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  1. Striking Amen Workers Blog for Their Jobs

    Striking workers at the Amen web hosting operation in France are using a weblog to air their grievances and try to gain a seat at the table as the business is sold to a new owner. Amen is part of cash-strapped VIA Networks, which last week agreed to a sale to UK provider Claranet to head off a liquidity crisis. But employees at Amen, which was bought by VIA last January, say they and their managers have been excluded from discussions about the sale and given no information about their fate, and gone on strike in protest.

    The Amen on Strike blog, housed offsite at French host Nerim, details the Amen staffer's grievances over their treatment and ongoing efforts to meet with executives at VIA Networks to discuss their future. The amenengreve.info domain name was obtained through the proxy registration service at Network Solutions, which keeps the owner's name and address private.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 22nd April, 2005 in Hosting Share

  2. Papal Domains for Auction on eBay, Sedo

    It didn't take long for popesquatters to try and cash in on domains related to the new pope, Benedict XVI. The PopeBenedictXVI.com domain is for sale on eBay, with a starting price listed at $100,000, and a "buy it now" price of just $250,000. The domain owner is Total Interest Ltd., a Bahamas-based domain company that grabbed the name in February.

    Other variations on the papal name taken by former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger are being auctioned at Sedo, where popesquatters Chris and Linda Dunaway of Gatlinsburg, Tenn. are offering an entire portfolio of Benedictine domains, including PopeBenedict.net, PopeBenedict.org, PopeBenedictXVI.net, Pope Benedict.info and PopeBenedictXVI.info.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 20th April, 2005 in Domains Share

  3. DDoS Attacks Target Final Fantasy XI

    Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on The Final Fantasy XI virtual world have caused extended downtime within the past week, according to game publisher Square Enix. The attacks, which began April 9, raise the prospect that online games may be emerging as a new target for "DDoS blackmail" schemes.

    "Recent technical difficulties with our PlayOnline server are due to a DDoS from anonymous third parties," Square Enix said in a message to users. "We have determined that this activity was undertaken with malicious intent and specifically targeted our network." The company said it has been working with law enforcement officials in the US, Japan and Europe, but has not yet isolated the source of the DDoS. "Attack methods have varied, which has caused a more time-consuming review of our network protection," Square Enix reported.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 19th April, 2005 in Security Share

  4. Vulnerability in CVS Software is Patched

    Serious vulnerabilities have been found in Concurrent Versions System, a source code maintenance system used by many open source development projects. The security holes, which could allow a remote compromise of unpatched servers, are addressed in a security update from the CVS development team.

    Version 1.12.2 of CVS fixes a potentially serious buffer overflow. "An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a Denial of Service or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the CVS pserver or the authenticated user," warned an advisory from Gentoo Linux, posted on the BugTraq list.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 19th April, 2005 in Security Share

  5. ‘Popesquatting’ Seen on Potential Papal Domains

    While Internet betting sites set odds on the identity of the next pope, domain speculators are buying up domains connected to names that might be adopted by the new Catholic leader. Blogger and technology author Rogers Cadenhead admitted to participating in "popesquatting" potential papal domains. "My money's on one of these six names - BenedictXVI, Clement XV, Innocent XIV, Leo XIV, Paul VII, Pius XIII," Cadenhead wrote on his blog. "I mean this literally. I registered all six of these as dot-com domain names earlier this month, which I feared was tacky - to say nothing of soul-imperiling - until I read about the vacant papal see stamp. Clearly I'm not the only baptized Catholic who gets geeked about this process."

    Cadenhead has plenty of company. PopeBenedict16.com is already for sale on the domain auction site Sedo. But speculators who are just now thinking about papal names are arriving late to the game. The JohnPaulIII.com domain was registered in 1999 while JohnPaulIII.net was bought last November. (more...)

    Posted by Rich Miller on 18th April, 2005 in Domains Share

  6. EV1Servers Becomes ICANN Registrar

    EV1Servers has been approved as an ICANN_accredited domain name registrar, the company said today. The Houston provider was approved for top level domains (TLDs) including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .us. The ICANN approval follows a similar move by The Planet.

    "This is great news - for both EV1 and our customers," says Robert Marsh, the company's CEO and Head Surfer, who is on the mend after undergoing open heart surgery last month. Marsh said the company plans to introduce an enhanced domain registration system with new features including DNS management and URL forwarding, which will be available to both new users and owners of the 200,000 domains EV1 currently manages through its reseller relationship with Tucows/OpenSRS. The company will also offer an integrated reseller interface for domain names, SSL certificates and website builder software.

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    Posted by Rich Miller on 18th April, 2005 in Domains, Hosting Share

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