This morning I had discovered something that I found a little interesting, a domain for sale lander on Phishing.com . The domain name is under control by domain name registrar Mark Monitor with the generic whois data of “Matt Serlin” and DNStination Inc.  which is often the name used when the company buys a domain for a client.

Phishing.com was a simple parked page with Bodis.com, prior to changing to the current Mark Monitor landing page in the screenshot below.… Read the rest

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Twitter has registered several “Buy Now” related domain names in what appears to be a move towards in tweet shopping!

Some of the newly registered domain names from Twitter that I could find, include:

tweetbuyitnow.com
tweetbuynow.com
twitterbuyitnow.com
twitterbuynow.com
vinebuyitnow.com
vinebuynow.com

Several reports started popping up yesterday that people were seeing “Buy Now” buttons in some tweets via mobile as reported by several sites like Recode.net and more.

twitter-buy-now

With the newly registered domains by Twitter and seeing several Buy Now buttons … Read the rest

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Firefly Mobile is a mobile phone company that is focused at kids in the age of 5-12 years old and provides a real mobile phone with simple functions and according to CrunchBase has about $43 million in funding.

Well, one thing that has vanished, is its website. I had noticed a DNS change from DYN.com managed DNS to a generic DNS at GoDaddy. This could have been done simply by mistake but it’s not easy to accidentally just change DNS. … Read the rest

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Here is something that I found pretty interesting while digging around this morning. I had noticed the domain name Anchor.org, which very likely sold at BuyDomains.com and has transferred to a new owner. I wasn’t able to find a sales price btw, but while doing the research on the domain, I ran into something that was surprising to me.

When I did a whois search at DomainTools for Anchor.org, the domain did NOT have Privacy on it? Whois Privacy … Read the rest

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