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Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Underscores China’s Growing Capabilities in Development

January 27, 2025 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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MENLO PARK, CA - DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has rapidly ascended to the top of Apple's App Store charts in the UK, US, and China following its launch on President Donald Trump's inauguration day. This swift rise has raised concerns among tech experts and free-speech advocates, with some labeling it as AI's "Sputnik moment." The application, powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, functions similarly to ChatGPT, generating human-like responses to user prompts. Notably, … [Read more...]

Google’s Search Market Share Dips Below 90% for First Time in Decade

January 15, 2025 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google's global search engine market share fell below 90% in the final quarter of 2024, marking the first time since 2015 that it has dipped under this threshold. Regional Variations: Competitor Gains: During this period, competitors such as Microsoft Bing, Yandex, and Yahoo experienced slight increases in their market shares. Notably, Microsoft Bing maintained a share of around 3.97% in December 2024. Source: StatCounter Global Stats - … [Read more...]

Namecheap Publishes Results Naming Highest TLD, Domain Registrations for 2024

December 19, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Namecheap Publishes Results Naming Highest TLD, National Domain Registrations for 2024

PHOENIX, AZ - One of the most well-known domain registrars in the world, Namecheap, has released the results of a study outlining the highest number of domains registered through its service in the Top-Level Domain (TLD) as well as National Domain categories for the year 2024. Namecheap’s report notes that the most popular TLD registered with the company in 2024, unsurprisingly, was .COM, which took a commanding lead with 3,661,899 registrations. The number two slot ended … [Read more...]

FBI Shutdown Prolific Ransomware Group “Radar/Dispossessor,” Domains Seized

August 15, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The FBI has announced they have shut down a prolific ransomware group known as “Radar/Dispossessor” and seized multiple internet domains and servers utilized by the cyber threat actors, reportedly headed up by an individual known by the code-name “Brain.” As part of the FBI’s enforcement actions, they have dismantled a plethora of servers utilized by Radar/Dispossessor to carry out their ransomware attacks, including three in the United States, … [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...]

World’s Biggest Ransomware Group Shut Down, Domains Seized in Global Operation

February 22, 2024 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

U.S. and U.K. Disrupt LockBit Ransomware Variant

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The operations of infamous ransomware group LockBit have been shut down, their domains seized, and several high-ranking members placed under arrest as the result of a recent digital takedown carried out by an international law enforcement operation. Operation Cronos, the code name of a joint effort made up by agencies representing 11 countries – Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United … [Read more...]

10 Billion Connections to Malicious Domains Blocked by NSA in 2023 via “PDNS”

December 28, 2023 By John Colascione 1 Comment

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Security Agency (NSA) noted that 10 billion user connections to known malicious or suspicious domains were blocked over the course of the past year as part of the agency’s efforts, according to its 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review report released on Tuesday. The NSA‘s annual report is a public account of the agency’s work with government partners, defense industrial base (DIB) entities, and foreign partners to help keep the nation secure, … [Read more...]

Will Coronavirus Create Pandemic Volatility and Effect The Domain Name Industry?

February 27, 2020 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL - According to the CDC, the corona virus, now known as COVID-19, is expected to create a pandemic in the United States very soon. There are already cases in the Boston area which are being closely monitored with some people in quarantine. California has also seen its first case at the LAX airport.  It's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will … [Read more...]

Follow the Money: IRS Takes Down Largest Child Exploit Domain by Tracing Bitcoin

October 19, 2019 By John Colascione 2 Comments

PALM BEACH, FL – The largest child exploitation website on the Internet “Welcome to Video” which, according to GitHub was using a dark-web address of “mt3plrzdiyqf6jim.onion” was seized and/or shut down last week resulting in over 300 arrests. According to the Department of Justice, the service was the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content. Particularly interesting was the way the sites owners were traced as I have been contemplating my first … [Read more...]

What’s Next? Could Eminent Domain Be Used to Steal Your GEO Domain Name?

January 2, 2019 By John Colascione 2 Comments

NEW YORK, NY – This will be a controversial subject for many if not all domain name owners, however, in light of the France.com domain seizure, every Geographic domain name ‘taking’ could be imminent. Sound insane? Read on. While researching how in the world this atrocity could have happened to the owner of France.com, (Jean-Noel Frydman), as a GEO domain name owner, I wanted to research the possibility of this happening to others, myself included. Since I’m in the … [Read more...]

Twitter Needs Pro-Active Feature to Block Unwanted Followers Automatically

July 4, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK, NY – Twitter, one of my favorite social networking websites, lacks an important feature which should be added to the service, preventing users from certain counties following you, automatically. I have no idea why this is not part of the service already. Why is it that there is only a feature to block users, after they have already followed you, creating work and time to do. Why aren’t there any auto-blocking features available, so that you can block users from … [Read more...]

Shortcut to GDPR Preparation for Sites and Services That Do Not Target EU Users

May 19, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK - As you are probably well aware due to the number of emails you are receiving, by next Friday, May 25th, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) will go into full effect. You should be preparing to update your Privacy Policy even if your site does not target EU users. I wanted to share what I have learned so far as I prepare to update some of my United States websites. I urge you to seek out your own advice and council on what to do to bring your … [Read more...]

The Politics of Facebook: Zuckerberg to Testify Before Congressional Lawmakers

April 9, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK – You have to admit that it an amazing time in history when a computer programming entrepreneur must face the United States Government due to his innovative social network becoming one of the most powerful influencer tools in the World. Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday April 10, 2018, Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Marc Zuckerberg will testify before lawmakers in what is expected to be a two-day heavy-hitter grilling on the very serious privacy and … [Read more...]

It’s Here: NamesCon Officially Starts Tomorrow at the Tropicana in Las Vegas

January 27, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

LAS VEGAS, NV – The long anticipated NamesCon event begins tomorrow with its 11:00 am - 11:45 am "Welcome to NamesCon" photo and session. Domain enthusiasts from around the world have begun rolling in since this morning, myself included. The event is taking place at the Tropicana, which is one of the first hotels on the Las Vegas strip located on the east corner of Tropicana Boulevard. Known as the largest Domain Name Conference in the United States (maybe the world), … [Read more...]

Watching Businesses “Begin” with Google

December 19, 2017 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

It’s not always about the money, some entrepreneurs might tell you… It’s about the thrill of making ‘Something’ out of ‘Nothing’.   Cars Digital Inc. - Dealer Lead Generation & Automotive Advertising https://www.carsdigital.com/ Cars Digital Inc. is an automotive subsidiary company of Long Island Media Inc., a certified CDK Global Partner, registered BBB Company and Google Certified Agency. The mission of Cars Digital is to develop proprietary tools and … [Read more...]

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Hypothetically: Inflated Domain Name Valuations Driven by AI Tools

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – I recently tested a domain name valuation tool powered by artificial intelligence, and I was struck by how inflated the appraisals were. The estimated values seemed wildly … [Read More...]

Google’s Search Market Share Dips Below 90% for First Time in Decade

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google's global search engine market share fell below 90% in the final quarter of 2024, marking the first time since 2015 that it has dipped under this threshold. Regional … [Read More...]

Massive Data Breach Exposes 184 Million Login Credentials from Major Tech Platforms

WEST PALM BEACH, FL - A significant data breach has compromised over 184 million login credentials, affecting users of major platforms including Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Microsoft, … [Read More...]

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