Problems reporting abuse to registrars and hosting companies

We all complain about malware and phishing sites and wonder why it takes so long to take them down / remove the content. Many independent researchers have extreme problems reporting abuse to many registrars and hosting companies. In the same … Continue reading →

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How easy it is to be a scammer

Last revised or Updated on: 24th March, 2016, 2:08 PMI have seen literally hundreds of scam and phishing sites over the last few weeks. We always see them but there has been a massive increase recently. I decided to do a bit of investigation and found a registrar selling the new domain names at absolutely silly prices. £0.88 for 1 year. At that price any scammer can register loads of domains and throw them away as soon as they have used them for 1 or 2 days phishing The registrar I found was https://www.namecheap.com/ I thought lets check this out and decided to purchase an XYZ domain with a nice phishy name  apple-update.xyz I have seen loads of similar examples … Continue reading → Continue reading How easy it is to be a scammer

GoDaddy launches AWS-style servers and apps to build, test and scale cloud services

clouds shutterstock GoDaddy, the web hosting and domain registration company that went public last year, is adding new cloud services to grow the revenues it makes from the 14 million small businesses that make up the majority of its customer base. Today it’s taking the wraps off Cloud Servers and Cloud Applications — Amazon-style features that will let companies build, test and scale cloud… Read More Continue reading GoDaddy launches AWS-style servers and apps to build, test and scale cloud services