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03 June 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Privacy Domains Hot

It’s always a good day to spin a new domain name out of trends, news, technology and consumerism. To be frank, I’m talking about domain names having to do with personal security, surfing privacy, identity theft and online malware and hacker attacks. In the online web browsing Internet surfing world we live in, awareness and proactive suppression of massive attacks on computers and directory process files is necessary.

Bots and rootkits and seeded access triggered malware is legion. Just going online without a security software screening network access, anonymous remailers, and fast-scanning device defenses is taking your computer’s productivity into your own hands. Identity theft and phishing, password scraping and bot attacks make the servers CnC smoke every minute. Adobe software and sites like FaceBpok face huge security threats from hackers.

Bot, script, host, server, secure, privacy. These are viably searched keywords and terms every curious Internet user will be checking out. Discoverability for security keywords is high. These dynamics and trends are ones that every computer owners or technology consumer wants to know more about. Identifying a term and making a website from a keyword domain involving security and/or privacy is a good idea right now.

Bots are a term most every computer user has heard of, but rarely knows what they are and what they do. Positive bots search the web for certain instances of code and keywords. Bots work for search engines, scrubbing down sites for data particles and relaying wanted information about the site. Reviews of anti-phishing and password detection products are in high demand form the search engines. This is the recipe for a great site.

Negative instances of bots are involved in the malware activity indicated. Command and Control servers govern bot activity once resident on host computers. Bots can report back when the active user is triggering sensitized processes and executing key target actions, like logging into a bank or accessing a secure government server. Just streaming a video from a site can infect the device via bot infection.

Malicious scripts, codes and hacks are are present on every computer currently than most owners realize. The active browser can screen several onclick or onload video actions and get clickjacked into popups or new windows. Bots such as Conficker and Storm can get loaded on the administrator’s or the PC user’s next startup routine. Malware can lie fallow in the background, collecting and reporting site and operational user data for future hacking use.

Free resources like Bothunter and others can slow or halt the incidence of server side or resident PC malware instances. Software such as anonymous remailers can utilize group network resources for shared bandwidth on an anonymity assured basis. Internet browser project teams and companies patches are constantly addressing these newly reported threats. But end users researchers are not the only web browsers whose inquiries heighten discoverability revenue opportunities.

Companies now use massive software arsenals to mount security campaigns against users who violate the company Internet policy. Simply by visiting suspect sites, these data scripts, malware instances and net bots can access browser cookie files, history and drive processes. Exiting personel, bitter employees, disgruntled workers can get sloppy or careless and bring down an entire system. These managers and IT staff browse the web constantly looking for security and privacy sites with good information.

Why shouldn’t it be yours?

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24 March 2010 ~ 1 Comment

L. A. De-Taxes DotCom Firms

Just when the heat was turned on high tax wise for many Los Angeles dot com and Internet based businesses, Los Angeles mayor Anthony Villaraigosa signed away the premium business tax rates slicing and dicing the clicks bizzes in Southern California. The ordinance keeps dotcoms like Shopzilla in business here. Without such regulation as this, all business will have trended to exit the California economy substantially.

The business environment in Los Angeles has gone from soft to Swiss Cheese, and many Santa Monica internet companies have gone belly up or are still struggling. In this softest-in-memory retail and business climate, Los Angeles last year taxed Internet businesses at a premium rate, driving many to threaten to relocate.

Looks like L.A. could be the new regrowth market.

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03 March 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Screech Point

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Typos are Big PPC value, to the experienced domainer willing to risk their hosting account. Big meaning $500 million. Copyright jumping and typo squatting has been going on for some time, but the startling statistics used in this latest report reveal that Google is comfortable deriving PPC ad click revenue before the squatting pocket gets eviscerated.

Edelman and Moore allege that “for Google, typos may equal big business”. This is not news for domainers who have watched the auctions for years seeing trademark and copyright eligible names derived revenues, while other domainers receive prompt cease-and-desist letters.

So. The onus is domainers to behave morally, even when their compatriots are deriving hefty adsense and Google PPC revenues. If this the tone Google means to take with all their ventures? The researcher conclude  “That tells us that PPC funding is *causing* and *exacerbating* typo squatting”. This is serious news for domainers.

Is there a market for PPC revenue in domaining and page hosting related to exploited domain name value without a typo squat? Because if not, Google has a lot of explaining to do to verify their profit projection metrics. And critics of this research point to a  legal wrangle the authors of this report have had with Google.

Is there a witch hunt for Google? Or does the media online behemoth need some sharp and inquiring minds into their business practices? If Google is the next Microsoft, some changes should be made before they own the Internet. Or perhaps, according to some domainers, it’s already too late?

