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Elliot's Blog
Website Badges Are Helpful
Rick Schwartz announced that he had website badge graphics made for TRAFFIC Award winners, and based on my personal experience, I think it’s a smart idea that you can replicate if you operate a website. Naturally, when someone sees a badge, the...
Discussion
Website Badges Are Helpful
Rick Schwartz announced that he had website badge graphics made for TRAFFIC Award winners, and based on my personal experience, I think it’s a smart idea that you can replicate if you operate a website. Naturally, when someone sees a badge, the...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 1:44 pm
The Domains
So Godaddy.com Wasn’t Attacked But Why Did They Wait Almost 24 Hours Before Letting Anyone Know?
Godaddy.com announced a short time ago they were not attacked or hacked yesterday but had internal issues which caused widespread outage to millions of customer’s sites, domain names and email accounts. According to the statement, all services ...
Discussion
So Godaddy.com Wasn’t Attacked But Why Did They Wait Almost 24 Hours Before Letting Anyone Know?
Godaddy.com announced a short time ago they were not attacked or hacked yesterday but had internal issues which caused widespread outage to millions of customer’s sites, domain names and email accounts. According to the statement, all services ...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 12:22 pm
The Domains
DomainHoldings.com Is Hiring Domain Brokers
Domainholdings.com announced on its blog today that they are hiring. With unemployment especially those long term unemployed or underemployed its great to see a company in the domain industry still adding staff. Good luck to all who apply. Here is th...
Discussion
DomainHoldings.com Is Hiring Domain Brokers
Domainholdings.com announced on its blog today that they are hiring. With unemployment especially those long term unemployed or underemployed its great to see a company in the domain industry still adding staff. Good luck to all who apply. Here is th...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 11:46 am
Domain Name Wire
Like I was saying… Go Daddy wasn’t hacked or attacked
Guy on twitter says he took Go Daddy down. Press bites. Yesterday dozens (hundreds?) of “respectable” publications reported that Go Daddy was hacked, and that it was done by a hacker who was part of anonymous. This morning I tweeted: &ldq...
Discussion
Like I was saying… Go Daddy wasn’t hacked or attacked
Guy on twitter says he took Go Daddy down. Press bites. Yesterday dozens (hundreds?) of “respectable” publications reported that Go Daddy was hacked, and that it was done by a hacker who was part of anonymous. This morning I tweeted: &ldq...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 11:44 am
Domain Name Wire
Have ccTLD questions? Just ask Alex
Get answers to your toughest country code domain questions. Some country code domain names are fairly easy to register. Most of them aren’t. Frankly, figuring out how to register some of the more obscure ccTLDs could take a Ph.D. But now there&...
Discussion
Have ccTLD questions? Just ask Alex
Get answers to your toughest country code domain questions. Some country code domain names are fairly easy to register. Most of them aren’t. Frankly, figuring out how to register some of the more obscure ccTLDs could take a Ph.D. But now there&...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 10:38 am
The Domains
Hacker Who Allegedly Took Godaddy.com Down Yesterday Says He Can Take Google Down Too
According to a Tweet by @AnonymousOwn3r the person (group) who took claimed responsibility for the DNS attack and take down of Godaddy.com and millions of client sites, said today that he has already taken down Facebook and can take down Google...
Discussion
Hacker Who Allegedly Took Godaddy.com Down Yesterday Says He Can Take Google Down Too
According to a Tweet by @AnonymousOwn3r the person (group) who took claimed responsibility for the DNS attack and take down of Godaddy.com and millions of client sites, said today that he has already taken down Facebook and can take down Google...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 10:30 am
Domain Name Wire
Two things that new TLDs definitely won’t “solve”
They won’t put a noticeable dent in phishing, nor will they alleviate the scarcity of good (.com) domain names. There are a lot of benefits that new top level domain supporters say the web will realize when new TLDs are released. Let me start b...
Discussion
Two things that new TLDs definitely won’t “solve”
They won’t put a noticeable dent in phishing, nor will they alleviate the scarcity of good (.com) domain names. There are a lot of benefits that new top level domain supporters say the web will realize when new TLDs are released. Let me start b...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 10:17 am
Elliot's Blog
Remembering 9/11
I moved to New York City in August of 2002, and I remember exactly what I was doing when the terror attacks took place (just woken up and was checking out the NYSE pre-market report). It’s always a somber day here in NYC, and it’s a good ...
Discussion
Remembering 9/11
I moved to New York City in August of 2002, and I remember exactly what I was doing when the terror attacks took place (just woken up and was checking out the NYSE pre-market report). It’s always a somber day here in NYC, and it’s a good ...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 10:04 am
Domain Name Wire
Why I won’t leave GoDaddy over yesterday’s outage
Go Daddy web hosting still makes sense for me. Yesterday Go Daddy suffered a major outage that appears to have involved its DNS services. The outage lasted about four hours. Back in May I switched from a small web host to Go Daddy, which means that D...
Discussion
Why I won’t leave GoDaddy over yesterday’s outage
Go Daddy web hosting still makes sense for me. Yesterday Go Daddy suffered a major outage that appears to have involved its DNS services. The outage lasted about four hours. Back in May I switched from a small web host to Go Daddy, which means that D...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 9:52 am
The Domains
Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013
Marilyn Cade the Chair of the Business Constituency (the BC) has asked ICANN to extend the formal objection period for new gTLD’s which currently ends on January 12, 2013 until June/July 2013. The formal objection period should not be con...
Discussion
Business Constituency Asks ICANN To Extend Objection Period On New gTLD’s Until June/July 2013
Marilyn Cade the Chair of the Business Constituency (the BC) has asked ICANN to extend the formal objection period for new gTLD’s which currently ends on January 12, 2013 until June/July 2013. The formal objection period should not be con...
Discussion
September 11, 2012, 9:45 am
