The holiday season slowed down domain name sales, but still, our top listed domain did not disappoint. Advance.com was sold to Advance Publications Inc, an American media company, for $300,000….
January 5, 2017
December 23, 2016
Christmas shopping for .shop domains has just become free! Two domain registrars, Moniker and Domaindiscount24 begin to offer them for free until 23 December 2016. The Christmas special applies to…
December 15, 2016
It’s that time of year: the phishing trends of 2016 have just been revealed. It turns out that 84% of observed phishing sites existed for less than 24 hours averaging…
December 9, 2016
On 6 December 2016 GoDaddy was confirmed to acquire Host Group Europe (HEG), the largest privately owned web services provider whose brands include well-known host providers and domain registrars 123Reg,…
December 7, 2016
The amendments to ICANN’s (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) inter-registrar transfer policy have been literally years in the making. At last, they take effect on 1 December 2016….
December 2, 2016
In the biggest domain sale for the year so far, the price for the domain name HG.com hit $3,770,000. It was acquired by Chinese wine company WanJiahuan Gou in a…
November 30, 2016
Europol’s recent report on the cybercriminal economy highlights eight big cybercrime trends that are likely to continue in the foreseeable future. The report also stresses that the scope, volume and…
November 29, 2016
It seems that fake domain expiration emails are back in vogue. They allegedly come from the domain registration service and claim they are an expiration notice. People think that their…
November 27, 2016
The week of 21 November 2016 opened with a bang. Oracle announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, a leading cloud-based Internet performance and DNS provider. Dyn, which…
November 21, 2016