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28 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Chile Con Earthquake

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The architectural lasagna that is now Chile after a massive earthquake has given the spur to domainers grabbing Chile and geo names for that region. Spurred by the recent experience of the Haiti disaster, domainers can buy a name and route traffic or lease the url and forward it to legitimate sites covering Chilean recovery or information and news sites.

The Chile quake was initially reported as 8.3 but may have been as high as 8.8 on the Richter scale. The death toll for Chile is still in the triple digits and searchers are attempting to liberate any trapped survivors.

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27 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Father of Name Value Guards His Brand

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Trump. One word. Don’t need any more. A fusillage of sound bites, bad comb-overs and Page Six columns from recent memory come to mind. But the T-Rump is having some issues with the debateable power of his name. That is, the negotiable power he can derive from another’s use of it.

The Trump name as a brand has served as a lodestone of gossip, New York real estate scandal and reality TV banter for at least a decade. But currently Trump has the brass to knock his investors and scavengers of his casino empire for a loop. Evidently they think they can co-opt his name while operating the casinos. False! The Donald is here to stay.

What’s in a name? Would a casino by any other name smell as sweet? It’s hard to know how Carl Icahn and the other playboy billionaires plan to reorganize value of the resorts in Atlantic City without the Trump name. And T-Rump wants a thick percentage if they use it.

Check out the Global Superbrand of Trump. Ivanka’s New Book, the Trump Card, is available. My friends, that is a website. A comb-over by any other name would not smell as profitable. In my book, anybody working this hard to promote their name gets the leasing rights.

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26 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Web Frenzy Chases Viral Vid

Manly man on the scene! Actor Isaiah has ignited the Web with his Old Spice tongue in cheek commercial. Easily the funniest viral video to come down the internet pike in some time, this internet clip shows what one funny (and modestly produced) video can do for a brand.


Manly Man got a ton of Google detritus, but Old Spice manly (commercial) was a Google fill-in. On-target marketing from a brand formerly associated with staggering sailors with knotty muscles wearing striped jerseys and sandals.

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26 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Twitter to the Bridge, Kirk Out

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Huzzah to the TV series that Twitter built, namely “Sh*t That My Dad Says”, which will star William Shatner. Yes, that William Shatner. A genuine channel o’ fun, the Twitter hit Sh*t That My Dad Says”, is on fire.  Talk about galactically funny (drum crescendo please). William Shatner is so cool, it’s like Robert Goulet and JFK had a baby.

Hiring Shatner is brilliant, as anything William Shatner does is earthquaking news for blogs, shock radio and fanpages worldwide. The Kirk was mighty, but the humor of Shatner has charged everything from “Dodgeball” to “Boston Legal”. And rightly so. If you don’t believe me, watch a movie called ‘Meeting Bill”, Nonstop Shatner. Nonstop fun.

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Shatner is such a funmaker the town of Williamsburg hosts a fest titled (wait for it),  the Shat Ball in tribute to the Star Trek icon. At 79, even being born in Canada can’t stop this cinematic tour de force. Check out these quotes, when you have a star this beloved the copy writes itself:

” Set phasers on mockery!  Adorned in Starfleet gold and blue shirts (there were no red shirts to be seen because they’re, well, you know), revelers celebrated Shatner’s birthday at the Metropolitan Avenue club in style with tankards of Klingon Blood Wine (otherwise known as red wine) and Romulan Ale (Stella Artois with green food coloring).  No gold and blue shirts (there were no red shirts to be seen because they’re, well, you know)”.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/captain_icon_shatner_bridge_williamsburg_tK9rDFcfCsgkf4jULTKBhJ#ixzz0gf4OYvVm

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24 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Networks Still Struggling to Host Video

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If you’re wondering why so much development is happening in video portals these days, take this down. Video websites feed via upload on video portals like Guba, Hulu, and Youtube. The networks have taken steps to protect their content by encapsulating it inside proprietary software environments.

ABC has had live video feeds via thin client of some of its shows for years now, as well as CBS and NBC. Yet all three of these networks have struggling applications, overloaded websites, and flattened error prone blank white screens on any event. Wherefore no hosting robustness, alphabets?

The day after the premiere of LOST’s episode, the abc main website struggles to load. The saturation black screen is almost 95% blank, and any click gets a white screen with a few html plain wrap links. Does the architecture really by video really kill these sites, or are they poorly designed for their bandwidth?

NBC has wrapped its Olympics coverage in Silverlight, which I was informed yesterday by many system messages could not be downloaded or installed. Yesterday I was informed by ABC’s site I was in another country, not the United States and could not view the video. And CBS stalls every day after a Survivor episode airs.

Frankly, only Fox TV can get it right. Gordon Ramsey wouldn’t have it any other way. But it seems end users can support video portals as well as mega media corps. So buy the video name, launch the portal, and greet your viewers. Because the lines at the source are long.

