New .CLUB gTLD Launched 7 May
[news release]While Lego.club, Ferarri.club, NewYorkYankees.club and many more brands have had a jump start on buying their new .CLUB web addresses, now anyone can buy and start their own .CLUB as “yourname.club” web addresses become available for immediate registration today, as announced by .CLUB Domains, LLC, the company formed to own and operate the new “.CLUB” domain extension.
Starting today (7 May), anyone can visit one of over 70 registrars around the globe, including, GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Register.com, Name.com, 1and1, United Domains and many more to register their very own .CLUB Web address to market a club, membership organization, affinity and loyalty program, fan club, social group or just to create a website to bring together people sharing a common interest or passion.
The new “.CLUB” generic top-level domain name (gTLD) is already one of the most successful new gTLDs to come to market, selling nearly $500,000 in premium names and registering new web addresses from a broad range of vertical industries across the globe, including high-profile sports teams, auto manufacturers, major consumer and luxury brands, private clubs and more. Now anyone can get a great .CLUB domain name on a first come, first served basis.
“The response for .CLUB web address has been incredible thus far, so we’re excited that the flood gates are now open and anyone can register and use their very own .CLUB website,” said Colin Campbell, CEO of .CLUB. “Club has universal recognition and appeal all over the world, no matter what language or alphabet, so it’s the perfect domain to spark innovation and creativity around any community or passion.”
Shaving.club is one business that sees the value of a .CLUB name. Touted as the “Netflix of luxury shaving products,” Shaving.club has launched as a place where users can join and save up to 50% on the most popular razors, creams, brushes and more. “Having a .CLUB web address is an integral part of our business strategy as it instantly identifies us as a membership-focused organization, it’s easily remembered and very catchy from a marketing perspective,” said Lucas Webster, CEO and founder of Shaving.Club. “We’re proud to be among the first to have a .CLUB web address and be a pioneer in this new Internet landscape.”
Whether you are an individual or a business, a group of two or two million, there’s a perfect .CLUB domain name waiting for you at a very reasonable price – approximately $15 per year depending on the registrar. Visit your favorite registrar today or click here to find a complete list of .CLUB registrars.
About .Club Domains, LLC
Led by Internet entrepreneur Colin Campbell, whose prior successes include Tucows Interactive and Hostopia.com, .Club Domains, LLC was formed for the purpose of becoming the .CLUB gTLD registry. Fully understanding the inherent marketing value of a .CLUB domain for any membership organization, .CLUB is also building a comprehensive social platform for club management. .CLUB is a one-stop shop for clubs of all sizes to secure a great domain, grow club membership, improve member engagement and reduce management costs. By combining an easy to use web services platform with a top level domain based on a globally recognized term, .CLUB is “the easiest way to find, join or start a club.” More information and links to register .CLUB domains are available now at www.nic.club.
Architelos Announces Flat Rate NameSentry Pricing For New gTLDs
[news release] Architelos, Inc., the leading provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, announced a flat rate pricing for its NameSentry automated abuse detection and mitigation service targeted at new gTLDs. New gTLD operators will now be able to sign up for NameSentry Basic or NameSentry Enterprise service and pay a flat rate regardless of their domain name registration volumes. Architelos’ pioneering NameSentry service enables new gTLDs to not only comply with regulatory requirements for managing security threats such as domain name abuse, but also to build and maintain a safe and reputable namespace, with low commitment and low overhead.
“New gTLDs in the first year of launch want the certainty of knowing what their domain abuse mitigation and compliance costs would be, regardless of how much they grow”, said Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos. “Introducing an easy to understand flat rate pricing structure for new gTLDs helps them manage costs while enjoying the upside of their growth,” she added. To comply with regulatory requirements and to ensure a safe namespace, new gTLDs can either choose a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach by investing in data, systems and personnel, or they can choose to outsource. A DIY option requires upfront and long-term investment in data, personnel and development, as well as an established expertise in domain name abuse mitigation. While there may be other outsource options, Architelos is the only independent, 3rd party provider, and NameSentry the leading service already adopted and in use by existing and new gTLDs.
Architelos’ market leading NameSentry service aggregates data from multiple third party malware, spam and phishing providers, to get the most real-time and comprehensive view. The service then layers investigative tools to quickly pinpoint abusive sites and bad actors, and employs automated workflows to shut down threats. Under the new promotional plan for new gTLDs, monthly subscriptions prices range from $389 for the Basic service to $689 for the Enterprise version. More info is available on the Architelos website.
