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Feb. 12, 2008 Post

Here's the The Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry!

Compiled by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)

 

Sedo.com will run a geodomain auction for 7 days starting tomorrow (Feb. 13) at 2pm (U.S. Eastern time). Sedo said they organized a focused auction of “geodomains” and other travel-related names to make them more attainable for buyers while offering a targeted buyer base to domain sellers. The auction will feature Arabia.com, Iran.com, Iraq.com, Glasgow.com and Kosovo.com to name just a few. The full auction list is available here. By the way, if you are a geodomain fan you won't to miss our new February Cover Story on one of the real giants in that category - Dan Pulcrano of Boulevards New Media

Elsewhere TrafficZ.com has sent out an email alert to their customers warning about a phishing email scam being run by someone in China using the typo-domain TrofficZ.com (notice the "o" where the "a" belongs). It is an attempt to trick people into sending them their TrafficZ user ID 

and password. The con artist sent out emails spoofing the email address of TrafficZ personnel. TrafficZ's Sam Aidun said "The title of these emails usually read “TrafficZ | Domain Termination Notice”. The “notice” states that one of your domains has been deleted from your TrafficZ account and to visit Traffiz.com within 

72 hours or your account will be blocked.  The sender is listed as Deborah Amar, one of our Client Relations Specialists." If the recipient clicked on the link in the email they were taken to a fake TrafficZ site on TrofficZ.com. 

The phony site was no longer resolving when we checked today but this is another reminder to be cautious about clicking links in emails. Phishing used to be targeted primarily toward banks and financial institutions but with the boom in the domain industry some of the better known companies in this space are now in the crosshairs of criminals as well. 

By the way, with the continuing success of the domain business when so many other areas of the economy have hit a rough patch of road, some people are wondering if we could be in another bubble. Only time will answer that question, but there is an extremely entertaining music video at YouTube on the topic now called Here Comes Another Bubble. Check it out, it's hilarious and it has already been viewed by over 190,000 visitors!

(Posted Feb. 12, 2008) 

 

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