CircleID posted earlier today about the "Do's and Dont's of commenting on new gTLD applications". Apparently, there is a lot of abuse of the system, to the point of spamming the platform that ICANN utilizes in order to poll the public opinion and solicit comments. While the system lacks a few … [Read more...]
IISP.HK – ICANN accredited registrar removes stolen content after complaint
August 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, I described how IISP.HK - an ICANN accredited registrar and Internet service provider in Hong Kong, China - decided to cherry-pick content from domain blogs and reproduced it in whole, without any attributions to the sources. In fact, IISP.HK went to the extremes of altering headlines … [Read more...]
IISP.HK – ICANN accredited registrar is a thief of original news and bandwidth
July 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
IISP.HK is an ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar. They are also thieves of original news posted by domain bloggers, including Domain Name Wire and DomainGang. Their full corporate name is ZhuHai NaiSiNiKe Information Technology Co., Ltd. In the News section, IISP.HK has copied hundreds … [Read more...]
My UPS package has arrived – along with a virus
July 31, 2012 by 1 Comment
Every time I receive an email about how my "UPS package has arrived", I can't but shake my head at the methods employed by phishing scammers. That type of email works as follows: the spam arrives the first time around, and one is either bound to open it and trash it or the spam filter kicks … [Read more...]
Dot .CO transfers: No need for 5 day window
July 30, 2012 by 5 Comments
As I mentioned earlier, GoDaddy's pricing is hard to beat - when using discount coupons, that is. I've now successfully transferred most of my .CO domains from Name.com to GoDaddy, as Name.com was unable to match GoDaddy's pricing. With as little as 1 day before expiration, I was able to … [Read more...]
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