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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
Jackson. |
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.Com
Turns 30! With Top Domains Now Worth a Fortune
More Criminals are Trying to Crash the Party
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Happy
30th Anniversary .Com!
The world's most popular domain
extension reached that milestone
today (March 15, 2015) - three
decades after the first .com domain
- Symbolics.com
- was registered on March 15,
1985. The special occasion has
been highlighted by news reports
around the world. CNN.com
published a very good article
on the history of the first domain
including how the current owner,
Aron Meystedt, came to acquire
it from the Symbolics
Corporation in 2009.
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.Com
image from Bigstock
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Symbolics.com
owner Aron Meystedt |
That
same year we posted a Cover
Story profile of
Aron, a veteran domain investor
who also currently serves as
Director of the Intellectual
Property Division at giant
mainstream auction house, Heritage
Auctions. Shortly
after Aron
arrived at HA he
made them the first major
auction house to offer premium
domain names as assets alongside
traditional high end
collectibles like art, coins and
jewelry. The company has
now staged several
successful live domain auctions,
the most recent being just last
month at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in New York City.
While
Meystedt has done some
development work on
Symbolics.com to generate a
revenue stream from the steady
flow of traffic, his
responsibilities at HA have
prevented him from devoting a
lot of time to it. Still, he
told CNN he doesn't expect to
sell his unique piece of
internet history. |
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.Com
has come a long way
in the last 30 years. You
could originally register
.com domains free of
charge. Today it is
not uncommon for top
domains in the extension
to sell for hundreds of
thousands or even millions
of dollars. Unfortunately,
those increased values
have caught the attention
of criminals who attempt
to hijack domains or the
valuable traffic that goes
to ones that have been
developed into popular
business websites. The Wall
Street Journal ran
a very informative piece
by Ruth Simon on
that issue this past week
titled Cybercriminals
Are Misappropriating
Businesses’ Web
Addresses.
I
was among those
interviewed for the
article, as were Internet
Commerce Association
Legal Counsel Phil
Corwin, domain
attorneys Stevan
Lieberman, Enrico
Schaefer and David
Weslow, and ICANN's
Gwen Carlson. This is
a piece you need to read
to see some of the latest
tactics being used by
cyber-thieves and what you
can do to protect
yourself. |
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Legal Counsel Phil Corwin
and several other domain
industry figures were
interviewed for a new Wall
Street Journal
story on theft of traffic
to popular domains. |
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March 15, 2015) To
refer others to the
post above only you
can use this URL:
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