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53 indicted in massive phishing plot

The FBI broke up a massive phishing scam last week, indicting 53 people in the United States in connection with a plot that victimized thousands of customers at two major U.S. banks. Another 47 Read more...

Companies to pay a bundle for new domain names

The world of domain names is expanding, and in a short time, you'll be able to buy a domain name and have exclusive use of it. Companies like IBM and HP will shell out lots of money to get suffixes Read more...

The dot-com world is about to explode

You've gotten pretty used to dot-com, dot-net and dot-gov. But your world is about to change in cyberspace with web addresses ending in far different worlds. And that change could turn your business Read more...

Recession hurts web address growth

The economic downturn is being felt in all sectors, including domain names. Domain registrar VeriSign's said 10.1 million new web addresses were registered in the fourth quarter. That figure may Read more...

DNS cache poisoning spotted at China Netcom

China Netcom (CNC), one of China's largest Internet service providers (ISP), had the cache of its primary DNS server poisoned to redirect certain common typos to a malicious site. Now, it is Read more...

Domain name explosion

international organization that controls Internet addresses has agreed by next spring to allow companies,individuals and coalitions to create their own designations, or as the Los Angeles Times Read more...

Press Releases

Internet REIT, Inc. Selects Afternic as Exclusive Broker for Premium Domains

Over 1,000 High Quality Domains Now Listed Through Afternic’s Domain Listing Service WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Afternic, the world’s leading domain marketplace, announced today that it has Read more >>

ICM Registry Opens Landrush Period for .XXX Domains

Exclusive Opportunity to Register Valuable New Domain NamesPALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry, the registry of the new .XXX top-level domain (TLD), today announced Read more >>

Research and Markets: Global - Internet - Search Engines, Websites and Internet User Statistics - 2011

Damballa’s Gunter Ollmann to Present at the 2011 API IT Security Conference for the Oil and Gas Industry

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Damballa Inc., the company transforming the fight against cyber threats, announced that Gunter Ollmann, vice president of research for Damballa, will be a featured speaker Read more >>

WordPress.com Announces Addition of .ME for Domains

PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WordPress.com, the world’s most popular blog-building site, has announced that it has added .ME as its newest domain extension option when customizing a Read more >>