DnTrade.com.au and a few others have been buzzing about Bitcoin.com.au being auctioned off on Netfleet. Cazalla at Qntra.net wrote the best explanation of what happened, this was the second time Bitcoin.com.au sold this year. Apparently it is a popular tactic to report domains with bad info in Australia, the author explains, "Australian domainers employ in order to secure premium domains is … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Symantec Discovers “Regin” A Sophisticated Piece of Malware
Symantec has discovered a piece of malware that has been used to spy on ISP's and telecom companies that they say was most likely by a government agency. They did not say which government. The malware looks to have been created back in 2008, paused and then started back up. Recode wrote about the news: Computer security researchers at Symantec say they have discovered a sophisticated piece of … [Read more...]
UDRP Panel Throws Case Out But Doesn’t Find RDNH On Domain Registered 9 Years Before TM
Jobetty LLC, dba Mudpuppy’s Tub & Scrub lost its attempt to grab the domain name mudpuppies.com The three member panel of Nathalie Dreyfus, Sandra J. Franklin and Diane Thilly Cabell basically threw the case out finding the Complainant's trademark was filed some 9 years after the domain name was registered. However on the issue of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking the panel … [Read more...]
Godaddy Is Back In The Super Bowl …..With A Puppy
GoDaddy announced today that it will be back advertising for its eleventh consecutive Super Bowl, in the 2015 Super Bowl with a thirty-second spot encouraging business owners to put their businesses online with a domain name and website. "For the first-time ever, GoDaddy will cast an adorable puppy to make its point about empowering business owners to succeed online, but don't expect this to be … [Read more...]
Looks Like Craigslist Got Hacked
In trying to get to Craigslist it looks like the site was hacked by Digital Gangster. A You Tuber put up a video showing what happened. I am now getting just a timeout when I check on my laptop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8vEGGnwzow … [Read more...]
A Survivor of The Dot Com Bubble – Cufflinks.com
Maria Halkias of DallasNews.com wrote a piece on a survivor of the .com bubble of the late nineties. Cufflinks.com. Halkias did a good job conveying where the company is now and how it got there from those crazy bubble days of 1999 - 2000. From the article: Cufflinks.com was founded in 1999 during the dot-com bubble, when lots of startups were created based on the business model of a category … [Read more...]
Nearly 60% Domains in China Hijacked in 2014 Ended in .Com
WantChinaTimes.com published an article about the number of .Com domains that have been hijacked in China in 2014. The number is pretty big if the report is accurate, close to 60 %. The report claims close to half are controlled by overseas IP's. From the article: Nearly 60% of domain names in China that were hijacked by backdoor programs in the first half of 2014 ended in ".com" and 48.8% of … [Read more...]