NameJet Reports $557,335 in Domain Name Sales in December 2014

Namejet has just sent out its December 2014 sales report.Sales add up to a total of $557,335 in December,2014.Only domain name sales over $2,000 were reported.

Here are the sales :

problem.com     $35,200.00
bfn.com     $25,000.00
vvvv.com     $22,100.00
reported.com     $19,999.00
lefan.com     $19,101.00
enetwork.com     $15,500.00
casinoforum.com     $15,300.00
landauctions.com     $15,300.00
appearance.com     $15,000.00
childhealth.com     $14,999.00
kickbox.com     $11,999.00
hvy.com     $11,100.00
11211.com     $10,003.00
zho.com     $10,000.00
badhabits.com     $9,999.00
zuv.com     $9,501.00
zuh.com     $9,455.00
uxy.com     $8,991.00
yxu.com     $8,711.00
eij.com     $8,679.00
5924.com     $8,000.00
qvw.com     $7,900.00
borrowers.com     $7,600.00
xoq.com     $6,947.00
integratedmarketing.com     $6,514.00
homesell.com     $6,200.00
4374.com     $5,505.00
ballinger.com     $5,101.00
british.org     $5,053.00
litterbox.com     $4,999.00
stateinsurance.com     $4,600.00
realcasino.com     $4,500.00
12328.com     $4,068.00
virtualcoach.com     $4,001.00
urgencia.com     $3,999.00
certus.com     $3,855.00
marijuanapills.com     $3,745.00
skyriver.com     $3,602.00
extrasmall.com     $3,600.00
icopy.com     $3,600.00
medicalexam.com     $3,550.00
officials.com     $3,500.00
eoil.com     $3,422.00
photographs.net     $3,400.00
quitdrugs.com     $3,350.00
dorf.com     $3,221.00
17313.com     $3,212.00
gorillasports.com     $3,200.00
payola.com     $3,190.00
hepatitis.net     $3,180.00
ahfc.com     $3,101.00
mathquestions.com     $3,050.00
chuanshen.com     $3,048.00
xmasgift.com     $3,011.00
triskell.com     $3,008.00
surfacemount.com     $3,000.00
vpsserver.com     $2,987.00
casinoportal.com     $2,912.00
accesstech.com     $2,833.00
eroticlingerie.com     $2,700.00
firstprice.com     $2,700.00
mailexpress.com     $2,700.00
bodyofchrist.com     $2,602.00
detoxpill.com     $2,600.00
clearbank.com     $2,600.00
irsc.com     $2,600.00
2b2.com     $2,569.00
meime.com     $2,505.00
accompagnatricimilano.com     $2,500.00
snta.com     $2,500.00
douren.com     $2,413.00
kunma.com     $2,410.00
abcmart.com     $2,410.00
aircommerce.com     $2,410.00
obsequio.com     $2,400.00
nasg.com     $2,400.00
colorfinder.com     $2,369.00
tidc.com     $2,205.00
cyberoffice.com     $2,201.00
pymt.com     $2,200.00
notebooks.org     $2,200.00
wineinstitute.com     $2,199.00
foodgroups.com     $2,192.00
creditsaver.com     $2,169.00
charterair.com     $2,150.00
widescope.com     $2,120.00
cswl.com     $2,115.00
beyondconsulting.com     $2,111.00
aventures.com     $2,108.00
energyfunds.com     $2,101.00
breakfasttacos.com     $2,100.00
overbet.com     $2,100.00
jewerlydirect.com     $2,078.00
securityvideo.com     $2,055.00
pasofino.com     $2,022.00
s40.com     $2,010.00
findaschool.com     $2,010.00
livestocks.com     $2,000.00
setc.com     $2,000.00
ncer.com     $2,000.00
kapy.com     $2,000.00
lechocolat.com     $2,000.00

ICANN : GNSO Policy & Implementation Working Group Publishes Initial Recommendations Report for Public Comment

Mainly as a result of discussions stemming from implementation related issues of the new generic Top-Level Doman (gTLD) program, there has been an increased focus on which topics call for policy and which call for implementation work, including which processes should be used, at what time and how issues which are the subject of diverging opinions during the implementation process should be acted upon.

Following several discussions, including the publication of a staff discussion paper and a community session during the ICANN meeting in Beijing in April 2013, the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council decided in July 2013 to form a Working Group (WG) which was tasked to provide the GNSO Council with a set of recommendations on a number of questions that specifically relate to policy and implementation in a GNSO context.

The WG has now published its Initial Recommendations Report for community input which can be provided either through input received via this public comment forum or via the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PI-InitialReport

Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/policy-implementation-2015-01-19-en

This announcement was sourced from :

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-01-19-en

DNSBelgium : Which 2-Character Domain Names Can Be Registered ?

DNSBelgium, the company behind .BE extension, decided to let everyone know why is it that you sometimes can register a two-character domain name and antohe time you can’t.

