Category Archives: Domain

E-mail typos result in 20GB of stolen data

By doris | Published: September 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com – Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months. The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would [...]

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Go Daddy, an Internet domain registrar, is sold

By doris | Published: July 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press. Go Daddy Group Inc.’s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover [...]

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Red Light Gets Green Light: .XXX Domain Moves Toward Approval

By doris | Published: June 29, 2010

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com After a decade of failed attempts, it looks as though the online adult entertainment industry will get its own top-level domain — .XXX. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the decision on Friday after an independent review countered its previous refusals. Exactly when the .XXX domain name [...]

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