Archive for September 18, 2009

Francis Simisim: Why .CN Domain Names’ values will fall slightly, IDN on the rise

Posted on September 18, 2009, 12:09 pm, by IDN News, under Blogs.

Have you invested in .CN Domain Names? Right now, it does seem like it’s a sound and a valuable piece of internet real estate (with 338 million internet users) but situations have changed. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) has recently announced that China Language Domain Names (.中国) will soon be possible… … The [...]

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Scamsters use URL spoofs to evade spam filters

Posted on September 18, 2009, 11:57 am, by IDN News, under Blogs.

In their never-ending pursuit to evade spam filters, malevolent mailers have deployed a number of techniques to obfuscate their true intent. One of those techniques is using facsimiles of legitimate brand names in Web addresses to redirect victims to outlaw Internet sites where the scammers can work their mischief on their targets, a practice called [...]

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