A friend contacted me about a great brandable .com domain, pertaining to the ever-busy security industry. It's a two word amalgam, equal to terms like Verisign, Netflix or Verizon. His plight, was the arrogant email he received from a party interested in acquiring that domain. The other party, … [Read more...]
Brandable domains: Don’t even bother with automatic domain evaluation tools
You’re gonna make me an offa
The global element of the Internet allows different cultures and languages to converge commercially; the common denominator being, domain names. When domain offers arrive from different locations around the globe, one must take into consideration the linguistic peculiarities of those who present … [Read more...]
Internet Traffic: LinkedIn addition was a brilliant move
Having just completed a $5,000 sale on Internet Traffic, I need to thank Frank Schilling and his remarkable team in the Caymans, for yet another pair of brilliant additions to the DNS platform. The introduction of both Facebook and LinkedIn log-ins, expands on the game of understanding your … [Read more...]
Game of bureaucracy thrones: ICANN, GoDaddy & Pacnames and a stolen domain saga
The process of reclaiming stolen domain names isn't easy; the main culprit appears to be the lack of a solid process that would handle such cases. With ICANN rolling out dozens of new gTLDs, it's important to ensure not only the security of the new domain names that will emerge, but to improve … [Read more...]
Blast from the distant past: Network Solutions and domain security
It's been almost five years since I released some information on domain security, as implemented by Network Solutions in the past; those were the days that domain registration was a monopoly. In a post titled "Sedo scammers take advantage of email predictability", I referenced the method that … [Read more...]
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