It was a pretty busy week for us at TheDomains.com.
Our stories on the registration of domain names here and here, was picked up by news outlets all around the world and was the basis for a bulletin put out by the Department of Homeland Security.
The bulletin was issued one day after our initial posts on domain registrations involving the tragic events in Boston by The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center a division of Homeland Security and alerted the public to Twitter handles and domain names:
“”Individuals wasted no time registering domain names related to yesterday’ explosions at the Boston Marathon.
Some of the domains are likely to take advantage of those interested in learning more details about the explosions. Others will likely target individuals looking to contribute to fundraising efforts. It is unclear what each registrants intent may be, but historically scammers, spammers and other malicious actors capitalize on major news events by registering such domains.””
The bulletin then used the list of 125 domain name we prepared and credited TheDomains.com with the preparation of the list.
great job guys! I always get my dn news here.
I wonder if the United States Department of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau will be issuing a similar statement asking consumers to be aware aware of Internet Domain Registries and Registrars selling you useless garbage driven by your emotions.
It will be nice when New gTLDs arrive, like .Charity or .Give which will be more supervised spaces with stricter registration,whois, and use requirements so that consumers will know they can trust them better.
Anybody can be a .com, including the bad guys.
Well done, Michael. Also the Blog/Article about all the domain regs after the Texas Explosion. It seems Misery Profiteers love .com(pany)
All those who reg those Boston domains are pigeon shit now and which lawyer is going to defend that lunatic kid?
The Homeland security has put a flag on those who reg those domains!!
Oh wait, he is going to plea insanity.
Remember, life is too unpredictable no matter where you are at, and when you think you feel secure in the environment, it is when S*hit happens.
The law of the Sh*it unknown.
Good story
Or at least, defend the suspect’s legal rights. Meantime, time will tell how things go.
Good job on the lists, MHB. Might mean more exposure for your blog and so. 🙂
Congrats! Excellent research – I don’t know how you did it! Without passing judgement pro or con the names, I thought it made great news. It was newsworthy. Keep the insights coming!
I get so confused – but apparent interrogation without legal representation is OK – if it affects public safety – I mean this is like waterboarding – and with the EXACT same groups of terrorists apparently – but that was not OK and got a guy that has never worked in the private sector elected.
I am just trying to get a good grip on the horseshit coming out of Washington 🙂
Hello MHB,
After all the temporary news Flash bites dissapear, what are we all left with?
Probably a world of mistrust. What on the internet do people still trust?
They know trustworthy .COM companies they have trusted in the past, Their banks end in .COM, eBay.com Yahoo.com, Google.com, IBM.com , USPS.com .
Along comes .Whatever.coms, wait does this raises a flag? Do you really think Michael they will trust this new stray cat at the door?
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff,
you realize most the scam sites on that list are .COM right?
are you really this insane or are you just playing a character?
He won’t get Mirandized at all. Watch and see.
He’ll either be considered and “enemy combatant” or he will mysteriously die in custody.
Hello MHB,
Those in severe denial of whats really trusted online, and not their minds fabrications, will realize consumers have more trust of .COM sites, the revenue #s prove it.
ontheinterweb, you will find your fabrications highly injurious to End-Users, your carma will catch up Sir.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Breaking news
His lawyers going to claim that he has PTSD from his childhood days in his war torn country, or abuse from dysfunctional mom/dad, sexual mental abuse or some sort of mental illness.
He is going to walk free- all thanks to our taxpayers’ monies
Well, the talk of gun control is going to go on again, where the hell did they get those high powered guns?
@ Bulls
We live in a Military Industrial Complex where its more profitable to kill brothers and sisters, than to love them and care for them.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff- you are so correct.
Cars,GUNS, money and Blondes are what driving the economy of this county.
So NewTLD –
You say – “it will be nice when New gTLDs arrive, like .Charity or .Give …
Anybody can be a .com, including the bad guys.
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How about – Anybody can be anybody they want – even “NewgTLDsite” 🙂
Should I tell my friend – who has a real name – not “NewgTLDsite” – to throw in the towel on Charity.com ?
I agree with Cartoonz
“”He won’t get Mirandized at all. Watch and see.
He’ll be considered and “enemy combatant”
Might get a vacation to gitmo
Dave
We had as much exposure as any blog on a focus particular industry could get,
NBC News, CBS news, The Huntington Post, MSNBC, the New York Daily News, the Washington Post, Time.com, Cnet.com, The Examiner, InformationWeek.com, TheVerge, BusinessInsider, NetworkWorld.com, Australia, and SfGate.com, Consumerist.com, Siliconangle.com, Globalnews.ca, Seattlepi.com, Presse-citron.net (French) to name a few
One on air NBC news broadcast mentioned TheDomains as well.,
My understanding is that water boarding is now longer OK, Obama ended the practice.
Now they just ask nicely, of course the talked to the older brother back in 2011 and let him go on with his life
Whoever bought up Boston Domains to profit from should be publically shamed, drawn and quartered.
However, as to the Texas explosion domains, SOME of those registrations MAY be legitimate because there may be legal culpability on the part of the plant owners.
The morning after the explosion, our agency fielded several calls the from law firms wanting help with regs, web dev, seo and digital marketing to funnel the injured victim to them.
TexasPlantExplosion.com is one example. (we did not put up this site)
Right or wrong, that kind of marketing leaves a very icky residue on my morality, we respectfully declined ALL requests, but that doesnt mean they are COMPLETELY immoral like the Boston regs.
Jay
With the Texas explosion there were a lot of domain name registered by attorney’s trying to reach out to the victims which we think is fair use, so we think its important to look at the domains registered rather than just the number of domains with say the word “boston” in it.
Even in the case of “boston” domain a lot of positive domains were registered days after bombing, those who are just looking at number of registrations rather than the actual domain names is doing barking up the wrong tree.
So you compile a list that is published without any checking of whether the domains are legitimate or not. Just copied verbatim and this is a victory?
When a lawyer sends a list to registrars in the “in stealth mode” case you rambled on about breach of your rights and the totally disregard for your rights?
Say whaaa?
Enemy combatant and US Citizen are mutually exclusive.
The miranda rights are more court procedure than anything. Not having his rights read to him will actually render what he says mostly inadmissible (or can be argues as tainted evidence) in court. it’s usually a risk on the prosecution – they would only do that if there was imminent danger and/or the case was air tight.