December Digest: The Most Important Events at Infonic
We offer our readers the December edition of the digest of the most interesting events in the domain industry and IT in December, published on Info.NIC.
News
ASUS has been accused of patent infringement by a manufacturer of transforming toys.
Hasbro has filed a lawsuit against Taiwan's ASUSTeK Computer Inc. The lawsuit accuses ASUS of illegally using the Transformer Prime name for a tablet.
The copyright holder is asking the court to award monetary compensation and ban the sale of Transformer Prime in the United States.
Germany may ban sales of HTC smartphones
The ban may be due to a lawsuit filed by the German company IPCom.
HTC smartphones with 3G support may be withdrawn from sale; IPCom's lawsuit states that the company owns patents describing UMTS cellular communication technologies.
GoDaddy accused of violating rules and unfair competition
GoDaddy, one of the largest domain registrars, has once again found itself at the center of controversy. The company was accused of violating ICANN rules, specifically, artificially deterring customers who wanted to switch registrars.
Registrars are preparing to launch geodomains in .РФ.
Russian registrars are preparing to launch geodomains in the Cyrillic .РФ domain zone. For example, the St. Petersburg-based company Netfox intends to promote the new domain zone ".спб.рф."
The company is prepared to sell addresses at a fixed price of 50,000 rubles per address during the premium registration period.
The Vatican's .XXX domain has been registered.
The domain name vatican.xxx was not registered by the official Vatican.
The Pope's press service reports that the Catholic Church has no connection to this domain. The official statement about this domain reads as follows: "For several days now, information has been circulating online that the Vatican has allegedly acquired the domain vatican.xxx to prevent its inappropriate use (.xxx was created specifically for adult websites). In reality, the domain is unavailable because it has already been acquired by someone else, and not the Vatican."
The most expensive domain names of 2011
Domain Journal has compiled a list of the most expensive domain deals of 2011.
So far, the largest domain deal in the history of the internet was the purchase of the Sex.com domain in 2010 for $13 million. This year's leader is the Social.com domain, which cost its buyers only $2.6 million.
Top most expensive domains in November in national domain zones
We present to your attention a list of the most expensive domains sold on the secondary market in November 2011 in national domain zones.
Russian companies are preparing to apply for new gTLDs.
Russian companies and public organizations are preparing to submit applications for new top-level domains. The total number of new domain zones could exceed twenty.
Yandex will warn owners of infected websites.
Yandex will notify owners of websites infected with malware.
To do this, the company will send an email to the addresses specified in the domain name registration data.
Ru-Center launched an open auction for .РФ domains.
Ru-Center has launched an open domain auction in the .РФ domain zone. The auction offers .РФ domains and third-level domains (including geodomains).
Results of the 2011 domain year
2011 Domain Year in Review: Hostmaster Executives and .UA Administrator
The Infonic publication offers its readers a summary of the year's results on the domain markets in Ukraine, Russia, and the world.
The director of the company "Hostmaster" answers our questions.Tatiana Dolinskaya, Head of Implementation and Operations DepartmentSvetlana Tkachenko and domain administrator .UA Dmitry Kokhmanyuk.
The Global Domain Market in 2011: Key Events. IPv6 and DNSSEC
In 2011, the transition to the new Internet protocol IPv6. On the pages of our publication you can read materials about what it is.IPv6 And DNSSEC, and also read ten interesting facts about the protocol.IPv6.
The reason for the introduction of IPv6 was the exhaustion of the domain address space that existed in the IPv4 protocol.
February 3, 2011, went down in the history of the global IT industry as the day the end began. On this day, according to the RIPE-436 document, the IANA, the organization managing the number allocation,conveyedfor distribution by regional internet registries (RIRs) to consumers of the last five blocks of IP addresses /8.
Domain Year 2011 in Review. Sergey Povalishev, Director of Hoster.by
Today we present the results of the 2011 domain year from Sergey Povalichev, head of Hoster.by (Belarus).
The Global Domain Market in 2011: Key Events. New gTLDs
The domain market underwent significant changes in 2011 that will significantly impact its future. These changes concern both the logical structure of the domain name system and the strengthening of its security.
In 2011, ICANN made a landmark decision to expand the domain name system. The New gTLD program sparked heated debate and even protests in the domain name community.
The Global Domain Market in 2011: Key Events. The .XXX Domain
In 2011, the first websites in the .XXX domain zone, a special domain for pornographic resources, began appearing in the global domain name system. Even during the priority registration phase for the .XXX domain, all trademark owners were asked to block domains with their names to protect themselves from other companies or users using their trademarks.
Domain Year 2011 in Review. Georgy Georgievskiy, .RU Domain Coordination Center
Infonic presents its readers with a year-end summary of the domain markets in Ukraine, Russia, and the world. Leading experts and representatives of major companies and organizations answered our questions.
We offer answers from the head of the department for work with registrars and users of the Coordination Center for the national Internet domain.George Georgievsky.
Articles
The Ukrainian Prime Minister is ready to be sued over his trademark.
The leader of the Union of Anarchists of Ukraine, Vyacheslav Azarov, is ready to sue Prime Minister Mykola Azarov over the registration of his trademark.
As a reminder, Mykola Azarov recently registered the "Azarov" trademark. This was done so that the prime minister could obtain social media accounts under his name or prohibit others from using such accounts.
New gTLD program sparks growing protests
With just days left before applications for new top-level domains (TLDs) begin to be accepted under the New gTLD program, protests against the introduction of these top-level domains are growing.
Analysts predict the collapse of social networks and a shift to the cloud
Experts from the analytics firm Gartner have presented their forecast for the development of the IT sector for 2012-2016. These trends, according to the experts, will have the greatest impact on the global economy, businesses, and users.
Dmitry Kokhmanyuk: DNSSEC will provide better protection for your domain.
DNS Protocol Extension –DNSSEC systemIt is being actively implemented in many domain zones. We previously wrote about the fact thatThe German domain has switched to DNSSEC support.,largest registrarsare also implementing this protocol. A few days ago,DNSSEC key generation ceremony for the .UA domain.
The administrator of the .UA domain kindly agreed to tell us more about the DNSSEC system.Dmitry Kokhmanyuk.
