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Go Daddy Selling Domains Door-to-door in India
August 29, 2013 @ 5:17 AMDoor-to-door sales have helped Go Daddy grow its Indian business by 86%, according to a company press release. The market-leading registrar said today that the remarkable growth has come since it launched a customer support center in Hyderabad a year ago. It’s taken 250,000 calls since then, Go Daddy said. The company also pointed to […]
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Name Collisions Comments Call for More gTLD Delay
August 29, 2013 @ 3:40 AMThe first tranche of responses to Interisle Consulting’s study into the security risks of new gTLDs, and ICANN’s proposal to delay a few hundred strings pending more study, is in. Comments filed with ICANN before the public comment deadline yesterday fall basically into two camps: Non-applicants (mostly) urging ICANN to proceed with extreme caution. Many […]
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Melbourne IT says reseller credentials used in hacking of NYT, other media
August 28, 2013 @ 10:18 PMMelbourneIT, an Australian Internet service provider that sells and manages domain names including Twitter.com and NYTimes, said on Tuesday the credentials of a reseller had been used improperly to change domain settings and hack into sites including the NYTimes.com.
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Dot Vegas, Baby!
August 28, 2013 @ 9:20 PMYou say someone beat you to the punch getting the internet domain name you wanted? You’ll soon be competing with a smaller universe than you were when dot com, dot net, and dot org were the only available domain designations.
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How The New York Times Could Have Prevented Yesterday’s Attack for Just $50
August 28, 2013 @ 1:19 PMAdding Registry Lock service to a domain name prevents unauthorized name server changes. Yesterday the nameservers for The New York Times’ NYTimes.com domain name were altered, allegedly by the Syrian Electronic Army, which led to some internet users not being able to access the company’s website. The New York Times could have easily prevented this […]
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ANA: ICANN is Falling Short of Its Mission to Protect Internet Security and Stability
August 28, 2013 @ 12:33 PMThe Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has just weighted in on the Name Collision issue in a in a letter sent to ICANN. The title of the letter is “ICANN is Falling Short of its Mission to Protect Internet Security and Stability”…
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On Day of Hacking, Melbourne IT Announces CEO Theo Hnarakis Will Step Down By The End of Year
August 28, 2013 @ 6:47 AMMelbourne IT chief executive Theo Hnarakis will step down by the end of year after more than a decade as CEO according to afr.com. The move comes on the day that it appears hackers associated with the Syrian Electronic Army Group hackers gained access the New York Times and Twitter amongst others although Melbourne IT who hosted the websites domain names…
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As Comment Period On New gTLD Name Collisions Come to an End, Comments Flood Into ICANN
August 28, 2013 @ 5:57 AMAs the comment period for the Name Collision report comes to an end there were plenty of comments submitted by applicants and others. May of the comments simply endorsed the letter of NTAG to ICANN submitted during the comment period, while others siply asked for the comment period to be extended…
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ICANN to Begin Contracting Process On “Uncalculated Risk” Strings
August 28, 2013 @ 5:25 AMApplicants can start the contract process but can’t sign agreements yet. ICANN has released an update on how it’s handling potential name collisions with new top level domain names as it relates to contracting. The group will move forward with the contracting process even on strings that fall into the “uncalculated risk” bucket – but […]
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MelbourneIT - The Weak Link As Twitter and NY Times Domain Names Compromised
August 27, 2013 @ 2:30 PMTwo big sites have their domains compromised — and both use the same domain name registrar. Twitter and the New York Times have apparently had their domain names compromised, and the two companies have one thing in common: they both use MelbourneIT as their domain name registrar. As of right now, the New York Times […]
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