Monday, December 26, 2011
GoDaddy blocking domain transfers on purpose
few days ago thousands of customers turned against domain registrar GoDaddy for their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Transfer requests for thousands of domains were started, and even big players such as Wikipedia threatened to move.
In a response, GoDaddy was quick to drop their support for SOPA (but not really), and the company kindly asked customers to come back.
Many customers were nevertheless determined to move to other registrar, but that presented a new problem.
It turns out that GoDaddy is delaying a significant number of the domain transfers for reasons unknown. GoDaddy competitor Namecheap suggests that the transfers are blocked on purpose.
“As many customers have recently complained of transfer issues, we suspect that this competitor is thwarting efforts to transfer domains away from them. Specifically, GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer process. This practice is against ICANN rules,” they write.
http://torrentfreak.com/is-godaddy-blocking-domain-transfers-after-sopa-protest-111226/
New North Korean Leader Ascends to Head of Party
New North Korean Leader Ascends to Head of Party

Wally Santana/Associated Press
Lee Hee-ho, center, the widow of former President Kim
Dae-jung, and the Hyundai-Asan chairwoman, Hyun Jeong-eun, right,
traveled to North Korea on Monday.
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-un, the newly anointed leader of North Korea,
met on Monday with a private delegation of prominent South Koreans, his
first face-to-face encounter with any visitors from the outside world
since assuming the top spot a week ago when his father’s death was
abruptly announced.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/world/asia/new-north-korean-leader-ascends-to-party-leadership.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/world/asia/new-north-korean-leader-ascends-to-party-leadership.html
news you can use dec 26 2011
San Francisco Chronicle - 59 minutes ago
By
DANNY ROBBINS, AP Mike Fuentes / AP Grapevine police investigate the
scene where they found seven people dead outside Dallas in Grapevine,
Texas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
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CBS News - 1 hour ago
The
house in Stamford, Conn. where an early morning fire left five people
dead Dec. 25, 2011. The house's owner survived, but lost both her
parents and 3 children in the blaze.
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Written by
SlashGear - 59 minutes ago
Sony
will sell its shares in the LCD panel joint-venture S-LCD to partner
Samsung, the two companies have announced, in a deal worth $940m, as the
Japanese firm struggles to coax profit out of its TV line.
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BusinessWeek - 34 minutes ago
By
Vincent Nwanma and Gbenga Akingbule Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The US
promised to help Nigeria find those responsible for a wave of Christmas
Day bombings that killed dozens in the oil-rich African nation.
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The Seattle Times - 1 hour ago
An
interview with Rooney Mara, star of the English-language version of
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." By Steven Rea CLAUDIO BRESCIANI /
SCANPIX / AP "... I don't think you can really understand the character
until you can understand Sweden a little ...
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BBC News - 40 minutes ago
South
Korea's former First Lady Lee Hee-ho has met the North's designated new
leader Kim Jong-un during a trip to Pyongyang, Seoul officials say.
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USA TODAY - 1 hour ago
BAGHDAD
(AP) - A suicide bomber set off a car bomb Monday at a checkpoint
leading to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, killing seven people and
injuring 32 others, officials said.
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msnbc.com - 1 hour ago
Pakistan's
former cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan brought at least 100000
people into the streets of Karachi on Sunday in a massive rally that
increases pressure on the civilian government and cements his standing
as a political force.
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San Francisco Chronicle - 6 hours ago
AP
Pope Benedict XVI delivers his annual "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas message
to crowds of the faithful from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at
the Vatican.
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Voice of America - 59 minutes ago
December
26, 2011 China, Japan Urge Stability on Korean Peninsula Stephanie Ho |
Beijing The leaders of China and Japan have reaffirmed their commitment
to stability on the Korean peninsula, as Japanese Prime Minister
Yoshihiko Noda Monday ended a ...
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USA TODAY - 1 hour ago
By
David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama
spent part of Christmas greeting families at a Marine base in Hawaii.
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DesMoinesRegister.com - 23 minutes ago
LAST
LAUGH?: Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul, right, shares a laugh
after meeting Aline Olthafer-Lange and her three-month-old baby
daughter Heidi during a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa on Thursday Dec.
22, 2011.
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CanadianBusiness.com - 6 hours ago
By
AP | December 26, 2011 DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - For more than a decade
they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the
municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the
cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.
