Back in February, Jamie from DotWeekly.com reported that Tucow’s YummyNames.com had sold Mixer.com to an unknown MarkMonitor client. That client is confirmed today to be Microsoft. Microsoft is rebranding Beam, Microsoft’s answer to Twitch and YouTube Gaming. Microsoft also purchased Mixer.tv. The company announced the rebranding today, This latest Domain News has been posted from…
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.STUDY, .SCIENCE and .RACING Have Highest Concentrations Of Malicious Activity: DomainTools
DomainTools has released their 2017 DomainTools Report that looks at the various “hotspots” of malicious or abusive activity across the internet, analysing the generic top level domains (gTLDs) with the highest concentrations of malicious activity. Their research found that .science had the highest concentration of bad domains, followed by .study and .racing. None of the…
Emojis can be used to show intent ?
There has been a lot of talk about emojis when it comes to domain names. It now seems that they are moving their way to be used in court proceedings. There was an article on TheNextWeb, where a landlord in Israel was successful in proving that he was misled by the use of emojis. A…
.CH Celebrates 30 Years As Europe’s Safest TLD
The Swiss ccTLD, .ch, celebrated 30 years of existence last Saturday, with the SWITCH Foundation, the current registry, being established later the same year. The .ch country code top level domain entered the domain name system on 20 May 1987, and on 22 October the SWITCH Foundation was established. In the intervening 30 years, .ch…
.ASIA Opening Up To The World
The .asia top level domain is opening itself up to any person or individual anywhere in the world with changes coming to eligibility requirements. The new eligibility requirements will mean global communities doing business in Asia and Asian communities living outside the region will be able to register .asia domain names without local presence requirements…