Written on August 4, 2009 by admin
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When it comes to the Internet, reputation management, branding—your entire Internet presence—begins with your domain name. Start enough websites or talk to enough people, and you’re sure to find someone who’s had a domain registered right out from under them. Having your locked, registered domains transferred out of your account without your permission is an even bigger nightmare. Aside from appealing to registrars—who may or may not be able or willing to help—there seemed to be little you could do, unless you could find enough info to sue the thief in civil court.
But now there’s a precedent for criminal action against domain thieves—the first arrest in a domain theft took place last week. Although they don’t detail what the exact charges are, Domain Name News outlines the meat of the case:
Daniel Goncalves, the 25 year old law firm computer technician arrested on Thursday, reportedly hacked in to the [domain owners, the] Angels’ AOL email account, used that information to retrieve the login details for the P2P.com from the Godaddy.com domain account. Goncalves performed an internal “domain push” transfer,which in effect transfered the domain name to another Godaddy account that he owned. Goncalves reportedly also falsified Paypal.com transaction records in an attempt to cover his trail and provide evidence that made it appear that he purchased the domain name for $1,500 from the Angels. The domain was listed in the name of Daniel Louvado during this time period (a bogus name consisting of Goncalves’s first name and his fiance’s last name).
The Angels had actually bought the domain in 2005 for $160,000. Goncalves stole the domain in 2006 and resold it in 2007 for $111,000. In late 2007, the Angels sued Goncalves and his unwitting buyer. The civil suit has been amended recently and is still ongoing.
What do you think? Can criminal charges for Internet real estate stand up in court, or will civil suits continue to be the recourse for domain theft victims?
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First Domain Thief Prosecuted
Tags: a-bogus-name ,aol ,criminal-action ,domain ,domain-name ,godaddy ,internet ,made-it-appear ,right-out-from ,thief ,what-the-exact
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Written on August 4, 2009 by admin
Filed Under: marketing
When it comes to the Internet, reputation management, branding—your entire Internet presence—begins with your domain name. Start enough websites or talk to enough people, and you’re sure to find someone who’s had a domain registered right out from under them. Having your locked, registered domains transferred out of your account without your permission is an even bigger nightmare. Aside from appealing to registrars—who may or may not be able or willing to help—there seemed to be little you could do, unless you could find enough info to sue the thief in civil court.
But now there’s a precedent for criminal action against domain thieves—the first arrest in a domain theft took place last week. Although they don’t detail what the exact charges are, Domain Name News outlines the meat of the case:
Daniel Goncalves, the 25 year old law firm computer technician arrested on Thursday, reportedly hacked in to the [domain owners, the] Angels’ AOL email account, used that information to retrieve the login details for the P2P.com from the Godaddy.com domain account. Goncalves performed an internal “domain push” transfer,which in effect transfered the domain name to another Godaddy account that he owned. Goncalves reportedly also falsified Paypal.com transaction records in an attempt to cover his trail and provide evidence that made it appear that he purchased the domain name for $1,500 from the Angels. The domain was listed in the name of Daniel Louvado during this time period (a bogus name consisting of Goncalves’s first name and his fiance’s last name).
The Angels had actually bought the domain in 2005 for $160,000. Goncalves stole the domain in 2006 and resold it in 2007 for $111,000. In late 2007, the Angels sued Goncalves and his unwitting buyer. The civil suit has been amended recently and is still ongoing.
What do you think? Can criminal charges for Internet real estate stand up in court, or will civil suits continue to be the recourse for domain theft victims?
Read the original:
First Domain Thief Prosecuted
Tags: a-bogus-name ,a-precedent-for ,able-or-willing ,angels ,from-the-angels ,godaddy ,have-found ,internet ,legal ,permission ,right-out-from
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Written on August 4, 2009 by admin
Filed Under: book, marketing
Not to be all Wizard-of-Oz on us, but Yahoo really doesn’t want us to pay attention to the man behind the curtain (Steve Ballmer). No, they want to focus us on their new SERP and their new Delicious search tools and fresh bookmarks.
Don’t you worry—don’t think for one moment that I, the paragon of journalistic integrity, could be distracted so easily from decrying Yahoo’s abdication of control over its search—ooh, shiny emailing and tweeting tools!
So Delicious does have some cool new stuff to show off—and maybe it’s not just a distraction ploy. Maybe it’s a ploy to remind us that Yahoo can still do cool new stuff. 
Anyway, Delicious has a new search tool to help its users find bookmarks (theirs and others’) more easily. Yahoo says “with advanced timeline and tag filtering controls so that you can search within a given date range or filter the results by tag. We’ve also enhanced the search results page to display rich content including YouTube videos with inline playback, Flickr images, and Yelp local data when applicable.”
Delicious has also added a feature to highlight new and popular bookmarks—but not on the Delicious site. The Fresh Bookmarks tab on the homepage features up-and-coming bookmarks (gee, no other social site has ever done that )—the bookmarks that are most popular on Twitter (as opposed to the most popular bookmarks on Delicious, which are under the Popular Bookmarks tab).
On this new feature yesterday, the Delicious blog quotes Wired, who touted the predecessor app, TweetNews, as possibly “the best mashup we’ve ever seen.” Hopefully the Delicious version gets the same positive reception.
Finally, Delicious also added more social features to the add bookmark page. You can add recipients in the Send field—and get the option to email or even tweet bookmarks.
Delicious looks to be doing a good job of adapting to the most popular social site with the media today, instead of decrying Twitter as a poor man’s competitor.
What do you think? Will these new features be enough to keep Delicious users happy—and relying on Delicious? Or does this just push more users toward Twitter?
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Yahoo: Pay No Attention to the 10 Year Search Deal: Look at What’s New on Delicious!
