November Digest: The Most Important Events at Infonic
We offer our readers the October edition of the digest of the most interesting events in the domain industry and IT in September, published on Info.NIC.
News
The US has banned the sale of some HTC smartphones.
The US International Trade Commission has banned the sale of some HTC smartphones because they infringe Apple patents.
The commission is confident that a ban on the import of these devices will not lead to a monopolization of the American smartphone market.
Motorola defeats Apple in patent dispute
Motorola Mobility has won a lawsuit against Apple in a patent dispute.
The court found Apple guilty of infringing two Motorola patents. The disputed patents relate to data packet transmission technology in mobile networks and methods for exchanging messages between devices.
Apple filed a complaint against the owners of six porn sites.
Apple has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The complaint concerns the owners of pornographic websites whose domain names use the word "iPhone."
In November, the number of websites exceeded 525 million.
According to the analytics company Netcraft, in November 2011, the number of websites on the Internet was 525,998,433. This is 4.3%, or 22 million, more than in October.
The Pirate Bay torrent tracker has become an alcohol brand.
The name of the well-known torrent tracker The Pirate Bay will soon be associated with alcoholic beverages. A man named Colin Scragg has won a trademark dispute for "The Pirate Bay" in the alcoholic beverages category. This means Scragg will be able to use the name "The Pirate Bay" for this purpose.
Bulgaria is trying to get a Cyrillic domain.
Bulgaria plans to soon apply for the Cyrillic top-level domain .БГ. ICANN previously denied the country's application for this domain.
Facebook is building its largest data center in Asia.
Facebook plans to build its largest data center in Taiwan. The server station will cover approximately 67 square kilometers—the equivalent of 180 basketball courts. It will be located in the Central Taiwan Science Park.
A stop list of "bad" addresses will appear in the .RU domain.
The Coordination Center for the National Internet Domain is preparing to create a stop list of addresses prohibited for registration.
".РФ" domains will be available to citizens of other countries
On November 11, 2011, new rules for registering domains in the .RU and .РФ zones came into force.
According to the new rules, domain name registrations in the .RU and .РФ zones will be linked to a mobile phone number—delegation of rights to the received name will be carried out exclusively by sending a confirmation SMS message.
October's most expensive .COM domains
We present to your attention the top most expensive domains of October in the most popular domain zone .COM.
Top most popular domains in October in national domain zones
We present to your attention the next domain "top" - domain deals regarding domains of national domain zones
BIND 9 DNS server contains a critical vulnerability.
Security experts have reported the existence of a critical vulnerability in one of the most popular DNS servers on the Internet, BIND 9.
The .РФ domain became one of the main achievements of the RuNet in 2011.
When identifying the main achievements of the RuNet in 2011, experts named the development of the .РФ domain among others.
Apple wins iPhone porn domains
Apple has gained control over domain names mentioning the iPhone, which previously redirected users to pornographic websites.
These domains include iphonesex4s.com, iphone4s.com and six others.
Articles
Attackers have stepped up phishing attacks.
According to research by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), phishing attacks on Chinese e-commerce and banking sites have increased recently, with the number of attacks increasing by over 44%.
The .РФ domain has approached a million in a year.
The Coordination Center for the Russian National Internet Domain (RUD) presented the results of the first year of work for the Russian Cyrillic domain.RF.
The first month was the highest in terms of registrations, with over 596,000 domain names registered, and over 207,000 applications submitted on the first day. 45% of all applications were approved in the first month.
The porn industry has spoken out against the .XXX domain zone.
Representatives of the pornography industry have filed a lawsuit against the administrator of the .XXX domain, ICM Registry, and the ICANN organization.
According to the plaintiffs, the creation of the .XXX domain extension is an example of unfair competition. Furthermore, representatives of companies operating in the pornography industry are dissatisfied with the excessively high prices for .XXX domains.
Premium registration has begun for the .XXX porn domain.
The .XXX porn domain is now open for premium domain name registration. The premium domain registration period (Landrush period) allows those who were unable to obtain a domain during the first priority registration period to apply for a domain name. This period runs until November 25th.
Sedo announced sales results for the third quarter of 2012.
Sedo, one of the largest online secondary domain marketplaces, has published the results of its market research for the third quarter of 2011. It presents the key trends in this market, identified based on the company's underlying transactions.
Group-IB and HostExploit have published the Top 50 "Worst Networks and Hosts"
The report shows that the highest levels of malicious activity are observed in the autonomous systems of Lithuania.
Norwegian domain war: Elineweb vs Norid
The launch of free registration for the Norwegian subdomain .CO.NO was a joint initiative of the registrar Elineweb and CoDNS BV (a technical center). With more lenient registration rules, .CO.NO could become an alternative to Norway's national domain NO, under which companies are allowed to have a maximum of 20 domains.
The court found Ru-Center not guilty of violations in the registration of .РФ domains.
The Moscow Arbitration Court upheld the FAS decision, which found Russia's largest registrar, Ru-Center, guilty of violating the law during the registration of domain names in the Cyrillic domain .РФ.