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Boston.com - 5 hours ago
ADDS
SECOND SENTENCE - Deer roam atop a berm in a shooting range at the FBI
Academy in Quantico, Va., Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. The 547-acre FBI
Academy, where some of the nation's best marksmen fire off more than 1
million bullets every month, ...
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Chicago Tribune - 8 hours ago
(Updates
with wind-related death north of Seattle) By Karen Brooks AUSTIN,
Texas, Dec 25 (Reuters) - A light dusting of snow in north Texas
delivered a rare white Christmas to this drought-stricken state, but the
majority of the nation was seeing mild ...
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Learning and Finance - Dec 24, 2011
A
batch of positive economic data posted in the US during the latter half
of the trading week which helped to keep indices in the green.
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Sydney Morning Herald - 1 hour ago
The
Boxing Day sales got off to a slow start this year, with short queues
outside the big department stores and plenty of space between the racks
for browsers.
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Written by
SlashGear - 59 minutes ago
LG
has revealed plans to bring a huge 55-inch OLED HDTV to CES 2012 in
January, with the super-slim panel using new OLED technology to deliver
better color quality and response times.
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eWeek - 42 minutes ago
Hackers
posted what they claimed to be personal details of the company's
clients on the information-sharing site Pastebin. The loosely-associated
band of hackers known as Anonymous claims to have targeted the global
intelligence think tank Strategic ...
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CNET - Dec 24, 2011
by
Natalie Weinstein December 24, 2011 3:25 PM PST Domain registrar Go
Daddy lost over 21000 domains yesterday. It could be a coincidence--or
it could be the result of the company's pr debacle over its support for
the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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New York Times - 13 hours ago
How
much is a tweet worth? And how much does a Twitter follower cost? In
base economic terms, the value of individual Twitter updates seems to be
negligible; after all, what is a Twitter post but a few bits of data
sent caroming through the Internet?
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The Hollywood Gossip - 1 hour ago
Often
forgotten during the Mel Gibson-Oksana Grigorieva drama of recent years
was the fact that he and wife Robyn were married, albeit separated, the
whole time.
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Los Angeles Times - 25 minutes ago
Jeremy
Renner, left, Tom Cruise and Brad Bird attend the after party for the
New York premiere of "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
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Washington Post - Dec 24, 2011
PERRYSBURG,
Ohio - Told that his unborn son had only half a heart and little chance
to survive, the lead singer of the Christian rock band Sanctus Real
began pouring his fears and doubts into music.
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SB Nation - 1 hour ago
By
Tom Ziller - NBA Editor Chris Paul and Blake Griffin were hardly
spectacular in the LA Clippers' opening night win over the Golden State
Warriors, but the got the job done.
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San Francisco Chronicle - 59 minutes ago
By
JAIME ARON, AP Sports Writer LM Otero / AP Miami Heat forward LeBron
James (6) dribbles during the second half of an NBA basketball game
against the Dallas Mavericks in Dallas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011.
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CBSSports.com - 52 minutes ago
The
Bulls continue their season-opening road trip with some momentum Monday
night when they visit the Golden State Warriors. While he couldn't get
Chicago past Miami in the Eastern Conference finals, Rose capped an
otherwise spectacular season by ...
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Boston Herald - 15 minutes ago
By
Gary D'Amato / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green
Bay Packers dusted off an old weapon in their arsenal Sunday night:
After catching four passes for 46 yards in the last three games
combined, the fifth-year receiver caught four ...
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Boston Herald - 1 hour ago
By
Al Iannazzone / The Record (Hackensack NJ) NEW YORK -- Carmelo Anthony
spent more than eight minutes in the third quarter on the bench in foul
trouble, watching the old Celtics [team stats] do to the new Knicks what
they did to them eight times last ...
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Forbes - 9 hours ago
WISE,
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has captured a view of a
nebula that looks just like a Christmas wreath. (Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA) Here's another seasonally appropriate find -
perfect for the end of Christmas.
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BBC News - 28 minutes ago
By
Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News This time, a Soyuz-2
vehicle failed to put a communications satellite into orbit after
lifting away from the country's Plesetsk spaceport.
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CTV.ca - Dec 23, 2011
This
scanning electron micrograph view depicts some of the ultrastructural
details displayed by swine-origin H3N2 influenza viruses responsible for
causing illness in Indiana, Maine, Iowa, Pennsylvania and West Virginia
in 2011.
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