About Architelos, Inc.
Architelos, Inc. provides SaaS-based TLD managed services solutions, and strategic consulting for clients in the domain name (DNS) industry. NameSentry℠, a patent-pending abuse detection and mitigation service, is the second SaaS based service launched by the company, after Business Case Builder in 2011. Architelos is unique in having over 30 years of experience in building, launching, and managing multi-million name gTLDs. Clients include new gTLDs, as well as existing generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) and Country Code (ccTLD) registries. Architelos has locations in Leesburg (VA), Los Angeles, (CA), Toronto (Canada) and Dublin (Ireland), as well as data centers in Toronto and Los Angeles. For more info follow Architelos on Twitter and Facebook or LinkedIn.
Malicious Phishing Domains Grow Globally As Phishers Abuse Free TLDs: APWG Report
Incidences of phishing continued to explode in China in the second half of 2013, where Chinese phishers are victimising the country’s growing online population the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s Global Phishing Survey for Second Half of 2013 found.
The report found Chinese phishers were responsible for 85 percent of the domain names that were registered for phishing. But it wasn’t all bad news on the phishing front with the average uptimes of phishing attacks declining and close to historic lows, pointing to some success by anti-phishing responders.
Additionally, the companies (brands) targeted by phishing targets were diverse, with many new targets, indicating that e-criminals are looking for new opportunities in new places. The report also found mass hackings of vulnerable shared hosting providers led to 18 percent of all phishing attacks.
While the number of phishing URLs reported in the second half of 2013 numbered in the millions, the number of unique phishing attacks and domain names used to host them was much smaller. In the six month period there were at least 115,565 unique phishing attacks worldwide, nearly a 60 percent increase over the 72,758 seen the first half of 2013, but less than the 123,486 attacks we observed in the second half of 2012.
Most of the growth in attacks came, according to the APWG report, from phishing that used maliciously registered domains and subdomains. An attack is defined as a phishing site that targets a specific brand or entity. A single domain name can host several discrete phishing attacks against different banks, for example.
The phishing attacks occurred on 82,163 unique domain names. Again, this is up from the 53,685 domains used in the first half of 2013. The growth was much larger than the increase in the number of domain names in the world that grew from 261 million in April 2013 to 271.5 million in November 2013.
Of the 82,163 phishing domains, the report identified 22,831 domain names that the APWG believes were registered maliciously by phishers, the highest number in the seven years the APWG has been counting, 19,348 (85%) were registered to phish Chinese targets. This is significantly higher than the 12,175 found in the first half of 2013, and the 5,835 found in the second half of 2012.
And of these 22,831 registered maliciously, they were registered in 39 different TLDs at registrars in China, the US, and Europe and hosted in China, the US, and elsewhere. The registrations clustered around ten TLDs including the .TK, .CF, .GA, and .ML registries that are all run by Freenom, a Netherlands-based company that offers free domain name registrations. The company makes money through monetising the traffic to the expired domains.
As the report notes, Freenom has operated .TK under the free model for several years, and added .CF, .GA, and .ML to its programme during the second half of 2013. Freenom gives accredited interveners access to directly suspend domains in the .TK registry . (These partners include Facebook, Internet Identity, and the Anti-Phishing Alliance of China.) However, the mitigation of the malicious registrations lagged in Freenom’s new spaces — .CF, .GA. and .ML all had uptimes that were above the global average and median.
Brands were, as usual, a target, with 681 unique target institutions during the six month period, down slightly from the 720 found in the second half of 2012. Of the 681 targets that were phished in the second half of 2013, almost half of them — 324 to be precise — were not phished in the first half of 2013. This, the report notes, is an unusual amount of “churn” or turnover and shows phishers trying out new targets. They appear to be looking for companies that are newly popular, have vulnerable user bases, and/or are not ready to defend themselves against phishing.
Overall, the TLD with the most phishing attacks for the six months was .com with 46.4 percent (and 42.4% of global domain registrations) followed by .net (5.5%) and .tk (Tokelau – 4.5%). The .tk TLD is one of the free domains the report noted. Following was .br (Brazil – 3.2%), IP-based attacks (2.1%), .pn (Pitcairn Island – 1.9%), .me (Montenegro – 1.8%), .info (1.6%) and .ru (Russia – 1.5%). The remaining 27.3 percent came from 201 TLDs.
