Sedo’s September Great Domains Auction Results
Sedo’s latest Great Domains auction ended yesterday. 907.com was the highest selling domain name at 54,000 EUR.
Even though the auction featured many valuable domain names, only eight domain names met their reserve and sold.
Here are the results :
907.com 54,000 EUR
Linux.info $5,149
Billiger.net 4,999 EUR
Parfums.de 8,000 EUR
TP.de 5,550 EUR
Albachat.com $2,049
Cosmetic.de 1,500 EUR
OPH.de 498 EUR
Apple Most Frequent Phishing Target in the World: APWG Report
Apple’s brand and associated marques, such as iTunes and iPad, eclipsed perennial phishing target favourite PayPal with the computing device manufacturer enduring 21,951 of the 123,741 phishing reports sampled
PayPal was the second most phished brand, targeted in 17,811 attacks, or 14.4 percent of the half’s sample. The Chinese marketplace Taobao was third with 16,418 attacks, or 13.2 percent of the sampled attacks.
“As the world’s most valuable brand with a massive on-line user base, Apple has always been a phishing target, and with phishers concentrating more and more on online account takeover, consumers’ Apple ID’s are a tempting target,” said Rod Rasmussen, President and CTO of IID and the survey’s co-author.
“As Apple provides more services and devices tied to one’s Apple ID, including the just announced Apple Pay, it is no surprise that phishers are increasing their efforts to fool consumers into divulging their credentials, regardless of additional security measures Apple puts in place to protect their customers,” Rasmussen said.
The report found cybercrime gangs are aggressively pursuing brand diversity in their online fraud schemes, spoofing and otherwise leveraging the identities of some 756 institutions, the highest number the analysts had yet encountered
“If a site takes in personal data like passwords or credit card information, then phishers may want to exploit it,” said Greg Aaron, President of Illumintel and the survey’s other co-author. “We’re seeing an unprecedented breadth of targets — cloud storage sites, utility companies, business service providers, and real estate brokerages.”
Of the 87,901 domains used for phishing, the report identified some 22,679 domains, a quarter of the total sample, that the authors believe were registered maliciously by phishers.
Phishing occurred in 227 TLDs, but 90 percent of the malicious domain registrations (20,565 ) were in just five TLDs : .COM, .TK (Tokelau, which gives away its domains for free), .PW (Palau), .CF (Central African Republic) and .NET . A small number of phishing attacks were seen in the new gTLDs that began launching in early 2014. But when looking at phishing domains per 10,000 domains, .cf came out top with 320.8 followed by .ml (Mali) with 118.9 and .pw with 122.0.
The .CF, .GA, and .ML ccTLD registries were repurposed in 2013 to offer free domains names. They are operated by Freenom, which also operates the free .TK registry.
The .PW registry was plagued by Chinese phishers, who registered at least 1,889 domains to phish Taobao.com and other Chinese targets. Thailand’s .TH continues to rank highly, as it has for many years, suffering from compromised government and university Web servers.
Only about 1.7 percent of all domain names that were used for phishing contained a brand name or variation thereof.
The number is primarily due to registrations by Chinese-based phishers targeting Chinese brands who prefer cheap (and free) domain name registrations in certain TLDs. The other 65,222 domains were almost all hacked or compromised on vulnerable Web hosting.
The complete report is available to download from:
docs.apwg.org/reports/APWG_Global_Phishing_Report_1H_2014.pdf
ccTLDs Growth Outstrips Legacy gTLDs: CENTR Report
The growth rate for the 248 ccTLDs around the world has been higher than that for the 21 legacy gTLDs in the three months to the end of August according to the latest CENTR DomainWire report.
The number of domains registered across all ccTLDs was 129,388,192, an increase of 1.7 percent over the three months, not including internationalised domain ccTLDs, which themselves grew by the even higher rate of 2.9 percent to 1,244,863.
Meanwhile the 21 legacy gTLDs saw growth of 0.3 percent to 148,807,739. Meanwhile, as would be expected, registrations across all the new gTLDs grew significantly across the three months – growing a total of 139.8 percent to 2,070,244.
In total, according to the ZookNIC statistics used by CENTR, there was a total of 282,526,140 domains registered across all TLDs, an increase of 1.3 percent in three months.
Among the ccTLDs, growth was highest with the largest, .tk (Tokelau) which saw registrations of its free domains grow 8.6 percent to 26.0 million. No other ccTLD saw growth of over two percent, but five saw registrations of 1.0 percent or more. They were .cn (China) with growth of 1.8 percent to 10.8 million registrations, followed by .eu (European Union – 1.5% – 3.8m), .ch (Switzerland – 1.2% – 1.9m), .br (Brazil – 1.2% – 3.5m) and .au (Australia – 1.0% – 2.9m).
The 20 largest ccTLDs accounted for around 82 percent of all ccTLD domains registered globally and 38 percent of all domains.
Within Europe there were almost 66.5 million ccTLD domains registered at the end of August, a growth rate of 0.3 percent for the quarter and 2.8 percent for the year.
The report also notes the countries with the highest domain name penetration. Liechtenstein tops this list with 176 ccTLD domains registered per 100 people, followed by Montenegro with 117, boosted by their .me ccTLD being promoted as a gTLD. The Netherlands and Switzerland followed with 33 and 24 respectively, then Denmark (23), Germany (19) and the United Kingdom (17).
The report also looked at registrar security and authentication. CENTR asked over 100 registrars, web hosting companies, ISPs and other IT related organisations for their thoughts on some specific areas of security management. The aim of the survey was to gather views on how to increase the security level access to their web portals as well as to evaluate the need for a greater emphasis on two-factor authentication and other security features.
The survey found that 90 percent of respondents are not aware of any situation where leaked credentials have led to an attacker modifying DNS or related data. This left 10% who have experienced this type of incident. Almost 70 percent of all respondents stated an attack of this kind would be a major impact on either the entire or part of the organisation.
To download the CENTR report in full, go to:
https://centr.org/news/09-25-2014/domainwire-sep14-global-tld-report
Sedo’s Cyrillic .Online and .Site Premium Auction is Underway
Sedo is hosting these days the Cyrillic .Online and .Site premium auction. The auction started today and will end on October 3,2014.
The auction features 44 cyrillic .Online and .Site premium domain names.
Here is the inventory :
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Escrow.com Acquires Agreed.com
Escrow.com announced recently the acquisition of Agreed.com. The terms of the transaction were not yet disclosed.
Agreed.com was a Thought Convergence, Inc property.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1998.
“By integrating the technologies of our companies, we will be able to offer a more comprehensive set of options to the domain community.As the worldwide leader in providing escrow services for “the real estate of the Internet”, it is important that we react to the needs and expectations of our customers as the global marketplace changes. Agreed.com has developed unique and proprietary technology that our clients will now be able to enjoy, while bringing together the only government-licensed and audited, insured, and bonded personal property Internet escrow companies in the world,” stated Escrow.com President and Managing Director, Brandon Abbey.
“We’ve spent the past several years building a powerful and intuitive online escrow platform for the domain community. Escrow.com will now be able to scale more rapidly and successfully deliver additional services to the global market. I look forward to working with Brandon and his team throughout the transition and for years to come,” said Ammar Kubba, CEO of Agreed.com.“The rapidly evolving domain industry needs a trusted third party that is neutral, transparent, and independent, which is why joining Escrow.com was the obvious choice for us. They’ve been in this business for 15 years, and they’ve clearly withstood the test of time and trust. Escrow.com has always been a pillar of the domain industry, and they’re the only ones that I would trust with our future business and that of our customers,” he added.
