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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...]

Somebody Bought The Entire Country of Portugal And It Only Cost $350,000

November 3, 2021 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Portugal

PALM BEACH, FL – According to a recent report that popped up in my LinkedIn feed, the domain name Portugal.com recently sold through SEDO brokerage and domain sales platform. For those wondering, Portugal is a European country on the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain. It’s population, according to the World Bank, is over 10 million. Many geographic domain names sell based on their overall popularity as travel destinations and largely on population size which helps in … [Read more...]

PII Of Up To 4.6 Million Neiman Marcus Customers Potentially Exposed In Breach

October 2, 2021 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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PALM BEACH, FL - On Thursday, September 30, 2021, luxury department store Neiman Marcus announced that about 4.6 million of its customers may have had their personally identifiable information or PII compromised in a data breach that occurred in May 2020. The personal information stolen in the breach varied and may have included names and contact information, payment card numbers and expiration dates including virtual gift card numbers. Worse, the cyber-thieves may have … [Read more...]

Hyphenated Domain Name Fetches Over $61k In Latest SEDO Weekly Sales Report

April 27, 2021 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Sedo

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The hyphenated domain name “TN-I.com” sold at $61,990 this past week according to the latest SEDO.com weekly domain sales report. The web address is currently parked. I've always avoided hyphenated domains unless the words being used are ordinarily hyphenated or it separates two extremely popular words mostly used together. There are some instances where this works well, but with TN-I, let's just say I'm not a fan of this one. Also … [Read more...]

SEDO Weekly Sales List Includes .io Indian Ocean Domain Sold At Whopping $50,000

March 9, 2021 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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WEST PALM BEACH, FL – The domain name “509.com” sold at $106,500 this past week according to the latest SEDO.com weekly domain sales report. The numeric web address is currently hosting what appears to be a site in the middle of development or using a GoDaddy website builder program. Also notable is the .io domain “swap.io” that sold for a whopping $50,000 and a .club domain “ox.club” which fetched 10,000. The .io is a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) … [Read more...]

Five Letter .COM Tops Sedo.com Weekly Sales List 7/27/2020 – 8/2/2020 at $99K

August 4, 2020 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Hausfinanzierung

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Recently released is Sedo’s weekly sales list, a weekly list of public transactions above $2,000. This weeks highlights included the top .com sold as hiPhi.com  at $99,999 USD, the top ccTLD as Hausfinanzierung.de at 14,000 EUR ($16,517.90 US) and the top other as Gxyjjt.org a at $9,000 USD [will be interesting to see what hiPhi.com is used for]. Here is the entire list for Sedo.com sales from 7/27/2020 – … [Read more...]

Legacy Domain “Movies.net” Premiers In SEDO Weekly Sales List at $45,000

July 14, 2020 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – According to a weekly sales release issued by SEDO domain marketplace and parking provider, the domain name “Movies.net” (parked at Godaddy) has changed hands for the cool sum of $45,000, making it the highest ‘public’ sale of the week. Each week, SEDO releases a list of domain names which have been sold including highlights of .COM, ccTLDs and notable domains in ‘other’ TLD categories. It is nice to see a short “legacy” .net domain name sell … [Read more...]

Call for Donuts to Release Proof of Original “Record Breaking” gTLD Sale in Late 2017

April 13, 2018 By John Colascione 18 Comments

NEW YORK – With another ‘out of the ordinary’ new Generic Domain Name sale publicly announced by Donuts Inc. for Vacation.Rentals (reportedly acquired for $500,300.00 in an all-cash deal) this becomes their second earth-shattering alternative-dot transaction in the last twelve months of which many will agree, appears to be sent straight from the heavens above. In fact, all of their employees should vacate the Kirkland, Washington premises immediately and purchase lottery … [Read more...]

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