Domain offers from Iran and Pakistan: When a bad apple ruins the bunch!

After noticing an automatic response email being sent out for a domain parked at Domain Name Sales, we took a closer look at our account settings. Nope, automatic responses are disabled, so what triggered that email going out? For the record, the email triggered this message: “The inquirer’s email address is invalid or has bounced.” […]

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Domain Name Forum plagued by nasty spam and bad jokes

It’s sad when a forum that was launched several years ago as an arena for domain professionals, has been almost completely annihilated. Plagued by spammers that constantly bombard its “Domains For Sale” and “Domains Wanted” sections with spam about iron golf clubs, DomainNameForum.com looks nothing like the image that Japanese domain investor Satoshi Shimoshita had […]

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Get in tha choppa! NOW!

Renetta Knox sent us a bill this morning, about our “order for helicopter for the weekend“. The invoice read as follows: Your order for our air carriage services has been received and processed. The chopper will be at your disposal from 13.45 sunday to 1.15 a.m. saturday. Once again, our rates are: 1 hour in […]

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Spam solved: Dashed domains to become More Expensive

If you have the patience to scroll through your spam mailbox these days, you will soon discover an obvious pattern. The majority of the domains sending out the bulk of spam, are descriptive long tails with dashes in-between. Spammers do this to achieve two things: first, supposed openness about their “warez” and second, to be […]

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Domainers need a good spanking? Your thoughts!

Executive summary: a handful of blog commentators appear as “repeat offenders” and attempt to gain search engine “juice”, by spam-linking their comments on busy blogs. Both Elliot’s Blog and Andrew’s DNW.com are two such domain publications that command a large amount of daily traffic. Elliot recently announced he won’t be letting those “viagra” comments through […]

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20,000,000,000

That’s right: 20 billion. That’s the number of spam messages caught by Akismet – the service implemented by WordPress, among other software, to combat junk. According to the Akismet blog: That’s an average of around 10 million per day over the 5 years since Akismet first launched. Currently we deal with 30 million spam comments […]

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A Ride Along With Google’s Anti-Search Spam Czar, Matt Cutts

Sponsored by CarrotJuice.com Without getting into the exact specifics, let’s just say that I know a guy that knows a guy, and that guy knows Matt Cutts. I was fortunate enough to get set-up with a quick before work early morning meeting. The only rules for the meeting were no video cameras, and no voice […]

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