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With the increasing penetration of ICT and the changing culture of the society, users of ICT are accumulating virtual assets of various kinds. For example, people buy domain names through registrars with substantial costs. They may [...]

TV.de leads .de domain name pre-auction. When .de registry DENIC starts releasing previously unavailable domain names tomorrow, you can bet a lot of Sedo ’s partner registrars will be hammering the registry for TV.de. A “pre-auction” for TV.de closed at 279,499 EUR, which is about $419,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The auction is still ongoing as I write this (thanks to Sedo’s web site failing under the bidding activity), but only one character .de domain names remain open for

In a court ruling out of the UK, a British court has ruled against the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s attempt to seize gambling domains. As you will just over a year ago, before the TRAFFIC NY 2008 show, the the Commonwealth of Kentucky sent a seizure order to the registrars of 141 gambling domain names , demanding that those domains be forfeited to Kentucky. The 141 domains ranged from parked domains, to some of the biggest gambling sites on the Internet. Pocket Kings Limited which owns the d

Australian domain company signs new sales agreement with Go Daddy. Dark Blue Sea, parent company of Fabulous , has had a rough year. It probably hit bottom back in July, when GoDaddy pulled out of a sales distribution agreement with the company. Perhaps it’s one of those on-again, off-again relationships, as the two registrars have inked another sales agreement . This is good news, given that an outside investor is currently trying to takeover the company . I checked in w

We all know that hackers and eCriminals attack websites directly, skillfully and frequently. As site administrators have grown more skilled at protecting themselves, hackers have turned to a new attack vector: hijacking site addresses. Site-address attacks, a relatively new phenomenon, emerged as hackers discovered that many domain registries and registrars were relatively soft targets. Targeting registries and registrars with the aim of pointing the domains to a different location — “changin