MySpace stripped of myspace.co.uk
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
Some of you may know that MySpace won the domain myspace.co.uk that was registered by a UK ISP 6 years before the myspace.com was released. Well there is good news… article from register.com
"An independent appeals panel has overturned a heavily-criticised decision to hand control of the myspace.co.uk domain to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Interactive Media.
Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service (DRS), had ruled in favour of MySpace in January, despite the domain having been registered by a small British ISP six years before the US social network was founded
Barring any possible further High Court action by MySpace accusing TWS of "passing off", the judgement, released on Thursday last week and passed to The Register today, means control of the address remains with Stockport’s Total Web Solutions (TWS).
RegisterFly.com now RegFly.com?
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
"It looks like RegisterFly is trying to get back on their feet. The RegisterFly.com domain and all emails now take you to RegFly.com - with the ICANN termination notice removed.
If you notice, the footer now says "A service of Retail Web Group.", linking to http://www.retailweb.us/ . What I find funny is that its registered by Robert O’Neill (regfly ceo) at GoDaddy….Not Registerfly! Plus his email contact is an "@hostflex.com" address - could this be another one of Regflys many spin off services?
YouTube down?!
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Miscellaneous
BBC News has learned that the nearly two-hour long blackout was almost certainly connected to Pakistan Telecom and internet service provider PCCW.
The country ordered ISPs to block the video-sharing website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.
"The BBC News website’s technology editor, Darren Waters, says that to block Pakistan’s citizens from accessing YouTube it is believed Pakistan Telecom "hijacked" the web server address of the popular video site.
Google starts privacy invasion!
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Industry News
"SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google’s new service, which won’t be open to the general public.
Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that’s also required to use other Google services such as e-mail and personalized search tools.
Network Conectivity problems
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by Jack in Announcements
I apologise for the recent interruption of the thor.fusedhosting.net server.
Although datacenter staff remain vague and unhelpful, the conclusion between server users is a small DDoS on a server sharing the network switch with us.
There should be no more problems, if you are having any issues connecting please contact Jack (me).
