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Twitter goes down due to DOS attack
In: Uncategorized| Update| scams
6 Aug 2009Twitter was taken offline for several hours today due to a denial of service attack (DDoS). Twitter confirmed the attack via a post on its official blog earlier today.
Recently the number of domain name theft reports has been steadily growing and with the latest case of Warren Weitzman,a well known domainer being the victim of such thefts having Adios.com, sou.com and many other domains stolen although the accused in t P2P.com case is not related to the Weitzman case it is pleasing to [...]
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- Tags: domain, First, scam, Theft
Consumers warned over .co.uk websites.
1 Aug 2009With consumers making more and more purchases on line, many trust the domain extension that is native to their country. This is one attributing factor to the growth in the number of country code domains being registered. A story published by the Telegraph News Paper in the UKÂ has highlighted a growing problem that consumers [...]
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- Tags: .co.uk, cctld, domain, scam
Well it looks like eliteinvestments.net and theonlinebrokerage.com are still up to their old tricks trying to scam domain investors into paying for domain appraisals. Recently I asked for an appraisal on a well known domaining forum, one day after requesting the appraisal from forum members I received the following scam email to the address listed [...]
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- Tags: domain, forum, scam
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- tom: very interesting [...]
- moonie: Hi James, good effort for trying. Thanks for letting us know the situation. I guess GoDaddy are more [...]
- James: I got an email from GoDaddy, showing that they clearly couldn't care less that they are hosting a sc [...]
- James: You're quite right there. There's a forum thread about this (and the variations on it that people ha [...]
- Yogie: Hahahaha.. wagner just sent me e-mail with te same templates.. thanks for this warning.. [...]
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