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Cyber Criminals Sell .gov, ,mil and .edu Domains for a Price of $55
January 24, 2011 @ 6:00 AMHacked government and defense domains are being sold by cyber crooks at relatively acceptable prices. .gov, .mil and .edu domains in the United States and Europe can be sold to interested parties for a price between $55 and $499 each. Besides, the hacker also sells admin login credentials to hacked sites and looted personal data from compromised sites.
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Google Lowercases Adwords Display Urls
January 24, 2011 @ 5:39 AMAs expected Google has started to roll out their new policy of requiring the domain portion of the display URLs in the AdWords ad to be lowercase. If you search at Google, all the domain names in the AdWords ads should appear lowercase. If not, then maybe you are on an older data center and you will soon see it.
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Google May Let You Blacklist Domains to Fight Spam
January 23, 2011 @ 3:03 PMReady for do-it-yourself spam fighting? Google has discussed giving searchers the ability to remove domains from its search results. That’s according to Matt Cutts, Google’s top spam fighter, who’s been posting frequently in a Hacker News discussion about Google’s search quality/spam blog post from Friday morning. In the discussion, Hacker News user “bradly” asks if Google would consider letting searchers remove domains from search results themselves. Cutts replies, “we’ve definitely discussed this,” and seems to hint that some kind of announcement may be on the way…
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Dine With an Expert at Domainfest, But Frank Schilling is Booked
January 23, 2011 @ 6:56 AMHurry if you want to dine with an expert at DOMAINfest. DOMAINfest is trying something new at its conference the first week of February: Dine With An Expert. Attendees can reserve a spot at the breakfast or lunch table with a handful of the event’s speakers. So who are the hottest tickets? Frank Schilling and SEO…
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New Top Level Domain Timeline Takes Another Hit
January 22, 2011 @ 6:17 AMMore delays likely to handle GAC issues. ICANN has released details about its upcoming meeting with the Governmental Advisory Committee regarding new top level domain names. Although the meeting will take place ahead of the ICANN meeting in San Francisco this March, the February 28-March 1 get together does not appear to be the final meeting…
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Wikipedia Owns Some Wikileaks Domains, But Assange Won't Take Them Over
January 21, 2011 @ 1:06 PMWikipedia owner Jimmy Wales says that WikiLeaks has not completed the paperwork on some Wikia-owned domains it transferred and that Wikia will let the domain names expire. Although some people confuse the two entities, they have no official relationship. Wales started the encyclopedia site called Wikipedia, which has involves people working collaboratively to write and edit online encyclopedia entries. Julian Assange started WikiLeaks, the organization that obtains secret documents from governments and businesses for the purpose of leaking them to the public.
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Why I Rarely Hand Register Trend Domain Names
January 21, 2011 @ 11:55 AM3-D was hot last year, and some might argue it’s still hot. Everywhere you went, people talked about 3-D televisions and movies, and practically everything else 3D. From my perspective, that chatter seems to have died down a bit and consumers aren’t buying 3D tvs as much as expected. Too expensive, ugly/annoying glasses, not enough programming…etc all contributing to this… They’ll be discarded like the losing lottery tickets they were hoped to be by their owners.
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A Visit to Directi Headquarters in Mumbai, India
January 21, 2011 @ 10:52 AMThe Directiplex is a 1,500 seat building in the Andheri East area of Mumbai. It’s an impressive testament to Directi’s growth. The building houses all of the company’s businesses including ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, Skenzo, BigJumbo, and Media.net. It also houses the company’s new domain registrar BigRock.
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Namedrive Releases Details On Investment and Reorganization
January 21, 2011 @ 7:04 AMToday I received information from domain name parking and sales company NameDrive about its recent investment from BIP Investment Partners and its company reorganization. BIP Investment Partners S.A., a public investor listed on the Luxembourg stock exchange, made an undisclosed investment in the company. BIP is no stranger to domain names; it holds investments in German registrar Key-Systems, Luxembourgian registrar EuroDNS, domain fund Domain Invest, as well as Polish registrar az.pl.
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Threewords.me Acquired By Domain Name Czar
January 20, 2011 @ 4:21 PMMark Bao, creator of viral vanity app ThreeWords.me, has just sold his site and service to Kevin Ham, we’ve learned. Ham is a dot-com mogul whose portfolio includes around $300 million worth of domain names. Billed as “the man who owns the Internet,” Ham owns domains such as God.com and Satan.com and routinely pays six-figure prices for URLs he likes. Bao launched the app not too long ago; its purpose was to solicit compliments from users’ online friends…
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