September Digest: The Most Important Events at Infonic
We offer our readers the April edition of a digest of the most interesting events in the domain industry and IT in September, published on Info.NIC.
News
Microsoft and Samsung have agreed to patent cooperation.
Microsoft Corporation has signed a cross-licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, providing both companies with access to each other's patents. Under the terms, Microsoft will receive royalties from patents used in Samsung mobile phones and tablets running the Android platform.
Samsung is ready to aggressively fight Apple.
Samsung representatives announced their readiness to aggressively fight the patent dispute with Apple. Previously, the company had only passively defended itself, unable to foresee such a development.
NIC.UA has merged with hosting provider HOSTED.UA.
The combined company will operate under the NIC.UA brand and provide domain registration and hosting services.
Apple has been banned from using the word "multitouch"
The US Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple the trademark "Multi-Touch." The patent office believes the word has a "universal meaning," meaning it can be applied to products from other companies as well as Apple devices.
Cyrillic domains are now available in the AdWords editor.
The AdWords contextual advertising system now allows the use of Cyrillic domains. This new feature will be especially useful for owners of websites written in Cyrillic.
Lady Gaga fails to win domain dispute
Famous American singer Lady Gaga lost the dispute over the Ladygaga.org domain. The panel of the US National Arbitration Forum (NAF) ruled that the domain will remain with its previous owners.
Microsoft takes control of the HTML5.com domain name
Back in January, the HTML5.com domain redirected users to Apple's website. Now, nine months later, this domain redirects visitors to Microsoft's "beautyoftheweb.com."
The largest torrent tracker on the RuNet turns seven years old.
On September 18, 2011, RuTracker.org, the largest torrent resource on the RuNet, celebrated its seventh anniversary. The site has over 9.8 million registered accounts and over 1.1 million downloads.
Hackers breached GoDaddy's websites.
Websites operated by GoDaddy, one of the largest hosting providers, were hacked. In total, nearly 500 of the company's customer accounts were compromised.
Google's domain was registered 14 years ago.
The domain name google.com was registered 14 years ago, on September 15, 1997. In 1998, the company was renamed Google. Initially, the search engine was called BackRub, and it only received the Google name in 1998.
Russia has begun discussing new rules for registering .RU and .РФ domains.
The Coordination Center for the National Domain of the Internet Network has published draft new rules for registering domain names in .RU and .РФ.
At the beginning of September, there were more than 480 million websites operating on the Internet.
According to Netcraft, 485 million websites were active online at the beginning of September. This is 4.8%, or 22 million web resources, more than the previous month.
The .RU domain ranked fourth in the world among national domains.
According to the Coordination Center for TLD RU, based on registration results in August, the .RU domain surpassed the European Union (.EU) and Chinese (.CN) domains in absolute numbers of registered names. This placed the .RU domain fourth in the ranking of national domains.
.XXX is available for registration
The period of preliminary priority registration of domains in the .XXX domain zone has begun.
During this period, which will last from September 7 to October 28, 2011, representatives of the adult industry who hold exclusive rights to trademarks/service marks that were registered before September 1, 2011, in accordance with the laws of the country of their use will be able to register their names; as well as representatives of the adult industry who wish to register a .XXX domain name that is confusingly similar to their second- or third-level domain name in other top-level domains.
The Mozilla Foundation won a lawsuit against a Russian company over the Firefox trademark.
The Patent Disputes Chamber panel upheld the Mozilla Foundation's complaint and took away the Firefox trademark from the Russian company SaleNames.
Anonymous hacked Facebook, Skype, Apple, and Microsoft through DNS hacking.
Hackers from Anonymous attacked servers belonging to Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Skype, Cisco, and Novell. The attack was carried out by compromising the DNS server system. The hackers replaced the correct IP address in the system table with a fake one.
Google has lost another domain.
It has been revealed that Google has lost control of the Gmail.us domain name. This domain still redirects to the Gmail website. However, according toWhois data, the owner of the domain became Ilya Gerashchenko, who lives in the Russian Federation.
Articles
Study: Americans are choosing .ORG domains during the crisis.
A recent survey by Public Interest Registry (PIR) found that .ORG domain names are viewed by Americans as the most viable alternative to .COM domains.
It's no secret that corporate use of social media has increased exponentially in recent years, raising questions about the future of the corporate website as a concept. However, according to a new study by the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the vast majority of Americans continue to rely on traditional websites when searching for reliable information about an organization, company, or brand.
Google continues to buy patents
Google is trying to defend its Android mobile operating system from patent lawsuits in every possible way. While Apple hasn't yet filed a lawsuit against Google itself, several major Android phone makers have already suffered from patent issues, with the scandal being particularly notable.with SamsungApple is also suing Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC, which Google shielded from future problems a few weeks ago.by transferring his patents to the company.
Typosquatters make big money
Analysts from the research company Godai Group attempted to measure the scale of the typosquatter business.
To do this, the experts registered several domain names similar in spelling to well-known websites, including Fortune 500 resources. After six months of operation, the owners of these lookalike domains received over 20 GB of emails. The senders had misspelled the address. Over six months, the report's authors received over 120,000 messages.
RU-CENTER has begun registration in the .XXX domain.
Starting from September 7, RU-CENTER began accepting applications for domain registration in the .XXX domain zone.
The priority registration period will run from September 7 to October 28. During this period, only adult industry representatives—those with exclusive rights to trademarks—can register names, provided they were registered before September 1, 2011.
