According to the Philadelphia ABC affiliate's site, law enforcement returned to National A! headquarters on Thursday "as part of an ongoing investigation by authorities "that began with a state police probe of an escort service there and alledged prostitution". "A raid that started yesterday morning went into the night. Federal agents from the FBI, IRS and U.S. Attorney's Office loaded … [Read more...]
Comment Wars
A few days ago I wrote a post about a Congressman who visited the TRAFFIC show as well as a candidate for Congress which spoke to TRAFFIC attendees. Along the way the comments on the post got away from the subject of the post and got into personal issues between people in the domain industry. I have now moved all of the comments from that post which were off topic to this post as they … [Read more...]
AVN: National A-1 Update: Escorts.com, Not HotMovies.com Maybe The Issue
AVN.com Has just updated its story on the raid on National A-1 this morning. According to the updated story, the Local CBS affiliate is reporting, that the raid was related to a prostitution ring investigation." and according to the new report it could be the National A-1 owned site Escorts.com, that could be the issue rather than HotMovies.com AVN quoted a special agent of the FBI, … [Read more...]
Sex.com Sale Hits Road Block As A Creditor Objects To The Sale
According to XBizNewswire.com, the sale of Sex.com to Clover Holdings has hit a roadblock, as one of it’s creditors filed a motion in court today opposing part of the sale agreement. Last week we reported that the domain name Sex.com sold for $13 Million dollars pending court approval. The court hearing on the motion to sell the domain was to be held today. However according to the … [Read more...]
How Is Your Blog Doing? TechCrunch Sells For $25 Million
According to several reports the blog TechCrunch has sold to AOL for "only" $25 Million. TechCrunch has become a go to source for ground breaking internet news, and we hope that continues somehow despite the apparent sale to a huge mainstream media company. … [Read more...]
WSJ says Godaddy is up for Sale for $1 Billion Dollars; Seems like they left off a zero
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that GoDaddy.com, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion according to the journal Qatalyst Partners has been hired to shop The Go Daddy Group. Private-equity firms are expected to bid for the company, which currently has more than 43 million domains under management. If anything $1 Billion seems a low figure for a … [Read more...]
McAfee Tells People To Stop Clicking & Start Direct Nagivating: Will This Increase Type In Traffic
In a report is published by McAfee, they urge internet users in the wake of phishing and malicious email to forgo clicking on links and start to type in the address they want to go into their browser. The question is will this notice by Mcafee if it catches on get surfers back into the habit of direct navigation? Here is the full report: ""You Name It–Spammers Have Faked It Name any … [Read more...]