Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step up enforcement against those that do not mark their blogs as adult content and those [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday’s list of domain names was huge and today’s is as well. Again, these are often early discoveries by large corporations and domain names they have purchased, are moving around for one reason or another and more. Do you like these articles? Please consider helping DotWeekly staying alive, as the site makes very little to [...] Continue reading →

Five years ago Domain Incite published its first story, with the introductory line “Let’s start at the beginning, shall we?” I went on to describe how I’d registered the name domainincite.com and thrown up a live, resolving web site in less than one hour. But that wasn’t quite the beginning. What I neglected to mention [...] Continue reading →

Company adds to its stack of pending patents. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published a handful of patent applications filed by GoDaddy. Methods and Systems for Recommending Packages of Domain Names for Registration (application 14/500711) is a continuation of patents I wrote about earlier this month. It essentially describes a way to [...] Continue reading →

During NamesCon 2015, an FBI Cyber Agent joined us on the panel discussing Security and Domain Theft Prevention. It was an interesting and educating discussion for all of us involved in the documentation and reversal of domain theft. The FBI operates a team of Cyber Agents that tackle matters of computer threats, Internet attacks, digital [...] Continue reading →

During my daily digging it strongly is pointing to the domain name Kit.com as selling! Here are my findings: Kit.com whois ownership changed from KIT Electronics Limited and registered at GoDaddy to transferring to SafeNames LTD. and going into privacy. Mike Gleissner has owned Kit.com since 8/31/2009. In 2013 when the domain was owned by [...] Continue reading →

The VP of domain product marketing for MarkMonitor, a company that assists companies with brand protection, raised an interesting subject: predatory pricing by the gTLD registries. Elisa Cooper is urging brand owners to appeal to ICANN, so that the hefty bill paid during Sunrise registrations is lowered substantially. According to the current modus operandi, domain [...] Continue reading →