The security of domain name registrations is an increasing concern for domain name registrants and registrars. However, there are steps you can take to increase the security of your domain name registrations.
Domain Name Security is often neglected by most organisations. Infact a large number of hacking attempts do not really need to happen at the [...]
Getting clicks and traffic by accident appears to be big business. And by ‘big’ I mean worth MILLIONS of dollars! While typosquatting is unfortunately not a new online marketing practice, its use and, moreover, its ABUSE has grown significantly and exponentially since 2000.
Cybersquatting means registering, trafficking in or using a domain name with the intent [...]
In a landmark case, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has just stated that domain names, despite their virtual nature, should be treated exactly as a “plot of land” would be.
This is a huge victory for all domain name registrants, not just for Gary Kremen who can now continue his lawsuit against Network Solutions [...]
Domain names are becoming “hot” property – as in *theft* for resale. More and more companies are finding they cannot get their trademarked names as a domain name because so few good names are left. But sometimes it’s outright extortion as when a Fortune 500 company name is reserved by someone that has no intention [...]
SO YOU PONIED UP $70 TO LOCK DOWN TWO YEARS’ CONTROL OF THE WEB address www.yourname.com, plus another $140 for the suffixes .net and .org. What about .cc, .nu, .md, or any of the almost 250 other country-code top-level domains that have hit the Internet?
Country-code domains are two-letter Internet addresses styled after International Telecommunications Union [...]
Just click your heels three times and repeat after me, “There’s nothin like owning your own domain name…there’s nothin like owning your own domain name.”
Are You The Master Of Your Domain Name?
Just recently, I was approached by a client who thought it odd that they never received any renewal notices on their domain name. A [...]
MOST OF THE TIME, FINDING OUR WAY along the information superhighway is easy. We don’t even have to ask for directions. If we want information on The Coca Cola Co., we just go to coke.com, and there it is. And if we want information about Disneyworld, it can be found at disney.com.
However, until recently, if [...]
Website Name Domain Dispute is no longer news unless a Madonna or Julia Roberts type of celebrity gets involved. However, greater now than ever is the risk for domain registrants to lose their domain names when they get involved in a domain dispute. .
The risk is originated from the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (the Policy) [...]
A domain name is placed in Redemption Period status when a registrar requests the deletion of a name that is not within the Add Grace Period.
Redemption Period:
A name that is in redemption period status will not be included in the zone file. A registrar can not modify or purge a name in redemption period status. [...]
If you have or are about to purchase a domain name, YOU could be in trouble and you don’t even know it yet…
See, what the domain sellers won’t tell you is that the domain name you are purchasing or have purchased can possibly infringe on trademark rights and you can lose that domain name or [...]