Domain Whois
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Domain Whois
webtoolpros.com
Whois Masking Considered Harmful (CircleID)
Whenever you register a domain name, your contact details are published in a publicly visible database called "Whois", where your contact details are instantly harvested by spambots and marketers who proceed to email and postal mail you marketing offers, deceptive "domain slamming" attempts, ads for dubious products, and perhaps even telemarketing calls.
Baseball: Avon expansion team expected to be called Lake Erie Crushers (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
The new Avon professional baseball team has a name, and it appears the team will be known as the Lake Erie Crushers. Team spokeswoman Nicolle Meyer said Avon Professional Baseball had a winner in the “Name Your Team” contest that has ran for the last six weeks on their Web site, but she said [...]
Will Microsoft spin its way into the cloud with Kumo? (The Register)
Windows Live Search jumps on fluffy bandwagon Microsoft has sown confusion across the blogosphere after it registered the domain name Kumo.com and redirected it to several Windows Live servers late last week.…
What the heck is "This is My Milwaukee?" (OnMilwaukee.com)
We're getting deluged with e-mails asking us about a peculiar new Web site that just popped up called thisismymilwaukee.com, and we're just as stumped as you.
Rare Domain Names Available to VIP's Before Auction (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
TLD Offers a WEBPRO company and Perfect Commerce to unveil rare domain names by special invitation.
Phishing Alerts for Registrars and Hosting Providers (Netcraft)
Registrars, hosting providers and ISPs are able to provide a footprint of their ip addresses, name servers and whois servers, such that when we validate a phishing report, they receive an alert if the phishing site is using any aspect of their infrastructure.
Wan Junaidi's PhD: it's not fake, but not of ‘trustworthy quality' (Malaysia Today)
Deputy Speaker of Malaysia Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has denied gotten his PhD from a dubious university called American Northeastate University. But rather, according to Malaysiakini :
ICANN drops bad domain registrar, but on technicality (IT World)
An Estonian company that registers domain names will have its accreditation revoked in about two weeks, the Internet's addressing authority said Wednesday.
ReallyOwn Your Domain Name? (Inc Magazine)
Just because you pay the domain name bill doesn't mean you own it. T...
ICANN drops bad domain registrar, but on technicality (ARNnet)
An Estonian company that registers domains name have its accreditation revoked in about two weeks, said Internet's addressing authority said Wednesday.
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