Sedo scammers take advantage of email predictability It was in early 2000 when one of my few - back then - domains got hijacked by a Turkish hacker. He picked that particular domain because it’s a very common Greek cussword, shared equally among our eastern neighbors. The domain was registered with Network Solutions, which offered back then an update process via email. [...]
Sedo removes Obama & McCain domains from its marketplace In yet another hasty move, Sedo has inexplicably begun to remove political domains from its marketplace. It is uncertain how far the pattern searcher reaches, however Carolyn from the support department mentioned that their legal department decided to remove domains that contain the name of the US political candidates, Obama and McCain. I expect [...]
Lost in the abyss between Namejet and Netsol Namejet’s utilization of the Network Solutions pre-release service has created an aftermarket for really old domains that expired and were not renewed. Instead of dropping them, Netsol offers them up on auction. Several people, myself included, go through the pre-release lists for domains of value: aged domains, traffic generators or simply brandable domains. So far, [...]
iPhone Girl mania hits the web Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past week, you’re aware by now of a well-meant but unfortunate incident that left some test pictures taken at a Chinese factory inside the iPhone that was being tested. Nothing even closely provocative as Paris Hilton’s drunk pictures; the 3 images are those of a female Chinese [...]
Sedo.com scrambles to patch data breach but concerns still remain Less than 24 hours after introducing a series of features that exposed seller data to anyone with the will to acquire it and basic scraper-scripting skills, Sedo.com changed the way the “Meet the seller” link functions.
In a dry and short statement issued on DNForum, Sedo’s Customer Relations Associate Monica Ibrahim said:
“As a quick FYI, our [...]
