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Carpathia Hosting: The best web hosting provider – and here’s why!

Posted by on April 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Carpathia Hosting was relatively unknown outside of the web hosting community, despite its sizable footprint of several thousand web servers. After the Megaupload scandal erupted, it was revealed that the ten year old company is the host of the content shared formerly via Megaupload. This content is now locked in place and despite the nonchalant [...]

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Kim Dotcom FREE on bail: Megaupload.com still seized by the Feds

Posted by on February 21, 2012 · 2 Comments 

Kim “Schmitz” Dotcom – the larger than life CEO of Megaupload – has been released on bail, after it was determined he’s not a flight risk. According to New Zealand publication Stuff.co.nz: In granting bail this morning, Judge Nevin Dawson said at the North Shore District Court that officials had investigated Dotcom’s potential access to [...]

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Megaupload scandal: Which TLDs are owned by whom

Posted by on February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

The Megaupload scandal is still in its infancy, particularly after CEO Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz was denied bail in New Zealand. Fat boy Kim Dotcom is thus expected to face extradition to the US. While Megaupload.com is held hostage by the FBI and dozens of other domains owned by Kim Dotcom and his employees are in [...]

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Megaupload trademark based on deception – Will it be canceled?

Posted by on January 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Megaupload – the company under siege by the FBI – applied for a trademark at the USPTO in 2008; the trademark was issued a year later. The illustrious Megaupload CEO, Kim Schmitz eventually changed his name to Kim Dotcom. However, neither of these names appear on the USPTO application for the “Megaupload” trademark. The application [...]

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Sven Echternach of Megaupload was the buyer of Prince.com

Posted by on January 30, 2012 · 3 Comments 

The sale of Prince.com made a big splash in September of 2010, when it was announced that Andew Rosener of MediaOptions brokered the domain for $235,000. Sven Echternach, the director of business development for the Megaupload company bought the domain on behalf of the corporation. Sven’s name was virtually unknown until it was announced that [...]

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Megaupload scandal: Fat boy Kim Dotcom owns Kim.com and dozens of unseized domains!

Posted by on January 30, 2012 · 2 Comments 

Kim Schmitz, the illustrious and larger than life CEO of Megaupload changed his name legally to Kim Dotcom and launched a multi-million digital empire. He also acquired the domain name Kim.com for an unspecified amount of money, rumored to have been in the upper $xx,xxx range. The 17 year old domain name Kim.com was handed [...]

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