But the TLDs with the most phishing domains per domains registered was .np (Nepal) with 27.1 phishing domains per 10,000 registrations and 32,500 registrations. In the top ten, those TLDs with more than 100,000 registrations were .pw (Palau) with a phishing per 10,000 domains score of 26.4 who came in second, .cl (Chile – 18.2) was fourth, .gr (Greece – 10.2) was sixth, .id (Indonesia – 10.2) and .br (Brazil – 9.1).
For registrars, the top nine with domains used for phishing on a registrations per 10,000 domains are located in China. This is due, the report notes, to the fact that Chinese phishers tend to register domain names for their phishing, and use Chinese registrars regularly. Domains registered at the Chinese registrars were often used to phish Chinese targets such as Alibaba, Taobao.com, and CCTV, but were also used to occasionally phish outside targets such as Facebook and PayPal.
For more information, check out the 30 page APWG report available for download from:
docs.apwg.org/reports/APWG_GlobalPhishingSurvey_2H2013.pdf.
There is also a Phishing Activity Trends Report for the 4th Quarter 2013 titled Unifying the Global Response To Cybercrime available from:
docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q4_2013.pdf.
Sedo Reports $1,2 Million in Domain Name Sales! Autos.de Topped Sedo’s Weekly Sales List at 120,000 EUR
Autos.de topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at 120,000 EUR. Highlights also include Kalamata.com, leading the .COM category at 45,000 EUR and 房地产.在线 (portfolio with 3 domains),leading the “Other” category at $16,000.
Other notable domain name sales include :
.COM
kalamata.com45000EUR
rdh.com29000USD
riversoftware.com25000USD
3dworld.com20000EUR
renergy.com16000USD
healthjoy.com9500USD
hothotels.com9000USD
oric.com8888USD
7976.com8000USD
sequoiaclub.com8000USD
bizroom.com7200EUR
acps.com7000USD
scq.com6975USD
trdr.com6000USD
mytraveldate.com6000USD
verie.com5500EUR
zenpix.com4500USD
eurobottle.com4500USD
super-shop.com4000EUR
365flowers.com3999EUR
solenis.com3900EUR
touchtek.com3900EUR
freejunkremoval.com3899USD
eldoradoresorts.com3799USD
sexpectations.com3680USD
jonmiller.com3400USD
host24.com3200USD
homeglobal.com3200USD
24trade.com3000EUR
summercampguide.com3000USD
lescontemplatives.com2877USD
giwit.com2800USD
flycoin.com2795USD
solistar.com2695USD
gushiwen.com2695USD
unyte.com2502USD
ilikeradio.com2500USD
discountcheer.com2500USD
daana.com2500USD
aligur.com2450USD
maxxload.com2395USD
goaltv.com2300USD
wepartners.com2300USD
japfa.com2295USD
17n.com2200USD
barber-shop.com 2200USD
boxsizer.com 2195USD
masterstart.com2095USD
goodes.com2077USD
ccTLD
dentiste.fr15000EUR
ads.to9999USD
tuenti.com.mx9900USD
retrofit.de7500EUR
count.to5555EUR
flipkart.cn5000EUR
printerpix.fr5000EUR
kinox.tv3700EUR
flipkart.pl3500EUR
flipkart.nl3500EUR
sportcheck.at3000EUR
24ads.ru3000USD
xhamster.fr3000USD
tello.co.uk3000GBP
weddingparty.co2999USD
sound.to2000EUR
saturday.gr1940USD
laufhaus.de1900EUR
hazine.de1800EUR
casinomobile.it1800EUR
raceworks.com.au1790USD
greentube.pt1750EUR
nube.co1500USD
Other
ejm.org9888USD
域名投资.在线 (portfolio with 12 domains)2500USD
server-hosting.org2500EUR
futbol.pro2400EUR
看电视.在线 (portfolio with 13 domains)2000USD
mythings.net1850EUR
wifispeedtest.net1577USD
whatsup.today1500EUR
dreamshots.net1500USD
casino-spielen.net1500EUR
mswprograms.org1250USD
server-hosting.net1000USD
friday.org999EUR
television.info999EUR
sentio.net996USD
planethosting.net995USD
focolari.org879USD
turnup.net850USD
servus.net850EUR
torrevieja.net800USD
about-you.net750EUR
Check out Sedo.com for more information .
Orgasms.com Sells for $38,000 on SnapNames
The domain name Orgasms.com just sold on SnapNames for $38,166 on SnapNames.com .The domain name has an Estibot appraised value of $143,000.
According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 1997. It looks like the doamin name expired in March and has a new registration date of May 1st,2014.
At the time of writing this article, the domain name redirects to another adult site.
Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer.
