According to Wired.com, online retailer Overstock.com got hit with a $6.42 million dollar fine levied by a state California court finding that "Overstock’s price comparison techniques violate the state’s unfair competition and false advertising laws. " When comparing its prices on products "to those listed by competitors, the judge found, the company is overstating the differences and … [Read more...]
Stat Porn
Domainers like stats and here are some of an adult nature but also may help with domains, ppc campaigns and running your adult website. PornHub.com took a look back at 2013 and while we are not going to get into the more risque stats, there were some that dealt with the numbers behind porn, the shift from the desktop to mobile and the most and least popular days. The numbers are pretty big … [Read more...]
PC World: “Typos online aren’t just a hassle, they’re a hazard”
PC World did a story today on typos, they went on to look at the problems that typos cause as they are still being used by scammers and other shady online websites. They looked at at data from High Tech Bridge and how many typo domains were registered by people trying to pass themselves off as Anti Virus companies. Interestingly 107 domains were regged by the firms themselves to protect against … [Read more...]
The Ship is on the Move Again, The Pirate Bay leaves Peru and docks in Guyana
We reported on December 12th that The Pirate Bay had moved to the country code of Peru (pe). Well now they have moved to the country code of Guyana (gy). Digital Trends and Torrent Freak covered the change. Here’s what a Pirate Bay insider had to say about the matter when speaking with TorrentFreak. “We have some 70 domain names left, so eventually we will find one that sticks. A few domains … [Read more...]
Cisco Acquires Collaborate.com
Cisco’s just announced on its company blog that it has acquired Collaborate.com "to help capture this market transition in mobility and cloud". The domain name was owned by Collaborative Strategies of San Francisco earlier this year and the site just launched in June when it went under privacy. Terms were not announced. Here is the rest of the blog post: As the rapidly developing … [Read more...]
German Court Orders Release Of 20,000 Names Of Online Porn-Watchers
A German court has released the names and addresses of about 20,000 people whose IP addresses were detected on porn website Redtube in a copyright infringement case, NBC News reports. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/german-court-porn-release-2013-12#ixzz2nZMOQOMm TechDirt also covered the story: First and foremost: how did U+C acquire the names and addresses of those who had … [Read more...]
The Pirate Bay is Sailing Toward A World Where The Domain Name is irrelevant
The Pirate Bay has had to sail the high seas of the DNS many times throughout its existence. Recently the site has moved from .SX (Sint Maarten) to the .pe extension (Peru). The Pirate Bay has told TorrentFreak.com that they will soon no longer have the need for a domain name and thus make the confiscating or blocking of a domain completely futile. From the article: Currently under … [Read more...]