This is a holiday week makeup list. I’m late on posting last week’s Sedo end user sales list due to the holidays. Sedo’s best sell last week was Binance.ae for $300,000. It is registered in the name of Kirill Zalipaev using a Gmail account. I cannot find any connection betweenRead More →
A lot of people are suddenly betting that, in the metaverse, .eth addresses will be the new .com. So what is amazon.eth worth? Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; When NFTs first emerged into the public consciousness, the idea behind them was a bit bizarre. Here are these crypto certificates of ownership attached toRead More →
A malicious campaign has been found using a technique called domain facade to obfuscate command and control traffic by exploiting a legitimate Myanmar government-owned domain to route communications to a server controlled by the attacker in an attempt to evade to detection. The threat, which was observed in September 2021,Read More →
The saga that began with the closure of Whites Ferry in December 2020 now seems to be coming to an end, one way or another. County supervisors heard Tuesday evening the results of a study commissioned by Loudoun County and Montgomery County, MD, which is examining options for returning WhitesRead More →
“ProxyShell” vulnerabilities have caused domain-wide ransomware attacks against victims, according to new research published Monday by threat intelligence provider The DFIR Report. ProxyShell is the name given to three Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities disclosed in July that together are capable of elevating privileges and executing code remotely. According toRead More →
Early in the pandemic, Zoom suffered a setback when hackers crashed ‘Zoommbing’ meetings Failing to properly secure its software was costly, resulting in an $85 million lawsuit. There are currently over 30,000 website exploits every day, but at least 20% of the Alexa Top 100,000 websites still use no encryption,Read More →
You’re ready to start your website, but buying a domain name and figuring out your hosting options are major hurdles. Get ready to build your website with this guide to buying a domain name. Jump to: What is a domain name? Just as you have a physical address where customersRead More →
things were not inclination in favor of Airbnb. Online vacation rental market Airbnb recently failed to win a cybersquatting case to reclaim the premium domain name, Tilt.com, which was wrested from the company. However, this is not a case where a registrant forgets to renew a domain name. The storyRead More →
House > Anti-piracy > GDN > Last night the web was full of angry gamers who were unable to play their games due to an unexpected error. Although it’s not entirely clear yet, it seems someone allowed a domain used by Denuvo’s anti-piracy technology to expire, meaning players of someRead More →
StackCommerce If you want your online business to succeed, two of the most important factors for your website to appear in search results are the domain name you choose and your web hosting. During our pre-Black Friday sale, we have some amazing deals for both. And if you want toRead More →
The American Institute of CPAs and its technology arm, CPA.com, have extended the .cpa web domain across the border into Canada, allowing CPAs and CPA firms in Canada to apply for .cpa web addresses to strengthen their brand. The restricted web domain was officially launched in Canada on Tuesday morning.Read More →
In the 2021 Domain Security Report, we analyzed the trend of domain security adoption based on the type of domain registrar used, and found that 57% of Global 2000 organizations use Consumer-grade registrars with limited protection against domain and DNS hijacking, distributed denial of service (DDoS), man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, orRead More →
The list is short. Last week, Facebook announced that it had renamed its corporate entity to Meta as it aims to be a key player in metaverse technology. It does not change the name of its main properties, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The company acquired Meta.com through an interestingRead More →