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“A domain name that consists of only two characters: why is it that you sometimes can register them and another time you can’t? Who’s the one to decide? And what about extensions: why not choose a short .vl extension instead of the longer .vlaanderen?

In the first place we have to make a distinction between a ccTLD (country code top level domain) such as .be, .nl and .fr, and a gTLD (generic top level domain) such as .vlaanderen and .brussels, but also .com, .bike etc.

With ccTLDs it is the registry that decides on the policies and thus on the domain names that are made available for registration (except a few technical commitments that generally apply). With .be for instance it is perfectly possible to register two-character domain names, even two-letter domain names such as be.be. The registry in charge of .fr, on the other hand, didn’t allow them until recently; it is now gradually releasing all one and two-character domain names.

For the gTLDs, the situation is completely different. A great deal of the policies is determined by ICANN. At the end of 2014, ICANN decided to authorize the gTLDs registries to release two-character domain names as far as they contain:

    2 digits e.g. 11
    1 digit and 1 letter e.g. 1a
    1 letter and 1 digit e.g. a1

DNS Belgium decided to release these combinations as of the start of general availability, which is 20 January 2015 (10:00 CET). Combinations such as 56.brussels or k8.vlaanderen will then be made available.

It remains more difficult to register two-letter domain names such as aa.vlaanderen. This kind of domain name will continue to need the explicit consent from ICANN. If the two letters happen to constitute a country code, you will even need authorization of the authorities of the country in question as well as of the registry who manages the country code in question. Whoever wants to register nl.vlaanderen will thus need authorization of both the Dutch authorities and SIDN (manager of the .nl domain names).

Extensions

The reason why we haven’t chosen the short .vl extension instead of .vlaanderen, is to be found as well in the policies determined by ICANN. Only two-letter codes that appear in the ISO2166-1 list are eligible to become a ccTLD. .vl clearly doesn’t appear in that list, which would only be possible if Flanders becomes an independent region.

With a gTLD extension, two-letter codes were excluded from the beginning, so we only had the choice between .vla and .vlaanderen or an English variant. Since .vlaanderen remains the most recognisable, the Flemish authorities opted for the latter.”

Longitudinal Typosquatting Study Finds Most Trademark Owners Do Little To Protect Their Domains

Trademark owners do little to protect their brands from typosquatters is one of the key findings of the first content-based, longitudinal studies of typosquatting undertaken by a Belgian and American university team.

In the study, data about the typosquatting domains of the 500 most popular websites was collected every day for seven months. The team looked at whether previously discovered typosquatting trends still hold today, and looked for new results and insights in the typosquatting landscape.

The research team at the Belgian University of Leuven and Stony Brook University in the US trawled through 900 GB of data from 3,389,137 web pages and 424,278 distinct WHOIS records gathered over a period of seven months and also found that even though 95 percent of the popular domains investigated are actively targeted by typosquatters, only a few trademark owners protect themselves against this practice by proactively registering their own typosquatting domains.

The researchers also found typosquatting domains change hands from typosquatters to legitimate owners and vice versa, and that typosquatters vary their monetisation strategy by hosting different types of pages over time. Typosquatters are also on the look-out for expiring registrations of popular domain names. The researchers found that 50 percent of all typosquatting domains can be traced back to just four typosquatting page hosters and that certain TLDs are much more prone to typosquatting than others.

When looking at the 500 most popular websites, they found that 477 of the domains for these sites had at least one malicious typosquatting domain. Additionally, only 156 of the authoritative domains in the list have defensive domain registrations, meaning that 344 domains (representing 68.8% of the 500 most popular websites) have no defensive registrations whatsoever.

Of the top three of the top 500 with the most defensive registrations, huffingtonpost.com had the most with 57 defensive domains, americanexpress.com with 42 domains and bloomberg.com with 39 domains. The top three of authoritative domains with the most malicious typosquatting domains were adultfriendfinder.com with 132 typosquatting domains, constantcontact.com with 103 typosquatting domains and odnoklassniki.ru with 97 such domains. Alarmingly, out of the three banks in our top 500 list (bankofamerica.com, hdfcbank.com and icicibank.com), only bankofamerica.com has defensive registrations.

The researchers also found, contrary to earlier research, that the longer the domain the greater likelihood of typosquatting. With a longer domain name, the number of possible typosquatting domains following the character substitution model rises very quickly. This change has come about in the last six years.

To download the results of the study in full, go to:
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/471369/3/typos-final.pdf

DotTBA and TLDWatch Give Their View On The New gTLD Programme, And The Future

Plenty are wondering what the future is for the new gTLDs. Which ones will be a success, which will fail, and which will do barely be enough to keep afloat.

For one point of view, the good folk at DotTBA and TLDWatch joined for an in-depth presentation on gTLD statistics and business implications at the NamesCon conference last week.

The presentation includes: