DreamHost is damn serious about your privacy; however being a US-based company they are unfortunately required to comply with various information requests from legitimate domestic law enforcement agencies, along with DMCA takedown requests from rights-holders, and requests to remove content from courts processing defamation or invasion of privacy lawsuits. These are however just requests, and DreamHost […]
Category Archives: Internet News
Find A New Domain Name Directly From DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo, the privacy focused search engine, and Namecheap have been working together behind the scenes to allow DuckDuckGo users to search for domain name availability straight from their searchbox. Yesterday both teams finally announced the integration, and there’s a couple ways you can make use of this. Post by Namecheap.com. If you wish to stay […]
Host1Plus Launches Open Source Sponsorship Program
Host1Plus has long been a supporter of open source software such as CentOS, a Linux community contributing to an enterprise level operating system; Chakra, a distribution focused on the latest KDE; and Fedora, a community-driven operating system with a take on leading edge technologies. As of last week however Host1Plus has opened up their sponsorship program to […]
Google Adds 360 Degree Video Support to YouTube
360-degree videography has been picking up steam lately, especially with Google fully supporting and promoting virtual business tours on map listings and place pages. As of this week Google has added yet another tool to the 360-degree video arsenal – full support from Youtube. PC/Mac users utilizing the Google Chrome browser are able to use […]
Google Apps Leaks WHOIS Data For 280,000+ Domain Names
Private data leaks suck, and unfortunately there have been plenty of them over the past few years – and now Google joins the ranks of other companies as the private information regarding the registrations of 280,000 domain names registered via Google Apps has been leaked. Security research group Cisco Talos had noticed a problem that […]
DreamHost Introduces Solid State Drives to Shared Hosting
DreamHost have announced today the introduction of solid state drives to all their shared hosting plans – successfully producing an up-to 200% faster hosting environment! To boot they haven’t changed their pricing or package terms at all – so you still end up paying the same price, with the same unlimited storage and bandwidth, only […]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Released
Red Hat is probably one of the most well known and successful Linux-focused companies, and for good reason; their enterprise-class distro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is rock solid, and more importantly, its support is truly legendary. In-fact the original server that I used for the free hosting services I offered back during the times […]
Upcoming gTLD Domains for March 2015
March brings about some great new domain name extensions. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. March 11th: .coach, .legal, .memorial, .money March 24th: .green
NYC Gets Hit With DDOS Attack
For the duration of last week and up until yesterday a series of hackers have taken down New York City government’s email system. That included basically all government agencies, including the FBI and NYPD, who were unable to send or receive email messages. Commenting on this, Lancope CTO, TK Keanini, said: “Anything connected to the […]
Before You Get Excited About The FCC’s Net Neutrality Decision
February 26th started off as a great day. The US Federal Communications Commission voted in favor of net neutrality. Woot! Right? FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler commented that “no one – whether government or corporate – should control free open access” to the net. Big cable companies (Comcast, for example) cannot charge users more to access a so-called […]
Google Wins Auction for .APP gTLD
Earlier this week on 25 February 2015, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN’s authorized auction service provider, kicked off an auction for a new gTLD: .APP. Twelve applicants participated in the auction for the new .APP domain name with Google Registry (Charleston Road Registry Inc) prevailing with a winning price of $25,001,000. I have attached the auction results […]
Order Your Food from Bing
Bing has launched yet another new feature to their search results – this time making ordering your lunch online that much easier. Simply run a search for your favorite restaurant and if they support online ordering Bing will link directly to their order page.
New gTLDs Coming Out February 2015
February has some great new gTLDs coming out. As usual you can register these new domain names at either Namecheap, 1&1 or GoDaddy. February 10: .work February 11: .delivery, .energy February 17: .yoga, .party, .cricket, .science
New ICANN Transfer Policy For Top Level Domains
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has added a new transfer policy for generic domain names which will now request the registrant who initiates a transfer from one registrar to another to receive and confirm an email from the present registrar regarding their transfer to the new company. In the past you would only […]
Google Officially Launches Mortgage Calculator
Back in December of 2014 I wrote about a custom mortgage calculator many of us have found within our search results. The mortgage calculator has come and went since then – showing for some people and not showing for others. However as of now Google has officially announced the launch of their mortgage calculator – meaning […]
YouTube Now Defaults To HTML5 <video> Instead Of Flash
YouTube has been one of the first adopters of HTML5’s <video> tag. Over 3 years ago I remember being pleasantly surprised when my BlackBerry Bold 9930 was finally able to play embedded YouTube videos thanks to the browsers support for HTML5. Since then I have had my YouTube settings set to default to the HTML5 video […]
NameCheap Announces MoveYourDomainDay 2015
In an effort lasting fight for internet freedom Namecheap has announced the date for their annual MoveYourDomainDay, initially launched in response to GoDaddy’s position on SOPA back in 2011. For every domain transferred or hosting plan purchased, up to 10,000, Namecheap will donate $0.50 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The donation amount goes up to $1.00 per […]
Worst Passwords of 2014 Released
SplashData has published their yearly list of worst passwords showcasing what were some of the worst passwords of 2014. SplashData collected together data about millions of stolen passwords that were posted online and compiled them to form the 2014 list. That being said looking through this list there are some hilariously weak password choices, and clearly Ford Mustang […]
Google Suspends Sales of Google Glass to Focus On Future Glass Versions
Sadly Google has decided to stop sales of the Google Glass project in it’s current form. The Exlorer program that originally allowed someone to buy Google Glass for $1500 is no more; and all units have been pulled so as I write this you unfortunately will not be able to run out and grab a unit. […]
Google Domains Launches Public Beta
Google domains first launched back in August of 2014 and I was lucky enough to get access to the private beta of Google Domains which not only let me enjoy it for myself – but I was lucky enough to have plenty of invites that I shared among all of you. As of Tuesday of […]