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Go Daddy domain name and web hosting company confirmed a strategic partnership with venture capital firms KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures.

Founder and CEO of the domain firm Bob Parsons stated that the investors were selected because of their technology expertise and understanding of online businesses.

“We believe, together, we will take the company to the next level, especially when it comes to accelerating international growth," he said in a boilerplate statement on Go Daddy's website.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted overwhelmingly for the proposal to allow the introduction of new website domain suffixes by private companies, enabling major firms to replace ".com" with their own brand. The voting took place at a meeting in Singapore.

"This is the biggest change to domain names since the creation of '.com' 26 years ago," said Theo Hnarakis, chief executive of Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services, a California-based company that provides online branding services.

Mozilla refused the request of US regulators to ban a Firefox add-on that allows users to access sites which have domain names confiscated earlier this year.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security that in February took the unprecedented step of seizing domain names accused of streaming live pay-per-view sporting events, requested the open source company to ban MafiaaFire add-on.

Like it or not but a new .xxx top level domain name for porn industry is coming this year. Last week the Board of Directors of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved entering into a contract with ICM Registry to operate a .xxx top level domain name (TLD).

First domain names with the new TLD are planned to start later this year and the price will range from $75 to $100 each.

Hacked government and defense domains are being sold by cyber crooks at relatively acceptable prices. .gov, .mil and .edu domains in the United States and Europe can be sold to interested parties for a price between $55 and $499 each. Besides, the hacker also sells admin login credentials to hacked sites and looted personal data from compromised sites.

IID (Internet Identity), a provider of technology and services that help organizations secure Internet presence, announced in its “Q3 State of DNS Report” that it has identified major online security holes for U.S. government organizations. The report states that major part of Federal agency run .gov domains are not signing their DNS (Domain Name System) with DNSSEC (Domain Name Security Extensions) despite a December 2009 Federal deadline for adoption. DNSSEC is designed to ensure DNS entries

On Friday the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, is expected to grant its approval to the creation of dot-xxx suffix for websites with explicit pornographic content. It is known that for some time the corporation has resisted the creation of .xxx generic domain names system that is similar to those of dot-com and dot-net.

This week Symantec and VeriSign confirmed the rumors that Symantec will acquire VeriSign’s security business. The acquisition is estimated at US$1.28 billion. The deal will allow VeriSign to focus on its more-profitable domain name business while Symantec will be able to broaden its growing portfolio of enterprise security products.

This week Egypt’s Communications Ministry announced the launch of the first domain name using Arabic characters. The ministry reports that the move was meant to boost electronic services and the number of people surfing online in the Arab region.

"Introducing Arabic domain names is a milestone in Internet history," Communications Minister Tarek Kamel said in a statement.

A recent report revealed that 77% of Internet domains, which is about 90 million Internet addresses, are registered with false, incomplete, or unverifiable information.

ICANN conducted an extensive review of 1,419 representative domain names including direct contact with over 500 individual domain owners. The review shows that only 23% of domain registrations display the owner's correct name and physical address.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan brought his decision in favor of the Bank of America Corp who sued a self-described cybersquatter for using the "bofaml.com" and "mlbofa.com" Internet domain names following the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.

The judge found that J. Taikwok Yung used his business Webadviso to register the names in bad faith, hoping to sell them back to the largest U.S. bank and cash in on publicity from the merger.

Are you thinking of opening and running a hyip? Here are five essential steps in creating your own hyip:

1. In order to create a hyip, the first thing you must get is a domain name which represents a name for your business online. It is an internet address and begins with www. and ends with .com, .net, .org, and so forth where internet surfers can find your hyip website.

 According to the latest report of McAfee Cameroon (.cm) web domains were found to be the largest suppliers of malware having replaced Hong Kong. According to the research over 36.7% of domains registered in the West African country hosted viruses or malicious code.

McAfee explains the trend as a result of a misspelling. The security research group says that the .cm used by Cameroon is a common typo for .com and this fact was exploited by cybercriminals to set up fake typo-squatting sites that lead to malicious downloads or spyware under the country's domain.

 According to the Russian media sources over half of the applications submitted for the registration of domain names in the Cyrillic .РФ zone have been written with mistakes and thus declined.