Not much info regarding the buyer since there is a privacy protection in place.

More information at ccTLD.

dot XXX

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The issue with the trojan that it is located in the recovery image file. Tobe more precise it is in located in the Plants vs Zombies game.

I have the feeling that the trojan has been dorment since i bought the laptop since alot of times it was very sluggish. 

Since 18-01-2012 Microsoft Security Essentials released a new viri definition and with a full scan the Win32 Anomaly.gen! trojan shows up.

Since the HP recovery image file is over 19 gigabytes every viri scanner that i tried will choke on it.

So getting ridd of the Win32 Anomaly.gen! trojan was a no go till i figured i should format the D partition that contained the Win32 Anomaly.gen! trojan.

If you have not made these disks i suggest you do so. Goto start, programs, HP and create the recovery DVD’s (you need 5 blank DVD’s).

Once i created them i formatted the D partition and ran a full scan and behold it worked.

For a second opinion try Hitmanpro.

Since i now had 19 GB of free space i decided to install Linux Unbuntu. When i bought the HP DV6 it failed but the latest version of Unbuntu works like a charm. If you never messed with Unbuntu then i recommend installing Unbuntu with the Wubi installer.

This is a smal program that you install using windows. It’s almost fully automated and if it doesn’t workout then you just uninstall it under windows !

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer

This is the easiest way ever to install Linux Unbuntu. So i am now running Win 7 and Linux on my HP laptop and it feels faster then ever

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Square Enix registers 774DEATHS. COM domain names, new game in the works ? domain name still not resolving. 

Sony to produce a bunch of sequels based on The Raid movies ? Domain name registrations suggest so. Looks like a whole bunch of sequels and doesn’t look bad at all

Facebook registers energy domain names, facebook gives you energy

Google acquires NextNewMusic.com domain name and infinitepowerup.com, i wonder how next new music sounds like!

ICANN Reaffirms Commitment to Second Round in New gTLD Program, yes we CAN, cept not till 2015 though.

Amsterdam wishes to apply for the TLD DOT Amsterdam , should have gone for .XXX but ohwell.

Nother gTLD bites the dust. DOT FRL been cancelled. No FRL for joo !

Nominet recommendations regarding expired *.uk domain names. Dropcatching nasty ! More registrant protection !

Indonesian Government Blocks 1 Million Porn Websites, i wonder how many .XXX domain names got blocked.

From ICANN with love : Letter from Rod Beckstrom to the U.S. Senate, a new sherrif in town.

Afnic to launch IDN .FR domain names on may 3, IDN is le future!

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Read the rest here : http://cctld.dk/threads/will-com-domain-name-registrations-be-harder-and-more-expensive-in-the-future.10520/

The above link deals more specific about the issues indepth regarding the registrar obligations like :

Registrars and all associated third-party beneficiaries to Registrars are required to collect and securely maintain the following data:
(i) Source IP address;
(ii) HTTP Request Headers
(a) From
(b) Accept
(c) Accept?Encoding
(d) Accept?Language
(e) User?Agent
(f) Referrer
(g) Authorization
(h) Charge?To
(i) If?Modified?Since
(iii) Collect and store the following data from registrants:
(a) First Name:
(b) Last Name:
(c) E?mail Address:
(d) Alternate E?mail address
(e) Company Name:
(f) Position:
(g) Address 1:
(h) Address 2:
(i) City:
(j) Country:
(k) State:
(l) Enter State:
(m) Zip:
(n) Phone Number:
(o) Additional Phone:
(p) Fax:
(q) Alternative Contact First Name:
(r) Alternative Contact Last Name:
(s) Alternative Contact E?mail:
(t) Alternative Contact Phone:
(iv) Collect data on all additional add?on services purchased during the registration process.
(v) All financial transactions, including, but not limited to credit card, payment information.
Each registrar is required to validate the following data upon receipt from a registrant:
(1) Technical Data
(a) IP addresses used to register domain names.
(b) E?mail Address
(i) Verify that registration e?mail address(es) are valid.
(2) Billing Data
(a) Validate billing data based on the payment card industry (PCI standards), at a minimum, the latest version of the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS).
(3) Contact Data
(a) Validate data is being provided by a human by using some anti?automatic form submission technology (such as dynamic imaging) to ensure registrations are done by humans.
(b) Validate current address WHOIS data and correlate with in?house fraudulent data for domain contact information and registrant’s IP address.
(4) Phone Numbers
(i) Confirm that point of contact phone numbers are valid using an automated system.
(ii) Cross validate the phone number area code with the provided address and credit card billing address

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refreshment.com

The website allows you to scratch and record your own tunes like a virtual DJ.

