Posts tagged business
Celebrities block their .XXX domain names
Many celebrities contacted the ICM Registry to block their .XXX domain names.
Celebrities like Justin Bieber decided to have his domain name permanently banned from the .XXX list. By doing this, celebrities want to make sure no cybersquatter will be able to register domain names like JustinBieber.xxx or BritneySpears.xxx.
.APP gTLD Project Launches & Is Pre-Selling Domains To Fund The Application Fee
A new group of App developers have stepped up and announced plans to apply for the .APP new gTLD and is going about raising the money for the application in a very unusual manner.
GoDaddy SSL Certificates and Nginx
Last week we installed and configured SSL support on our RoboDomain server. We purchased the certificate using GoDaddy. When you download the certificate from GoDaddy, the package contains your regular .crt but also a gd_bundle.crt file.
That confused me a bit. I was expecting just a single certificate file.
When you download your certificate, GoDaddy prompts you a select with several different options and instructions. The instructions tell you how to install the certificate on several different environments, but unfortunately Nginx is not included in the list.
I read the documentation about Apache and I noticed Nginx HttpSslModule has no SSLCertificateChainFile equivalent. Actually, it turns out you just need to append the content of gd_bundle.crt to the end of your certificate.
$ cp example.com.crt example.com.bundle.crt $ cat gd_bundle.crt >> example.com.bundle.crt
Then, configure Nginx as explained in the HttpSslModule documentation.
ssl on; ssl_certificate /patch/to/ssl/example.com.bundle.crt; ssl_certificate_key /patch/to/ssl/example.com.key;
New site and public beta
It’s with a ton of excitement and a bit of healthy nervousness that we’re announcing the launch of the new RoboDomain website.
This is a really important step for us, a milestone we’ve been working very hard for the last two months. It’s not a secret that we probably underestimate the task, since we originally planned to complete the entire activity in less than a month.
Unfortunately, quality requires time. It took many steps and several weeks before even starting writing the first line of code.
It’s with a mixed emotion we say goodbye to the old homepage that served as placeholder for over than 10 months.
We think that the new website better communicates the benefits of using RoboDomain to keep track of your domains.
We also wanted to keep you informed about RoboDomain features. Sometimes, playing with a brand new account doesn’t really give you the idea of what RoboDomain is able to do. This is for example the case of the RoboDomain Transaction feature, one of the most powerful but yet underestimated features.
And if you are looking for more details to understand RoboDomain, we created a really nice page to explain how RoboDomain works.
Public Beta
As of today we’re also reaching an other important milestone: the first Public Beta release.
In practice, this fancy name is a way to indicate that you no longer need an invitation to join RoboDomain. Simply go to the sign up page and create your account.
Best of all, you can use RoboDomain for free during the beta period. After the beta period is over and the first version is released, we will send an email notification and you’ll be able to upgrade to one of the available paid plans or downgrade to the always-free limited edition.
What’s next?
You might be surprised to know that even if we’ve been very busy working on the new site, we also had the time to work on some exciting improvements for the site, the blog and the product.
More news coming in the next days.
In the meantime, you can discuss the changes or suggest new features in our support forums.
Changes to the .hu ccTLD WHOIS response
Last week the Nic.hu, the Hungarian domain authority, silently released an update to their Whois server interface which affected all the .hu domain queries.
All the domain information has been wiped out from new Whois response, including details about domain creation and expiration. This is how the server responds to a google.hu query as of June 1, 2010:
% Whois server 2.02a serving the hu ccTLD domain: google.hu További adatokért ld.: http://www.domain.hu/domain/domainsearch/ For further data see: http://www.domain.hu/domain/English/domainsearch/
Compared to the previous version, this is a massive cut.
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2 years ago, the first commit. Today is the second RoboDomain first-commit anniversary, the first since RoboDomain is publicly available.
This isn’t the real RoboDomain birthday, thought. RoboDomain was officially launched on December 15, 2009. Two years ago, I decided it was the time to stop using spreadsheets to manage my domains and start developing something more efficient.
Happy 25th Birthday .com
25 years ago, the 15th March 1985, the first .com domain was registered: symbolics.com. The same year, five other companies signed up for a .com domain name: BBN.com, Think.com, MCC.com and DEC.com.
.com Today
Today, .com is an integral part of a technology boom that reshaped the way people work, live, play and connect with family and friends. Much to the amazement of its creators. “I don’t recall anybody ever thinking we were creating an organizational structure to encompass hundreds of millions of entities covering the entire planet in support of all human activities,” said David H. Crocker, who wrote the RFC 733-the first standard for Internet email. “And it certainly wasn’t supposed to last for 30+ years, even as an experiment. It just happened to turn out that way.”
New Twitter account and mascot
RoboDomain now has its own twitter account. Follow @robodomain for the latest news and updates.
For the occasion, we also decided to reveal, for the very first time, our official mascot.
DomainingTips.com opens DomainDiscussions.com forum
DomainingTips.com has launched a new domaining forum at DomainDiscussions.com.
