Collaborate Disseminate
The btc-e.com domain – previously operated by the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange – has barely been online since being seized by the US authorities on 28 July. Since being seized, the btc-e.com domain has pointed to a different web server, hosted by 1&1 Internet in the United States. It now displays nothing more than a customary […] Continue reading BTC-e: Better hosting than the Feds
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Like thousands or even millions of other British Gas users, I received my usual monthly email asking me to submit my meter reading . Nothing unusual in that, until I followed the link ( as usual ) and got an invalid certificate warning. I do this every month and have … Continue reading → Continue reading British Gas invalid certificate warnings.
My apologies for the site being unavailable yesterday 20 April 2017. ( Afternoon and Evening UK time). There was an outage in the data centre that hosts this server. The reason given to me was a firewall cluster error or failure. This resulted in name resolution problems, so nobody could … Continue reading → Continue reading Data centre problems, site not available yesterday
ICANN’s New gTLD Program was developed to increase the amount of choice within the domain name space, and it has been unquestionably successful in that respect. Consumers and businesses alike can now register domains under hundreds of different top-level domains such as .toys, .mortgage, .software, .gifts, .london and so on. But the launch of so […] Continue reading LEGO vs Cybersquatters: The burden of new gTLDs
More than three years have flown by since the first new generic top-level domain (gTLD) was delegated on 23 October 2013. Today, hundreds of new gTLDs are now available, giving consumers and businesses the opportunity to register domains under the likes of .science, .guru, .xyz, .expert, .ninja, .pizza, .wine, and many more. ICANN’s New gTLD […] Continue reading New gTLDs: Are they a success?
All domain holders will get no end of spam and scams sent to their domain. A favourite scam is to tell the domain holder that his domain name is about to expire. However if you read very closely in the small print at the bottom of the email ( deliberately made just … Continue reading → Continue reading yet another whois registration International Whois Protection Agency scam
More than 800,000 domains were seized, sinkholed , or blocked in ‘Operation Avalanche’, an effort by law enforcement authorities and researchers in 30 countries. Continue reading Authorities Just Shut Down One of the World’s Largest Malware Networks
I saw this article on BBC today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37821867 which states that the UK Government intend to spend several billion pounds to increase UK cyber-security. Sounds good on paper, but in real life will no doubt end up throwing even more taxpayer’s … Continue reading →
I saw this article on BBC today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37821867 which states that the UK Government intend to spend several billion pounds to increase UK cyber-security. Sounds good on paper, but in real life will no doubt end up throwing even more taxpayer’s … Continue reading →