It’s atually pretty nifty to play around with.

Fully story and pictures at Rogue Domaining.

I thougt i made a screenshot just incase Coca Cola wasn’t ready to launch this website to the public just yet. You never know if they pull the plug so it is handy to have a screenshot. Even if Coca Cola would use a Privacy protect  handle to cover it up, there is always Domain Tools wich allows you to look up WHOIS history records.

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The press service of the registrar announced this to Ukrainian News.

“Given the specific nature of operation of the DNS system, the domain will be available within 1-24 hours,” the company said.

The registrar unblocked the website’s domain name after checking the notification it received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The press service stressed that the availability of the domain name does not mean resumption of the operations of the file-sharing website.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the investigation department of Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district administration withdrew a submission made to the Internet Invest company on February 2, and requested cancellation of the decision to block the ex.ua file-sharing website’s domain name.

The Interior Affairs Ministry shut down the ex.ua file-sharing website on January 31 as part of a criminal investigation into copyright violations.

Later in the evening on January 31, there were problems accessing the website of the Interior Affairs Ministry, which the ministry blamed on a hacker attack.

Later, there were problems accessing the websites of several government agencies, including the websites of the President of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine, and the Party of the Regions.

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Intel’s Virtual Booth Explorer was created as a way for demo teams within Intel to extend the reach and life of the demos that they create. So much time and effort goes into creating a demonstration for a show, that it only makes sense to try to capture that demo and make it available to others that could not attend the show. 

Now it looks like Intel acquired the domain names test virtualshowfloor.com  and virtualshowfloor.com. I say it looks since the domain names are still with Moniker and the original registrant is still showing up in the WHOIS.

And the current registrant looks like a domainer. Fact is that TestVirtualShowFloor is a fully operational website wich you can visit here : http://testvirtualshowfloor.com.

I guess the registrant will soon change to Intel.

Have fun with the demo

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ICANN is currently locked in contract talks with its accredited domain name registrars, and expects they will agree to make the verification of customer identities mandatory later this year.

If the rule changes go ahead, registrars such as Go Daddy and Network Solutions could be obliged to ensure that the Whois database records submitted by their customers are accurate.

Such a policy would very likely increase the price of .com domain names, due to the registrars’ added cost of paying for commercial verification services. While encouraged by law enforcement and intellectual property concerns, which regularly and loudly complain about the difficulty of tracking down crooks online, the proposed rule change has been criticised by privacy advocates.

Today, Whois databases contain the contact information – including name, physical address and phone number – of people who register domain names. Most top-level domains have such a database.

But while registrars are obliged to remind customers annually about Whois accuracy, and can take down domains if they receive complaints, they don’t have to proactively check that Whois records are accurate.

This means that nervous domain buyers can either pay an extra fee for a privacy-protection service, or pretend to be Mr Nobody from Nowheresville, Nowhere, giving a phone number of 555-555-5555.

But this could change under amendments to the ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) currently under negotiation in closed-door talks between ICANN and registrars. On three occasions over the last few weeks, senior ICANN executives have notified the US administration and Congress that they expect a revised RAA to crack down on phoney Whois.

“ICANN expects that the RAA will incorporate – for the first time – Registrar commitments to verify WHOIS data,” CEO Rod Beckstrom told the US Department of Commerce earlier this month.

His words were echoed in two letters to concerned congressmen by senior vice president Kurt Pritz last week, following on from Congressional hearings held in December. Beckstrom indicated that the new RAA will be drafted before March, and that registrars with years left on their current contracts – the majority – will be offered incentives to switch to the new version before 2013. The RAA applies to the 21 generic top-level domains – such as .com, .org, .biz and .xxx – and the hundreds of new gTLDs ICANN intends to start approving next year, rather than country-codes such as .uk and .fr. In the UK, individuals are allowed to privacy-protect their .uk Whois records.

The changes would not affect registrars’ ability to offer Whois privacy services for an additional fee, though other amendments could formalise the process of unmasking such registrants accused of criminal behaviour or cybersquatting. And it’s not certain yet that Whois verification will become mandatory. Registrars generally oppose such moves, largely due to the complexity and because the cost of commercial identity database services could double the price of domain names in some cases.

