Afilias Selected for CIO 100 Awards
Afilias, the company behind .info, .mobi and .pro extensions, announced recently that it has been named as a recipient of the 2014 CIO 100 awards.
You can read the announcement after the jump :
“Global registry services provider Afilias today announced that it has been named as a recipient of the 2014 CIO 100 award. Now in its 27th year, the CIO 100 award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest levels of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT).
Afilias received the award for its development of a new generation of “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) applications, designed to transform the service delivery model of the domain name registry industry by integrating scalability, resiliency, convenience and economy into its global domain name registry system delivery platform.
Afilias’ Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Ram Mohan, set the strategy and architected the deployment of the system with the objectives of reducing time to launch for a new domain, increasing resiliency in the face of cyber-attacks and reducing the cost of implementation for the company and its clients.
“Ram Mohan’s work has resulted in the creation of a globally available registry system that scales to support thousands of new top level domains while increasing flexibility, functionality and security,” said Hal Lubsen, President and CEO of Afilias. “This is especially important for global brands who are preparing for Round 2 of ICANN’s New gTLD program. Brands can now access an efficient, ICANN-compliant, state-of-the-art registry platform — and an award-winning one — that ensures the availability and security of their own top-level ‘dot Brand’ domain.”
Afilias CTO Ram Mohan added, “A particular point of interest in the system is the introduction of the ‘common wallet,’ which allows domain name resellers to log into the Afilias system and use a common wallet to buy domain names from a variety of providers hosted on Afilias’ platform. That’s an innovation in the domain industry and one that Afilias is proud to introduce.”
Afilias executives, along with other CIO 100 award winners, will be recognized at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony, to be held on August 19, 2014.”
SnapNames Premium Partner Auction Ends in Three Days! Only Five Bids So Far
There are three days left in SnapNames’ Premium Partner auction, which ends June 12, at 3:15 PM ET.The auction features 97 domain names, at different price ranges.
Only five of the 97 domain names received bids so far :
Bin.net Current Bid $5,001
JuicingMachines.com Current Bid $2,500
Oceanside.org Current Bid $802
ZXAuto.com Current Bid $675
EZPlay.com Current Bid $500
Other interesting domain names included in the auction are :
Diplomacy.com
InsuranceRates.net
Moisturizers.com
Calgary.org
Avatares.com
BostonShows.com
SurviveCancer.com
AntiAgingFormula.com
You can see the entire inventory and place your bids here .
New gTLD Registrations Pass One Million Mark In Dodgy Circumstances
The number of new gTLDs Domains Under Management passed the one million milestone on 6 June, but the boost it received from a .xyz “promotion” run by Network Solutions has led to accusations the registrar has artificially inflated the number of registrations.
As of 9 June, there were 1,023,297 DUM across the 300 new gTLDs with at least one domain name shared out among 136 registrars and 39 registries.
With the Network Solutions promotion, .xyz has leapt into the lead with 88,747 registrations, almost 20,000 ahead of .club with 68,781 and then .guru with 61,958. Following is .berlin with 49,195. These are the only new gTLDs with more than 40,000 registrations.
There are another four new gTLDs with registrations over 30,000, three more with 20,000+ and six more with 10,000+. In total there are 55 new gTLDs with more than 1,000 registrations.
But it the method Network Solutions has adopted to boost .xyz registrations has attracted controversy with accusations of “clear-cut cases of cybersquatting” by Domain Incite.
Network Solutions has been giving away tens of thousands of .xyz domain names to the registrants of the matching .com domain.
Domain Incite found many instances of domains being registered that included trademarks in the domains such as my-twitter.xyz, facebook-liker.xyz, googledia.xyz, arolexwatches.xyz, disneytime.xyz, iphonethank.xyz, sellstuffonamazon.xyz and pepsicontest.xyz.
“They’re all registered via NetSol’s Whois privacy service, which lists the registrant’s ‘real’ name in the Whois record, but substitutes mailing address, email and phone number with NetSol-operated proxies.”
“The ‘registrants’ did not have to explicitly accept the offer,” Domain Incite reported. “Instead, NetSol gave them the option to ‘opt-out’ of having the name registered on their behalf and placed into their accounts.”
For more detail on the .xyz controversy, see the Domain Incite report here.
Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domain Names for $175,000
Famous Four has recently sold 15 .webcam domain name to a single buyer for $175,000. All the domain names are adult oriented terms ,includgin Asian.webcam, Milf.webcam and Tube.Webcam.
The deal was brokered by Hunting Moon.
“We are delighted to conclude this deal so rapidly.Agreeing a six figure cash deal so early in a registry’s life is a testament to the strength of the .WEBCAM suffix, the capability of the staff at Famous Four Media and the willingness of its broker network to collaborate,” said Andy Churley, Chief Marketing Officer at Famous Four Media.
“The .WEBCAM registry has a lot of appeal for premium name brokers like HuntingMoon.It has been HuntingMoon’s privilege to coordinate this historic, biggest ever reported new TLD sale. The fact that we collaborated with several brokers, such as Media Options S.A and Domain Broker UK, to achieve this landmark sale, in a newly launched new gTLD registry, is a great indicator for the success of .WEBCAM.” added Evan Horowitz, CEO and Founder of HuntingMoon
Famous Four is launching today its first three new gTLDs : .Trade, .Webcam and .Bid .
Famous Four Sells 15 .WEBCAM Domain Names for $175,000
Famous Four has recently sold 15 .webcam domain name to a single buyer for $175,000. All the domain names are adult oriented terms ,includgin Asian.webcam, Milf.webcam and Tube.Webcam.
The deal was brokered by Hunting Moon.
“We are delighted to conclude this deal so rapidly.Agreeing a six figure cash deal so early in a registry’s life is a testament to the strength of the .WEBCAM suffix, the capability of the staff at Famous Four Media and the willingness of its broker network to collaborate,” said Andy Churley, Chief Marketing Officer at Famous Four Media.
“The .WEBCAM registry has a lot of appeal for premium name brokers like HuntingMoon.It has been HuntingMoon’s privilege to coordinate this historic, biggest ever reported new TLD sale. The fact that we collaborated with several brokers, such as Media Options S.A and Domain Broker UK, to achieve this landmark sale, in a newly launched new gTLD registry, is a great indicator for the success of .WEBCAM.” added Evan Horowitz, CEO and Founder of HuntingMoon
Famous Four is launching today its first three new gTLDs : .Trade, .Webcam and .Bid .
