SecurityRatty: tag: tasters

Report: Google To Kill Off Domain Tasting

2008-01-24 19:56:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack

...tasters make a lot of money even on the domains they end up deleting. A recent ICANN report indicated that the majority of domains registered these days are for tasting purposes. Domain Tasting has been controversial for some time now, especially since Network Solutions began employing it, allegedly in order to stymie tasters . Now...

Tags: domain, google, registration period, recent icann report, registration, stymie tasters, domains, day grace period, tasters

Report: Google to Kill Off Domain Tasting

2008-01-24 19:56:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack

...tasters make a lot of money even on the domains they end up deleting. A recent ICANN report indicated that the majority of domains registered these days are for tasting purposes. Domain tasting has been controversial for some time now, especially since Network Solutions began employing it, allegedly in order to stymie tasters. Now...

Tags: domain, google, five-day grace period, registration period, recent icann report, registration, stymie tasters, domains, tasters

Network Solutions Frontrunning And Tasting, Version 1.1

2008-01-09 22:21:14 by Editor in Cheap Hack

...tasters, but of course the practice is, itself, a form of frontrunning and domain tasting. A statement was sent out to a number of venues on which complaints were heard, including CircleID and DomainNameWire : Throughout the launch of this effort we have made, and continue to make, improvements to our protection measure. I want to update you...

Tags: network solutions, domain names resolve, names, network solutions grab, protection, customer protection measure, resolve, domain, home page

Who's Selling Front-Running Data?

2008-01-18 11:15:55 by Editor in Cheap Hack

...tasters. How would ISPs get this data? Presumably by spying on your communications. Sorry, I think this would have shown up and been a scandal through other means long ago if it were true. Spyware is a plausible option; if a user, unbeknownst to them, is running a keylogger, and they do a whois, the spy can see this and jump the claim on the...

Tags: data, whois, command line whois, provide data, internet service providers, hard evidence, service, network solutions, evidence