Members of ICANN’s Non-Commercial Users Constituency also oppose Whois verification on privacy grounds, fearing abuse by over-zealous cops and copyright interests. But there’s a significant amount of political pressure to make the changes.

Whois verification was part of a package of a dozen measures first proposed by law enforcement agencies in 2009, but it was not until ICANN’s public meeting in Senegal last October – when registrars got a good kicking from governments including the US and UK – that talks to amend the RAA began in earnest.

Some registrars, speaking privately to El Reg, are concerned that their industry could be in for a rematch when ICANN convenes its next public meeting in Costa Rica this March.

Now that ICANN has told the US that Whois verification is “expected”, if the provision does not make an appearance in the redrafted RAA then ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, backed by national law enforcement agencies, will likely claim that the industry is incapable of self-regulation. While the RAA amendments are a separate policy issue to ICANN’s recently launch new generic top-level domains programme, interest from Congress has tied the two problems together. If ICANN cannot secure the RAA amendments governments are demanding, it will likely face further criticism that its new gTLDs will be a haven for fraud. ®

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A whole bunch of domain name registrations by several different companies. 

Sometimes i ramble and sometimes i sell domain names with a ramble.

SIDN the dutch registry for the ccTLD .NL is just growing more and more. Read the story at ccTLD.

Nominet is seeking members and i was in a silly mood.

3M going to open restaurants ? Perhaps.

Switch the ccTLD operator is fighting Malware.

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The new Top-Level Domain program was given the go-ahead in Singapore on 20 June 2011 by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the global governing body for internet addresses. The monumental shake-up will see domain names move beyond the increasingly saturated .com space to a large number of generic domains. ICANN’s application window for new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) will close on 12 April 2012.

The new gTLD program will allow for new Internet extensions similar to .com, .biz and .info to be applied for and introduced, with interest currently being shown for extensions representing brands (for example .canon), generic words (.shop or .web) and geographic locations (.paris).  As part of the gTLD application process, applicants must demonstrate how they will satisfy many different ICANN accreditation criteria.  One critical requirement is to establish daily transfers of domain registration data to a reputable escrow agent such as NCC Group.  Data escrow is one of the five critical functions of running a registry and is necessary to ensure continuity of registry operations in the event of a physical, technical, or business failure.

Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry Services, said: “The data escrow requirement for new gTLDs from ICANN means that new gTLD applicants have to find a provider with quality and reliability. That is why we are delighted to work with the world’s largest IT assurance and data escrow company. We are confident in NCC Group’s capabilities and that their approach mirrors ours.”

Tom Scopazzi, Registry Services Manager at NCC Group, added:  “ARI Registry Services’ registry platform is fast and flexible and works with many business models while maintaining high reliability. We look forward to working with ARI Registry Services to help new gTLD applicants with the technical implementation of their new Top-Level Domains.”

NCC Group has been active in the domain name community since 2007 when it assisted ICANN with the development of the gTLD Registry Failover Plan. Since then, NCC Group has been the preferred escrow provider for a number of registries and registrars worldwide, and is proud to be the only escrow provider with major operations in Europe and North America. NCC Group’s offering is compliant with both US and EU law, and is designed to meet the needs of all registry operators worldwide.

About ARI Registry Services

ARI Registry Services (formerly AusRegistry International) is one of the top companies globally with the technology and expertise to activate, implement and manage new Top-Level Domains. Leveraging ten years of experience as a TLD registry operator, ARI Registry Services will provide new Top-Level Domain applicants with the same software and consulting services that currently drive the .au (Australia), the .ae (United Arab Emirates), the .qa (Qatar) and .om (Oman) country codes. Additionally, ARI Registry Services is the first TLD registry to operate non-Latin, country code Top-Level Domains and a global leader in the continued innovation and expansion of the Domain Name System.

Visit www.ariservices.com or find out more about the new Top-Level Domain program here: www.beyonddotcom.info

About NCC GROUP

NCC Group (LSE: NCC.L) NCC Group provides 45,000 organizations worldwide with IT assurance through escrow, verification, security software testing, audit and website performance solutions.  NCC Group is the only data escrow provider able to draw on this market-leading technical expertise and ensure that your Registry Data Escrow is stored under the highest levels of security at all times.

Through these services NCC Group gives customers the confidence that their business critical information, systems, networks, websites software are protected, secure, compliant and effective.

http://www.nccgroup.us/solutions/escrow/registry-data-escrow.aspx

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