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Identity Digital Takes Over Management, Marketing of .AI Domains for Government

January 23, 2025 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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BELLEVUE, WA. - Domain name registrar and registry services provider Identity Digital officially took over the management and marketing last week of the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .AI for the Government of Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean whose ccTLD has gained considerable popularity in recent years with members of the artificial intelligence community. For years the small island country has been reaping a profit from the rising … [Read more...]

Google to Phase Out Call & Chat Reporting on Google My Business Profiles

July 23, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Google to Phase Out Call & Chat Reporting on Google My Business Profiles

WEST PALM BEACH, FL - In a recent announcement Google revealed that it will discontinue the call and chat history features in Google Business Profiles by July 31, 2024. This move appears to be part of a broader effort to streamline Google's services and shift its focus elsewhere. While these changes will affect how businesses interact with their leads, it also presents an opportunity to enhance marketing efforts with proper planning and the right tools. What’s Changing in … [Read more...]

AT&T Discloses Major Data Breach Affecting Approximately 70+ Million Accounts

July 17, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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DALLAS, TX - AT&T recently revealed a cybersecurity incident that exposed call and text message records for a significant portion of its customer base. The breach impacted nearly all of AT&T's cellular customers, along with customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that utilize AT&T's network. Even some landline customers who interacted with AT&T cellular users during the timeframe are included. While the compromised data doesn't contain the … [Read more...]

Data Leak Impacts Snowflake Customers, Including Advanced Auto Parts, LendingTree

June 12, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

BOZEMAN, MT - In a significant data breach, several major companies have been impacted due to vulnerabilities in their Snowflake cloud storage accounts. The breach, which came to light in early June 2024, has affected companies like Advanced Auto Parts and LendingTree, among others. Details of the Breach: The breach involved unauthorized access to Snowflake's cloud storage, leading to the theft of vast amounts of data. The hacker, known by the alias "Sp1d3r," has … [Read more...]

Omni Hotels & Resorts Suffers Breach, Potentially Impacting Millions

April 17, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Omni Hotels & Resorts Suffers Breach, Potentially Impacting Millions

DALLAS, TX - Last month, Omni Hotels & Resorts, a prominent hotel chain, experienced a cybersecurity breach that resulted in the theft of customer information. In an update on their website, Omni confirmed that the stolen data includes customer names, email addresses, postal addresses, and guest loyalty program information. However, financial information and Social Security numbers were not compromised. The breach was detected on March 29, prompting Omni to shut down … [Read more...]

ACE Enforcement Action Reaches Record Levels, Over 3,000 Pirate Domains Seized

February 16, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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LOS ANGELES, CA - The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has stepped up their enforcement actions recently, having seized over 3,000 pirate site domains over the past few weeks. But despite this impressive effort, the number of new and illegal domains constantly taking the place of the ones that have been taken down are never-ending. The domains in question – which revolve around pirating copyrighted video entertainment such as movies and television … [Read more...]

Buyer of Record-Breaking Domain Sale, “Voice.com”, Ordered to Pay $24M SEC Fine

October 9, 2019 By John Colascione 1 Comment

PALM BEACH, FL – On May 30, 2019, the domain name “Voice.com” was sold in a record-breaking all-cash transaction that has officially gone down in the history books as the highest valued domain name sale ever on record when Blockchain company “Block.one” purchased the .com web address from MicroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR) for $30,000,000.00. The sale lit-up the domain industry when it was announced in June of this year in a MicroStrategy press release. Domain … [Read more...]

Half of All U.S. Households Likely Victims of New Data Leak; 80 Million Records Exposed

May 7, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH – A new data leak will likely make victims out of what has been estimated at approximately half of all adults in the United States; 80 million records of those over age 40. This new leak is the cause of an undisclosed company which hosts its database with Microsoft services and the information was freely available on the Internet for those who knew the location of the data, until this week according to Forbes.com's Kate O'Flaherty who contributes as a … [Read more...]

Near $200,000 Missing from “Ordinary” Domain Sales Market, So Far This Year

March 3, 2019 By John Colascione 4 Comments

NEW YORK – There is an old saying “Follow the Money”, popularized by the 1976 drama-documentary motion picture “All the President's Men” which was about the Watergate scandal (I’ve yet to see the movie, but plan to). However, in this case, I prefer not to follow the money, because it looks like it's disappearing into a region of space-time; one exhibiting strong gravitational effects that nothing - not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light can escape … [Read more...]

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Earlier today, I found myself browsing the MediaOptions website after being referred there by a YouTube video that mentioned the company and spotlighted one of their domain … [Read More...]

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Record-Breaking Data Leak Exposes 16 Billion Credentials Including Session Tokens

WEST PALM BEACH, FL - A massive trove of approximately 16 billion username-password combinations—along with session tokens and cookies - has surfaced on unsecured servers, cybersecurity researchers … [Read More...]

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