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FairWinds Partners Announces New Web-Based Domain Name Strategy Service | SYS-CON MEDIA
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U.S. Seizes 18 Domains Accused of Selling Counterfeit Goods | Digital Media Wire
<a href="/image/ice-0"rel="nofollow"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/seizedservers_0.gif"align="left"height="117"hspace="4"vspace="4"width="252"/></a><i>Washington</i>- Following three similar actions, the U.S.government on Monday seized 18 Internet domains believed to be associated
Typosquatting Scams in Social Media
Blog post - Typosquatting Scams in Social Media - Robert Siciliano
Typosquatter Plays Innocent By Casting Microsoft As Big And Mean | Techdirt
Last month, Microsoft sued typosquatter Alf Temme for redirecting mistyped domains like "ho0tmail.com" and "hot5mail.com" to his own website, which sells ridiculously expensive exercise machines. Typosquatting has been going on since the early days of the internet, and the practice eventually
Schneier on Security: Typosquatting
"Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting," by Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman: Abstract. We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting", the intentional registration of misspellings of popular website addresses. We estimate that at least 938 000 typosquatting domains target
Yahoo Snaps Up OMG.com Domain Name Two Months After Selling Contests.com | paidContent
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has become quite active in the domain name market lately. It sold contests.com for a cool $380,000 in Juneand it has now picked up omg.com for $80,000,<a
Cybersquatting plagues pharmaceutical brands
Cybersquatting of leading pharmaceutical brands has reached an all-time high, according to the latest BrandJacking Index research by MarkMonitor.
Typosquatting for Fun and Profit
Blog post - Typosquatting for Fun and Profit - Robert Siciliano
Rapidshare Wins Cybersquatting Claims Against Linking Sites | Digital Media Wire
<i>Los Angeles -</i>Free file-hosting service Rapidshare has wonmore than two dozen cybersquatting claims at the World Intellectual PropertyOrganization (WIPO), and been awarded the domains of sites with names similarto its own, TorrentFreak reported. Part of the company's
Hackers breach VeriSign "parked" domain server
Hackers last week broke into a server hosting thousands of "parked" domains that had been registered through VeriSign's Network...
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