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Number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday. While most malware-generated traffic passing through most channels used for communicating with botnets (such as TCP, IRC, [...] Continue reading
.BENGALURU is the new gTLD project for the city of Bruhat Bangaluru (Bangalore).Did you check Registries.tel recently? Looking forward to knowing and sharing more about new generic Top-Level Domains, please visit my LinkedIn group: "new generic Top-Level Domains" and its 600 members. [...] Continue reading
The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. It took two months to break the ice, but the year's first reported 7-figure domain sale is finally in the books with Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales.com doing the honors.That venue and several others had big weeks as business was brisk across the board. [...] Continue reading
During the Mobile World Congress 2012, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt, today warned against United Nations' treaty aimed at bringing more Internet regulation. "That would be a disaster… To some, the openness and interoperability is one of the greatest achievements of mankind in our lifetime. Do not give that up easily. You will regret it. [...] Continue reading
Thousands of domain names are registered daily, but today – February 29 – is a special day that occurs every four years. Leap year registrations on February 29th are thus problematic, as they expire one day prior to their anniversary - on February 28th of the following year. In other words, domainers end up paying [...] Continue reading
Hoosaid is a wonderful tool that you can use to locate tweeters related to a specific topic or keyword. The tool examines the past record of Twitter users to learn what they really talk about, rather than what they do occasionally. The site describes their service as “the Pagerank for People”. For domainers, Hoosaid would [...] Continue reading
Grandparents.com, Inc., has become a public company. The domain was acquired by the owners in 2010. According to a Press Release today, “the company formerly known as NorWesTech, Inc. (OTCBB: NWTH), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), announced today that it completed a reverse acquisition transaction with Grandparents.com, LLC (“GP”) in which GP contributed substantially all [...] Continue reading