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HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host
Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that...
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HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host
Group releases its latest list of “bad” hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the “#1 Bad Host”. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of “bad” things that...
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October 20, 2011, 12:48 pm
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down Cheapies.com
Registrar failing to escrow whois information. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Cheapies.com, threatening to de-accredit the domain name registrar. Cheapies, which bills itself as “domain reg...
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down Cheapies.com
Registrar failing to escrow whois information. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has sent a breach notice (pdf) to Cheapies.com, threatening to de-accredit the domain name registrar. Cheapies, which bills itself as “domain reg...
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October 20, 2011, 11:29 am
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Validus Holdings Says Former Contractor Used .Co Domains to Intercept Confidential Emails
Former contractor allegedly intercepted emails using .co domain names. Validus Holdings, a publicly traded (NYSE: VR) reinsurance and insurance company, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of several .co domain names. The company claims that the ow...
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Validus Holdings Says Former Contractor Used .Co Domains to Intercept Confidential Emails
Former contractor allegedly intercepted emails using .co domain names. Validus Holdings, a publicly traded (NYSE: VR) reinsurance and insurance company, has filed a lawsuit against the owner of several .co domain names. The company claims that the ow...
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October 20, 2011, 10:54 am
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Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie Domains
Movie studio registers Reddit related domain names as it works on movie suggested by Reddit commentor. Reddit is certainly a powerful force on the internet. But is Warner Bros working on a movie about it? The company just registered a number of domai...
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Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie Domains
Movie studio registers Reddit related domain names as it works on movie suggested by Reddit commentor. Reddit is certainly a powerful force on the internet. But is Warner Bros working on a movie about it? The company just registered a number of domai...
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October 20, 2011, 10:19 am
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5 Questions Answered at TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC is over. Here’s how it stacked up. Last Friday I asked five questions that would be answered at this week’s TRAFFIC conference. We now have answers: 1. How will the auction perform? I’m going to give some credit to Rick on t...
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5 Questions Answered at TRAFFIC
TRAFFIC is over. Here’s how it stacked up. Last Friday I asked five questions that would be answered at this week’s TRAFFIC conference. We now have answers: 1. How will the auction perform? I’m going to give some credit to Rick on t...
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October 19, 2011, 10:42 am
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Top Level Domains for the Ultra Wealthy?
Do the 1% need their own top level domain name? Just when you thought you’d seen it all… A new offering from CentralNic called dotFamilyName proposes that the ultra rich should get their own top level domain name. .Buffet, anyone? The co...
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Top Level Domains for the Ultra Wealthy?
Do the 1% need their own top level domain name? Just when you thought you’d seen it all… A new offering from CentralNic called dotFamilyName proposes that the ultra rich should get their own top level domain name. .Buffet, anyone? The co...
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October 18, 2011, 11:49 am
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Stuart Lawley Doesn’t See Competition for .XXX
ICM Registry CEO doesn’t expect adult TLDs to be introduced in New TLD round. Will the new top level domains round that opens next year mean competition for the .xxx top level domain name? Stuart Lawley doesn’t think so. Lawley, CEO of .x...
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Stuart Lawley Doesn’t See Competition for .XXX
ICM Registry CEO doesn’t expect adult TLDs to be introduced in New TLD round. Will the new top level domains round that opens next year mean competition for the .xxx top level domain name? Stuart Lawley doesn’t think so. Lawley, CEO of .x...
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October 18, 2011, 10:13 am
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Defensive Domains Registered for Miami Casino Fight
Brand protection company Mark Monitor registers defensive domains for Las Vegas Sands. Casinos may be on their way to sunny Miami, and Las Vegas Sands corporation is going on the defensive when it comes to domain registrations. Last week Michael Berk...
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Defensive Domains Registered for Miami Casino Fight
Brand protection company Mark Monitor registers defensive domains for Las Vegas Sands. Casinos may be on their way to sunny Miami, and Las Vegas Sands corporation is going on the defensive when it comes to domain registrations. Last week Michael Berk...
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October 18, 2011, 10:00 am
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Sedo Adds Dotster to SedoMLS
SedoMLS gets another partner. Sedo has signed up domain name registrar Dotster to participate in its SedoMLS network. The news comes just one day after the company announced a similar deal with Moniker. SedoMLS is the companies distributed sales netw...
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Sedo Adds Dotster to SedoMLS
SedoMLS gets another partner. Sedo has signed up domain name registrar Dotster to participate in its SedoMLS network. The news comes just one day after the company announced a similar deal with Moniker. SedoMLS is the companies distributed sales netw...
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October 18, 2011, 9:45 am
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Inside Frank Schilling’s $1.65M .XXX Purchase
Schilling recounts a seven figure deal he maid earlier this year. Within twenty minutes during this year’s DOMAINfest conference Frank Schilling agreed to pay $1.65 million for a collection of .xxx domain names — before .xxx was even appr...
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Inside Frank Schilling’s $1.65M .XXX Purchase
Schilling recounts a seven figure deal he maid earlier this year. Within twenty minutes during this year’s DOMAINfest conference Frank Schilling agreed to pay $1.65 million for a collection of .xxx domain names — before .xxx was even appr...
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October 17, 2011, 6:03 pm
