May Digest: The Most Important Events at Infonica
We offer our readers the May edition of a digest of the most interesting events in the domain industry and IT in December, published on Infonica.
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Top 10 Most Expensive .XXX Domains
The .XXX porn domain is still very young, compared to top-level domains like .COM and .NET. While it can't yet boast of large multi-million dollar deals, it has already seen several significant sales.
Google may lose the Google Drive logo in Russia.
The company "ProMT" filed an application with Rospatent for a logo that is similar in appearance to the Google Drive logo.
It was revealed that Google filed a similar application four days after this one. The logos are visually similar, meaning Rospatent may reject one of the applications.
Facebook shares show slight gains for the first time
For the first time since its IPO, Facebook shares rose slightly. While yesterday's stock closed at $31, this morning they were trading at $32.30.
Most Popular Website Themes
The creators of LeanDomainSearch, a domain name generator, analyzed the most popular website themes.
The themes were analyzed by removing prefixes and suffixes from the main words. As a reminder, the researchers previously presented the mostpopular list of suffixes and prefixes.
Russia wants to tax website owners
The Russian Authors' Society (RAO) wants to demand royalties from websites in the .RU and .РФ domains.
The corresponding amendments to the legislation were made to the Civil Code.
Apple has gained control of the iPhone5.com domain.
Apple was able to gain control of the iPhone5.com domain. Apple's interest in this domain has been known sinceat the beginning of May.
The company needs this domain name for the upcoming announcement of a new version of its smartphone, or more precisely, for the website – the official representation of the domain.
Cyrillic email will appear in a year
In June 2013, Cyrillic email will be launched in Russia. Addresses in this email will be available in the Cyrillic domain .РФ.
To create Cyrillic email, a special data exchange protocol was developed and implemented to convert Cyrillic names to Latin and vice versa. Each Cyrillic domain hides a long Latin name.
Only 1% of Russians work with the IPv6 protocol.
Currently, 1% of Russian internet users use the new IPv6 internet protocol.
This figure is slightly below the average for other countries. If providers fail to switch to the new protocol, users could face serious problems.
Google wins over 750 domain names
Google won a lawsuit against cybersquatters over 750 domain names. These domains were used almost exclusively for traffic generation. According to Google representatives, all of these domain names violated Google's trademarks by containing the word "google" in their names.
The Top 15 Most Expensive .COM Domains of April 2012
The most expensive domain name in April 2012 was Jackpot.com, which sold for half a million dollars on the Moniker online auction.
Norway leads in IPv6 adoption
According to a study conducted by RIPE, the European coordinating body for IP address space, Norway is the leader in the use of the new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6.
The number of domains in .RF is approaching 800,000.
There are currently 796,000 active domain names in the .РФ domain zone. This number is steadily growing, suggesting that the 800,000 domain name mark for the Cyrillic .РФ domain is just around the corner.
There are 662 million websites on the Internet.
According to data from the monitoring company Netcraft, as of May 1, 2012, there were 662,959,946 websites operating on the Internet.
This number was 14 million fewer than at the beginning of April. For the first time in almost two years, the number of websites on the internet has declined.
Russia and China are the most dangerous countries in terms of piracy.
The US Trade Agency has named Russia and China as the worst countries violating copyright.
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In 2011, the .RU domain took fifth place among national domains.
The Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain presented a report on the state of the Russian domain market in 2011.
According to the report, in 2011, the .RU domain moved from 6th to 5th place among national domains and demonstrated strong growth, maintaining its position in the top ten. At the end of 2011, the Russian national top-level domain .RU overtook the domains of the European Union (.EU) and China (.CN).
How to register a domain in .ORG.UA
The .ORG.UA domain is free and was originally intended for non-profit companies and organizations. Anyone can register their name here. We present the first article in a series on how to register a .ORG.UA domain name.
Microsoft is the most frequent complainer about pirated content.
According to Google, Microsoft is the most active source of complaints about pirated content. The number of complaints filed on its behalf even exceeds those from resources distributing unlicensed movie and music content.
Google has released a data report on copyright holder requests to remove links from search results. Most often, the company is approached about copyright infringement.
Let's talk about domains. Domain registration and delegation
We're continuing to publish content in our virtual encyclopedia of domains and hosting. We've already covered what a domain is, why you need one, and the different types of domains. We've even started writing about how to choose a domain name. Today, we'll talk about how to get your own domain.
Almost anyone can get a domain. There are restrictions on obtaining domains in some domain extensions (for example, .UA), but most top-level domains allow anyone to obtain domain names in them.
Let's talk about domains. What types of generic top-level domains are there?
A few days ago, we talked about the types of domains in general and provided a generally accepted classification https://info.nic.ua/articles/article-opinion/pogovorim-o-domenah-kakie-byivayut-domenyi/: generic top-level domains (GTLDs), country-code domains (ccTLDs), internationalized domains (IDNs), and reserved domain names.
Now let's try to briefly understand the classification of generic top-level domains – the so-called gTLDs.
Domain Selection Tips: Part 1
As part of our "Let's Talk About Domains" series, in today's article we decided to move away from the not-always-engaging theory of domains and domain naming and talk about more down-to-earth and engaging topics.
How do you choose the right domain name for your future website? Google will return countless pages of advice on the subject. Some of it will be helpful, some will be rubbish. We'll try to compile the most interesting ones in today's article. The title of this article includes the addition "Part 1." This addition is intentional. Firstly, we don't claim to be exhaustive and are confident that we will continue to add to this advice. Furthermore, our readers will undoubtedly share their own tips on choosing a domain name with us over time.
Ukraine ranks seventh in the world for the number of spam botnets.
According to Symantec's Global Information Security Report, Ukraine ranked seventh in terms of the number of spam botnets. Last year, our country ranked only twentieth on the list. Furthermore, Ukrainian bots were recognized as the longest-lived – they rank ninth globally in terms of operational duration, with an average active period of 10 days.
Residents of Ukraine consider copyright infringement to be normal.
Ukrainian agency"Rating"conducted a study in which it attempted to answer questions about how Ukrainians assess the fact of copyright infringement.
The survey results suggest that Ukrainians consider copyright infringement to be normal and commonplace, yet they also believe that such rights should be protected. Nearly 80% of respondents agreed that intellectual property should be protected in Ukraine. Fifty-eight percent of respondents believe copyright should always be respected, 21% believe it should be respected in some cases, and only 4% believe copyright should not be protected. Seventeen percent of Ukrainians remained undecided on this issue.
Sedo presented its domain market research for the first quarter of 2012.
Online auction Sedo presented itsreporton the state of the secondary domain market in the first quarter of 2012.
Let's talk about domains. What kinds of domains are there?
The "Let's Talk About Domains" column continues to inform Infonica readers about everything related to domain names, hosting, and other aspects of the domain industry.
The second material in our training series is devoted to the types of domains.In the first materialIt was explained that domain names consist of several parts, which are also called domains. For example, in the name info.nic.ua, .UA is a domain, .NIC.UA is also a domain, as is info.nic.ua. Only .UA can be considered a top-level domain; .NIC.UA is also a domain, but only a second-level domain, and, accordingly, info.nic.ua is a third-level domain.
