Phishing for Treats As infosecurity professionals, we have a lot to learn from Halloween. There are many important trick-or-treating strategies used on this particular holiday, whether it be to find... [...] Continue reading →

Domain name appears to be on a payment plan at Escrow.com. The valuable domain name Gab.com is in limbo. It is used for a ‘free speech’ social network and it seems that the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter was radicalized (in part) by using the service. GoDaddy told the company to move its domain name elsewhere. A [...] Continue reading →

Domain name sales are pretty much the most important thing for domain investors these days. While I still do outbound marketing from time to time, I believe I sell more domain names via inbound purchase inquiries than any other way these days. This has changed over the years. In prior years, I might have said [...] Continue reading →

Welcome! This is Domain Movers, a series on DotWeekly where I research domain names on the move, with a focus on the corporate level. These are often early detection’s, so not a lot of information is known at the time. I try to provide as much information as I can dig up though. Here is [...] Continue reading →

.NZ’s Domain Name Commission has published its monthly update for October with news on its Domain Name Abuse Forum in November and that it is currently seeking submissions as part of their Framework Policy Review 2018. The Domain Name Abuse Forum next month has Justice Minister Andrew Little opening the event. Numbers are restricted to [...] Continue reading →

Earlier this week, I had the honor to speak at the opening of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 2018 Plenipotentiary conference (PP-18) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Every four years, this conference brings together representative governments and members from telecommunications, information and communication technologies (ICT) and academic institutions from all over the world to decide [...] Continue reading →

Gab.com which was informed by GoDaddy they had to hit the road has found a new home at Uniregistry. In a hotly contentious thread on Namepros Rob Monster updated the new whois info. The thread posted as a domain discussion thread turned political with some religion sprinkled in. Interestingly two people mentioned to me the [...] Continue reading →