Domaingang.com has been reporting on many domain names that have been involved in phishing attacks on Godaddy which have resulted in domain names being stolen out of Godaddy accounts. Unlike most phishing attacks where someone uses a domain controlled by the phisher, to actually send the  customers to which wind up appearing in the URL [...] Continue reading →

One of the biggest names in the domain parking business over the past decade, TrafficZ, is closing down effective at 12:00 AM Wednesday, December 31. Parent company Thought Convergence broke the news in a letter sent to clients this morning. [...] Continue reading →

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End of an era: TrafficZ to shut its doors on Wednesday. Thought Convergence sold off its primary operating businesses this year: it sold Agreed to Escrow.com and Aftermarket.com to Igloo. That left domain name parking company TrafficZ. Today, the company emailed clients informing them that the service will cease operations at 12 am on [...] Continue reading →

I was looking through my Whois checks for the month to see which domains are getting the most checks and which aren’t getting any.  Trunk. com, my recent purchase is getting almost 600 checks a month with DomainShane being second at less than half that.  I was surprised by a few others in the top [...] Continue reading →

Enom is pointing its customer to the turnkey mobile online presence in minutes. The featured goMobi™ gives you an immediate and low cost presence on the rapidly growing mobile Web. Put in some apps, and you are good to go. With an easy to use control panel, goMobi™ allows you to create a professional [...] Continue reading →

One thing I enjoy about following Dyn Research (formerly Renesys) on Twitter is that they provide quite interesting graphics and charts about Internet outages. They've been tracking North Korea's Internet access quite closely over the past week and their tweets have been quite enlightening. Back on December 22, for instance, DynResearch tweeted a [...] Continue reading →