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"The scam, like many other increasingly targeted attacks, uses contact information available in the publicly available "whois" database to direct read more »
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"Spoofed websites are typically live for less than seven days, Internet security firm Trend Micro has revealed.
The use of unclassified URLs is th read more »
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Domain tasting is the practice of registering a domain for a very short period of time, loading it with pay per click ads from the major search engin read more »
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"The Department of Justice said in a statement that Scali registered an e-mail account with netzero.net under an alias and then sent out e-mails bet read more »
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"Several weeks ago I performed a domain lookup on GoDaddy but didn’t have time to make the purchase so went back two days later to find it had been read more »
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"Many people who have tried to transfer a domain name from GoDaddy to another registrar have faced a hurdle. If they’ve changed their whois informat read more »
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"Like real-world theft, the hijacking of an Internet address can happen quickly and with little warning..." read more »
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"The company that controls the .name registry is charging for access to domain registration information, a step that security researchers say frustr read more »
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"Back in 2003 the Federal Trade Commission had to go to court against the Domain Registry of America, a company known for their use of direct US mai read more »
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"ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC ) has issued an advisory on a process known as Domain Name Front Running. It is a practice read more »
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"The Internet's key oversight agency is investigating suspicions that insider information is being used to snatch desired domain names before an in read more »
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A new study by a major internet security company is taking aim at typosquatting, the practice of buying a misspelled domain name in the hopes that so read more »
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"Sometimes it takes a DNS attack for an organization to get serious about the security of its Internet-facing DNS name servers. Many of these server read more »
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"Web site domain name registrars are increasingly finding themselves at the forefront of the never-ending slog against online con artists and phishe read more »
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"Symantec claims to have analyzed 17 well-known candidate domain names in the course of the US 2008 elections, to reveal that a large number of typo read more »
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