Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Interesti.ng Nigerian domains go on sale, soon will be time to get registeri.ng — With the registration of the first .ng domain in Nigeria occuring today, we could be on the verge of witnessing some new internet startup naming conventions and companies utilising the top level domain of the African country.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Interesti.ng Nigerian domains go on sale, so get registeri.ng — With the registration of the first .ng domain in Nigeria occuring today, we could be on the verge of witnessing some new internet startup naming conventions and companies utilising the top level domain of the African country.
Fran Wang / Agence France Presse:
China cracks down on Internet phone services — BEIJING — China has pledged to restrict Internet phone services — a move that could affect thousands of businesses and individuals making cheap calls via web-based communications companies such as Skype. — “We are carrying …
Tim / The Official Lookout Blog:
Security Alert: Geinimi, Sophisticated New Android Trojan Found in Wild — The Threat: — A new Trojan affecting Android devices has recently emerged in China. Dubbed “Geinimi” based on its first known incarnation, this Trojan can compromise a significant amount of personal data on a user’s phone and send it to remote servers.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Russian e-Payment Giant ChronoPay Hacked — Criminals this week hijacked ChronoPay.com, the domain name for Russia’s largest online payment processor, redirecting hundreds of unsuspecting visitors to a fake ChronoPay page that stole customer financial data.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
RapidShare Shows MPAA/RIAA: We Can Lobby Lawmakers Too — Last month RapidShare discovered that they had been reported by the MPAA and RIAA to the US Government for being one of the world’s “most notorious pirate markets”. Now, on the heels of reports that the entertainment industries spent …
Julian Lee / Sydney Morning Herald:
Groupon to enter Australia as daily deals sites explode — THE world’s largest daily deals website, Groupon, which Google tried to buy this month for $US6 billion, has confirmed it is entering the Australian market. — The company is recruiting people to sign up to its email database …
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
Here’s The URL That Bank Of America Really Wants To Buy But Can’t: BANKOFAMERICASUCKS.COM — Bank of America now has another PR disaster on its hands, one that was completely self-imposed. — By buying up hundreds of domain names like — Bank of America has generated way more bad publicity …
Hayley Tsukayama / Faster Forward:
Bank of America buys up anti-BoA domain names — Talk about keeping your enemies closer. In a preemptive move against a potential Wikileaks attack, Bank of America has gone on a shopping spree, registering domain names of sites that insult their top executives.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Full Homeland Security Affidavit To Seize Domains Riddled With Technical & Legal Errors — Another day and even more evidence that Homeland Security’s decision to have its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group seize a bunch of domain names without any warning or adversarial hearing was a colossal screw up.