Category: domain

New York orders Craigslist to remove ads for fake COVID-19 treatments

Post author By Randall
Post date March 20, 2020
Categories In attorney general, coronavirus, covid-19, craigslist, domain, domain name, fake, gear, godaddy, health, Internet, medicine, New York, Politics, registrar, Scam, Tech, web

[ad_1] On top of this, James has sent letters to GoDaddy and five other internet registrars asking them to halt the registration of domain names for virus-related scams, and to delist those names that are already in use. While this wasn’t an order, the Attorney General warned that these sites are likely to be violating […]

Congress worries sale of .org could harm non-profits

Post author By Randall
Post date December 23, 2019
Categories In .org, anna eshoo, congress, domain, dot org, elizabeth warren, ethos capital, gear, house of representatives, icann, Internet, internet society, Politics, public interest registry, richard blumenthal, ron wyden, senate, Tech, web

[ad_1] Control over the .org internet domain is close to changing hands, and American politicians aren't happy. Senators Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden have joined Rep. Anna Eshoo in sending a letter demanding answers over the Internet… [ad_2] Source link

GrubHub is buying web domains for the restaurants it lists

Post author By Randall
Post date June 28, 2019
Categories In domain, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, grubhub, Internet, restaurant, seamless, services, Tech, web

[ad_1] Moreover, GrubHub appears to run “shadow” pages on some of these domains without the permission of the restaurants themselves. While both the real and shadow pages ultimately result in orders, GrubHub’s unsurprisingly points foodies solely to its own services. That could deprive restaurants of revenue by steering would-be customers away from the actual sites, […]

‘State Snaps’ founder convicted over armed plot to steal a domain name

Post author By Randall
Post date April 23, 2019
Categories In armed robbery, domain, gear, Internet, rossi lorathio adams ii, Tech

[ad_1] Adams used to post young adults engaging in drunkenness and nudity on his State Snaps’ Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter accounts. His followers, which totalled over a million at one instance, would respond with “do it for State!” — you can clearly see why he repeatedly tried to purchase the domain from 2015 to 2017. […]