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23 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Website T-Fowl?

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We at Domainowl like to give our fellow webmasters the benefit of the doubt, but here is a situation fraught with question marks.

Silver medal winning men’s figure skater Evgeniy Plushenko famously responded to losing the gold medal in Vancouver last week by trash talking the loss and alleging a poor scoring system.

Plushenko evidently had pinned his hopes of getting a second gold medal on his quad jump. But many observers watching (and the judges too) noticed Plushenko not skating his best and technical errors that sliced the margin advantage to Evan Lysacek, the gold medal winner.

But sore loser Pushenko immediately made statements to the press regarding his wrongful “loss”. Even Alexander Putin reportedly told Plushenko that he had “really” deserved the gold. So yesterday when Plushenko’s website showed his “platinum” medal from Vancouver 2010, many sports and Olympics watchers cried foul. No platinum medal exists, and the implication is clear: the “platinum” medal outranks Lysacek’s gold.

Is this a real beef or just an attention getting (click tricking) website gimmick? The image above shows what the site looks like now, the “Vancouver 2010″ platinum medal prominent. Not many athletes could claim a fake Olympics medal on their website, making us wonder if this webmaster is just trying to grab clicks. But no advertising is shown.

Certainly the American bloggers are up in arms concerning the “platinum” medal, attracting a storm of browsers the Ukrainian skater probably never saw before. Is this a real imbroglio, or merely a device to get stats and then sell the space on Plushenko’s website? Time will tell.

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30 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

5 Secure Online Payment Options For Cyber Monday Sales

By Kyle Locke

So, are you counting down the days until you can take advantage of some great Cyber Monday sales? If so, use this time to think about your online payment options. A credit card with extra protections is the obvious choice, but is it the best choice? Other online payment options exist that may offer you faster, safer and more convenient ways to shop online with less worry.

Review these five online payment options to determine if one may be a better fit this holiday season:

1. PayPal. In a nutshell, PayPal is the most popular way to send and receive money. You sign up for an account and link your bank account or credit card to your PayPal account. A vast majority of online retailers accept PayPal payments so just shop at your favorite online stores and use your PayPal account when it’s time to checkout. PayPal uses the latest anti-fraud technology and also offers an expanded buyer protection program. The upside: you do not have to re-enter your financial information with merchants. The downside: any disputes will be handled through PayPal’s dispute process. For more information visit PayPal.com.

2. Google Checkout. Like PayPal, you must set up an account and link your account to a debit card. Google Checkout, however, does not allow you to link to a checking account. The upside: disputes are resolved between you and the seller. The downside: Google Checkout is not accepted by many online merchants at this time. Go to checkout.google.com for more information.

3. Bill Me Later. About 1000 sites offer a bill you later service that allows you to buy now and pay later online or over the phone. Basically, Bill Me Later extends you credit. The company will ask you for your date of birth and last four digits of your Social Security number and then run a credit check. If you are approved, you have 25 to 90 days to pay for your purchase before you accrue interest, depending on the merchant. The upside: you do not have to use a credit card. The downside: the interest is a huge 19.99 percent and you must pay online from you savings or checking account. Visit Billmelater.com for additional information.

4. eBillme. This service provides an alternative online payment option that allows you to pay securely with cash. Currently, 820 online merchants offer eBillme as a payment option. If you select eBillme at checkout, you receive a best price guarantee, fraud protection and a satisfaction guarantee. At checkout simply select eBillme at and provide your e-mail address. The service will then send you an an eBill which you will pay through your bank’s online banking section. The upside: it’s an easy way to pay if you do not have a credit card or don’t want to use your credit card. The downside: if you are not happy with your purchase or want a refund you may have to wait up to 90 days to get your money back. Additional information is available at eBillme.com.

5. Twitpay. This online payment option is easy if you and the recipient have Twitter accounts. To use Twitpay, sign up for a Twitter account or log in to your account. Post a user message including the word “twitpay,” include the user name of the recipient and the amount. The recipient will receive an alert with instructions about how to pay. Transactions are handled via PayPal. The upside: transactions are fast and easy and you can send payments in any increment from $0.01 to $1000.00. The downside: you will pay five cents for each “twitpay” over $1 and each recipient will pay a user fee of 2.9 percent plus 30 cents. To learn more about Twitpay log on to twitpay.me.

Remember, a savvy online shopper looks for cost-savings and protections. Evaluate each of these online payment options and who knows-you may end up with an even better deal than you expected.

This year do everything you can to make the most out of your holiday shopping. Visit http://www.dealsonblackfriday.com, a site dedicated to providing resources and information on the best Black Friday deals and specials.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kyle_Locke

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