A hacker brings down GoDaddy

According to multiple users with GoDaddy hosted sites (including us), the hosting service appears to be having some issues. GoDaddy’s outage has the potential to take down millions of sites as it is one of the most popular domain registrars and web hosting companies....

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for GoDaddy Web Outage

Thousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com were down Monday, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service, thanks to an internet group that goes by the name...

GoDaddy Confirms SOPA Support: Dec 29 is 'Move Your Domain Day'

GoDaddy Favors Internet Censorship Bill You would think that American web-hosting companies would be opposed internet-censorship legislation which would have them on the hook for the actions of their customers,...

Namibia’s ccTLD .NA to Generate More Than $27 Million for Schools

Countries such as the Republic of Colombia (.co), the Island of Tuvalu (.tv), the Island of Samoa (.ws), the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (.cc), the Republic of Cameroon (.cm) have monetized their Internet country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLD) to generate millions of dollars for...

Tabitha Taylor Photo: Joan Rivers Body Double in Go Daddy (Video)

Tabitha Taylor Has Been Touted As the Body Double For Joan Rivers in the Super Bowl Go Daddy Commercial However, Joan Rivers has said that Tabitha Taylor was not her body double, and that it was her 77-year-old body...

Super Bowl XLV – The Ads – Part I

So, 2011’s Super Sunday saw Wisconsin’s cheese-stuffed Packers emerge victorious over the most impressive steelworker’s union Pennsylvania’s ever seen. It was a game that, while not exactly thrilling in...

GoDaddy open-for-business to fraudulent WHOis registrations

Criminals seem to now have a place to go to engage in fraudulent activities.  That is GoDaddy.  Simply register fictitious contact information that cannot be traced by law enforcement.  The criminal is then free to pursue various fraudulent activities and...

Tuvalu is Sinking: No Go On .TV Domains, Daddy

The island of Tuvalu is sinking, so you shouldn't buy .tv domains, says GoDaddy. If that's true, how fast is the island disappearing? Will it be gone before your domain name is up for renewal? " ...

Insider bidding at domain name provider GoDaddy

What has a person got to do to keep a domain name? Apparently you have to bid against VP Alan Dicker, an executive of Domain Name Aftermarket (TDNAM). A couple hours ago, the insider bidding story appeared on...

Cop-Watch Site Taken Offline

A community site dedicated to tracking and rating local police officers was quietly-- and without warning-- taken offline. Another example of GoDaddy rolling over at the first takedown notice, even when no illegal...

Good Samaritans are drawn to the “D.C. Madam” like flies to honey.

"Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the target of a federal investigation for running a suspected prostitution ring,  has fallen on hard times [...] her once-lucrative source of income appears to have dried up entirely;...

The Mobile Web Becomes Right Sized :: MAXINE

"As the mobility age becomes more of age, it was only a matter of time that the visual side, the display side of the web, started to deliver content for the small format screens like the ones found in ones...

Nmap Hackers: Seclists.Org shut down by Myspace and GoDaddy

"From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_insecure.org>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:47:47 -0800Hi everyone,Many of you reported that our SecLists.Org security mailing listarchive was down most of yesterday (Wed), and all you really need toknow is that we're back up and running! But I'm...

Microsoft Choking Domain Parking Business Practices?

"In a follow up to Microsoft’s Strider URL Tracer tool released a few months ago, SecurityFocus is running an article which takes a closer look at how Microsoft’s free Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol is aimed at fighting typo-squatters and domain parking abuse. From...

The cat is out of the bag about how people are gaming the domain name system

Some aspects of the esoteric domain name industry are somewhat gray market but "domain kiting" is charcoal gray. A loophole in the system allows registrants to 'try before they buy' via the 5-day grace period for names - Bob Parson's coined the term "Domain Kiting" for this....

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