Three hackers — Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, James Robert Black Jr., 20, and Michael Paul Lebel, 28 — have been hit with a federal conspiracy charge this week due to their involvement in the 2008 hijacking of Comcast.net – a prank that took down the cable company’s homepage and email service for more than five [...]
Sedo?s latest domain market study shows how the online property investment continues to outpace bricks and mortar market Sedo today announces findings from its latest Quarterly Domain Market Study, highlighting the continued growth of the online property market. The last quarter has witnessed a 5.5 per cent increase on the number of domains changing [...]
Relist .de domains to turn a profit The results from Sedo’s historic 1, 2, and 3-Character .de Pre-Auction are in, and it was a resounding success! With over 250 domains sold for a value of over $1.1 million, the demand for the brand new .de domains is clear. New owners of a unique .de domain [...]
Sedo is happy to announce an exciting 2 character domain auction, which will be held from November 5th-12th. With this being the last themed auction Sedo is happy to announce an exciting 2 character domain auction, which will be held from November 5th-12th. With this being the last themed auction of 2009, we saved the [...]
The following is a guest post by Venkat Balasubramani – Venkat is a co-founder of Focal PLLC, a law firm focused on internet and technology issues. He blogs at Spam Notes and Professor Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Follow him on Twitter: @VBalasubramani. This post was previously posted at Professor Goldman’s Technology & [...]
The SnapNames November Domain Auction Showcase ends tomorrow at Nov 17, 2009 12:15:00 PM PST and has not been able to attract too many bidders so far, most likely due to the bidding scandal uncovered earlier this month. Out of the 240 domains in the auction, only 12 have been able to attract bids so far. [...]
Once again Sedo was so kind to provide us with selected information about domain sales in the previous week. The chart is lead by LaFontaine.com for $50,000, which does mean Fountain in French, but aside from being the last name of German Politician Oskar Lafontaine also is the last name of a car dealer in [...]
Levinson Axelrod, a New Jersey law firm, is trying to shut down an ex-employee’s gripe site, alleging cybersquatting and trademark infringement. Edward Heyburn, who worked for Levinson Axelrod from 1998 to 2004, started a “Levinson Axelrod Sucks” website in late September, using the domain name LevinsonAxelrod.net to post personal opinions and complaints about the firm and [...]
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in a press release today that Union, New Jersey resident Daniel Goncalves was indicted today. Criminal Justice Director Deborah Gramiccioni stated that the Division of Criminal Justice Major Crimes/Computer Analysis & Technology Unit obtained a seven-count state grand jury indictment. Goncalves, 25, was charged with unlawful taking, theft [...]
Paul Stahura (image from his facebook profile) Paul Stahura launched eNom in 1997 from an ISDN line in his garage in Redmond Washington. The company now is part of Demand Media and Paul was a CSO as well as a member of the board. After 12 years, he is now leaving the company. Here is [...]