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Regions Bank Fails to Renew Domain Name – Web Site Goes Down

Bill Hartzer

Regions Bank , an FDIC insured bank with 1,700 branches and 2,400 ATMs across a 16-state network in the South, Midwest, and Texas, failed to renew their domain name. One of your employees didn’t do their job–they didn’t renew the regions.com domain name. Domain Names'

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Chase Ignores Domain Name Whois Privacy, Sends Credit Card Offers to Web Host

Bill Hartzer

Chase Bank is mining internet domain name whois data in the pursuit of credit card customers. When they encounter whois privacy on a domain name, they are disregarding it and alternatively sending the credit card offers to the domain owners’ web hosting companies.

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Happy birthday.CA

Sherrilynne Starkie

domain was originally assigned to John Demco at the University of British Columbia (UBC) by Jon Postel , operator of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). domain names were registered on January 12, 1988, with the very first one claimed by the University of Prince Edward Island. domain names.

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My Best Blog Posts of 2013

Bill Hartzer

Never Use a Hyphenated Domain Name for Your Website – If you asked me last year about domain names and hyphens, I would not have thought that I would make this post during 2013. Regions Bank Fails to Renew Domain Name – Web Site Goes Down – I love to write about these sorts of things.

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Is Your Blog Draining Your Bank Account? Here’s How Freelance Blogging Could Help

ProBlogger

The post Is Your Blog Draining Your Bank Account? Buying a domain name is relatively cheap – often no more than $10. The post Is Your Blog Draining Your Bank Account? Here’s How Freelance Blogging Could Help appeared first on ProBlogger. Blogging can get expensive pretty fast. You may need hosting.

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Protecting Against Brand-Impersonating Phishing Messages

The Realtime Report

They’re just waiting on the one person willing to bite, and bank on the fact that this will be worth their while. Because the digital world makes it easy to send out hundreds or thousands of messages at once, at virtually no cost to the would-be attacker, a person staging a phishing attack can afford for 99.9% of attempts to fail.

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Even Huge Institutions Can’t Move Their Sites Properly to a New gTLD

Bill Hartzer

As you may already know, I am an advocate of the New gTLD domain names. I am utterly disappointed when Barclays PLC, the huge banking institution in the UK, announced that they were moving away from.COM domains and, in fact, moving to.Barclays domains–but also have duplicate sites up and running.