Domain Name

It's been a very interesting week for The Pirate Bay with the file sharing website moving ccTLDs for the fourth time. The latest move from .gy (Guyana) happened in less than 24 hours and TPB is now hosted back on a .se (Sweden) domain, where it was back in April....(For the whole article, please click the link provided below.)

Analytics company learned its lesson but ended up with the “right” domain name.

A Domain Name Wire reader alerted me to a blog post from web analytics service Clicky that it penned when it changed its domain name back in December. (Yes, it was back in December, but it doesn’t seem that anyone in the domain world picked up on it.)

For six year Clicky went by the name Clicky but its domain name was GetClicky.com. In December it bought the Clicky.com domain name and transitioned to the new web address.

ICANN has published a timeline outlining the key steps until the launch of the first New gTLD. The date was predicted to be September 28 this year.

If everything goes smoothly according to the timetable, the sunrise notice period of the first New gTLD will be from 29 August to 27 September. Then the actual sunrise period will start from 28 September to 27 October.

.ORG Releases 94 Never-Registered One- and Two-Character Domains

Google.ie Hijacked and IEDR Site Offline

Yesterday afternoon both google.ie and yahoo.ie were hijacked. For a period of time the domain names’ DNS servers were changed to those of a 3rd party and anyone trying to reach either site was being redirected elsewhere.

We first broke this story yesterday afternoon on technology.ie, which is an internet and technology site that we also run.

So what exactly happened and what is going to happen now?

Kozmo.com may be defunct but it’s domain registration lives on.

In July I wrote about how Los Angeles company Yummy Foods, LLC wanted to relaunch the Kozmo.com delivery brand.

Kozmo.com was one of the biggest dot.com busts. It raised around $250 million in order to deliver a pack of gum to your house with no delivery fee.

How Many Domain Names Papa? 240 Million And Rising！

Sedo,the world s largest domain name marketplace and monetization provider,announced that visitors attempting to access Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk websites have been receiving security alerts preventing entry .

You can read Sedo s announcement after the jump :