Dan.com fixed glitch that blocked out domain traffic

Traffic to domains parked with Dan.com and its domain landers was blocked out for several days, causing a “spinning wheel” inside browsers, unresponsive web pages, or errors. First reported by a NamePros member last Saturday, the issue caused visits to any domain parked with Dan.com to become erratic: Almost 1 in 2 visits ended up […]

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#Uniregistry partners with #Comodo to provide #SSL certificates

Uniregistry, the domain registrar and domain aftermarket, has expanded its offerings to SSL certificates. Uniregistry is a premium sponsor of DomainGang.com. These days, it’s mandatory to enable secure sockets layer connections on web sites, avoiding a number of visual warnings in web browsers, and various ranking penalties by Google. We received notification that Uniregistry, in […]

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Chinese domain market report : SSL certificate issuer from China under fire

A Chinese secure certificate issuer is under fire, for giving them away to unauthorized entities. According to the Mozilla researchers, Shenzhen-based WoSign has been handing out SSL certificates for websites, to people that had no business getting them. WoSign is also being accused of backdating the certificate date of issuance, in order to circumvent security […]

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101Domain: Reset your passwords due to the ‘Heartbleed bug’

The Heartbleed incident is becoming a pain in the butt for many service providers, that have updated their SSL certificates, patched their servers and are now scrambling to have their users change their passwords. In the domain universe, Dynadot asked its users to change their passwords; now it’s the time of 101Domain. In an email […]

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Heartbleed bug: Dynadot alerts its users to change their account passwords

As a side-effect of the so-called “Hearthbleed bug“, thousands of companies offering services over SSL connections are now scrambling to patch their software. Among them are several domain registrars;  yesterday, we published a list of those that might have been affected, including those that are now patched. Dynadot was listed as a patched domain registrar, […]

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Heartbleed bug: Which Domain Registrars are safe?

With the Heartbleed bug affecting millions of web sites utilizing the OpenSSL certificate, one has to worry about the domain registrars using this type of software. The safe ones – at least as far as Heartbleed is concerned – are those that don’t use OpenSSL; primarily running Windows Server software. Even if they are safe […]

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Verisign stock skyrockets after trillion dollar deal with Crimea

Verisign stock traded in the low hundreds after opening today, an increase of more than 1,250% – after the company’s announcement of a large deal with the newly-formed Republic of Crimea. The deal was sealed after the effective success of a new campaign by Verisign to promote its dominance in the SSL certificate market. “The […]

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Edited: TDNAM.com SSL expired

Currently, the Secure Layer Certificate (SSL) for GoDaddy’s TDNAM appears to have expired. When visiting TDNAM.com one sees the following message: www.tdnam.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: auction.godaddy.com , www.auction.godaddy.com , auction.godaddy.com , auctions.godaddy.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) It seems that GoDaddy – themselves a provider of […]

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