they receive type-in traffic and then dropping the domains that do not. This is possible because most domain registrars offer a 5 days refunding period. Domain tasting is the practice of a domain name registrant using the five-day “grace period” (the Add Grace Period or AGP) at the beginning [...]

Share People wonder why in Italy, the main backorder services do not use an auction system to let customers’ offers grow up. Currently offers are not known in advance and normally a user does not know how much other users have focused on a specific recovery. It’s not difficult to understand how this happens at the expense of the backorder service. No auctions means no stimulation of the [...]

Share ICANN formed in the year 1998 by the US federal government as not for profit organization, is given the role of managing internet’s functionality and TLD. The organization at present has an annual budget of six to eight million dollars (USD). Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN as it is called, is an organization functioning under the US federal government legislations. [...]