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Cleaning Up WordPress iframe Hack

Posted on July 24th, 2009 by admin in Domain Development | No Comments »

A client of mine’s WordPress installation got hacked the other day – lots of hidden iframe tags pointing to various hacker domain names got inserted into various index.php files inside wp-content and wp-admin as well as inside the main index.php file. This was the first of this kind of hijack that I have seen and [...]

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Hong Kong Hosting ICANN’s Discussion of New TLDs

Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

A discussion about the proposed new top level domains to be introduced by ICANN will take place in Hong Kong this Friday. ICANN will look to ease worries about the new generic tlds by conducting a consultation session – one of five to be held on the matter (Sydney, New York, London, and Abu-Dhabi holding [...]

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Escrow.com Celebrates 10th Birthday

Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Escrow.com is proud to celebrate 10 years as a reliable source for online transactions. Founded in 1999, Escrow.com has seen steady growth since launching a decade ago and now successfully handles thousands of transactions each month. As ecommerce grows year over year, so does the amount of online fraud and identity theft claims. According to [...]

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Godaddy Promotes Twitter To Customers

Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

I went to renew some domains today at Godaddy and was surprised to find them openly pushing me to get usernames for my domain names on Twitter – to “Promote Your Brand and Stay Connected with Twitter”. An interesting move by Bob Parsons – I wonder what the catch is . Here is the screen [...]

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Turn Your Domains Into Commission Earning Machines

Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by admin in Domain Monetization, Domain News, Recommended posts | No Comments »

If, like myself, you have a lot of domain names with a lot of potential simply not making what you think they should be making in parking revenue perhaps you should think hard about diversifying your monetization schemes? I am not talking about just premium domain names – obviously we are not all Rick Schwartz [...]

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PirateBay Buyer Backing Out?

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

The would-be buyer of The Pirate Bay websites and domain name – Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory X – is trying to backpedal out of the deal according to news coming out of a Dutch court Tuesday – the buyer was reported to be saying that it is “uncertain whether the purchase will ever be completed”. [...]

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Results For SnapNames July Showcase Auction

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling, Domain News | No Comments »

As you may be aware SnapNames since recently holds regular monthly showcase auctions on their site. This month saw mixed results for the auction with the total sales amount coming just under $90k at $89,353.00 by my calculations. I personally thought discounttravel.net ($3,900.00), musicarchive.com ($4,710.00) and a couple of others were really good buys. Here [...]

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Undefined Function is_site_admin() After Upgrade To WordPress 2.8

Posted on July 21st, 2009 by admin in Domain Development | 6 Comments »

I finally got around to upgrading my blog’s WordPress version to 2.8. I followed the usual procedure – download latest code from WordPress, disable all plugins, upload latest code to my server overwriting everything except wp-content and wp-config.php. Once I was done, I went to my admin page hoping to run the upgrade script and [...]

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DomainFest Global Finds New Venue

Posted on July 20th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

DomainSponsor, the domain monetization branch of Oversee.net, announced today that their DomainFest Global event will be held at the luxurious Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California on January 26-28, 2010. The entire hotel property has been booked exclusively for this conference to improve intimacy and networking amongst attending domainers. DomainFest Global will start accepting [...]

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Candy.com Launched – An Industry Leader In The Making

Posted on July 19th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

Those that doubted the wisdom of the recent acquisition of Candy.com by G&J Holdings for a sweet $3 million will think again – especially after the Candy.com website was launched recently. The website is just what you would expect of a web portal presenting the sweet, sugar-coated delicacies we all fell in love with in [...]

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