Death Threats via a DDOS Attack

Hi all, Some of you may or may not be aware that for the last 10 days my blog, Whizzbangsblog.com, has been down due to a consistent DDOS attack. The reason for the attack was directly due to my articles on people that are committing fraud in the domain industry by pumping bad traffic through domains, purchasing parking accounts and stealing good domain owner’s identities. This behaviour is rampant and is costing us all millions of dollars.

Initially the fraudsters struck at my blog and then moved the DDOS to my company (which is OK BTW), to michaelgilmour.com and now finally back to whizzbangsblog.com. They have been communicating to me via the referral URL which in the last instance was the following:

173.245.53.77 – - [06/Sep/2011:00:13:51 +1000] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 316 “http://lastwarning-shutdown-yourblog-or-die-withyourparklogic.com/” “Mozilla/5.0(compatible;MSIE 8.0;Windows NT 6.0;InfoPath.1;.NET CLR 3.0.04506.648;.NET CLR 2.0.50727)”

It’s the first time in my life I received such a threat and upon speaking with the police they indicated that I should take it seriously. I have now contacted CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) in both the USA and Australia, Victorian Police, Federal Police, FBI (still trying to find the right person) and I have now been told by the police to contact the Secret Service Cyber-crime area in Washington.

In one of my blogs I posted an email that had been circulating that related to purchasing parking accounts and the response was incredible. Many domainers didn’t know about this activity and why it was bad for their reputation and the industry they operate in. My guess is that many of them stopped selling accounts and this has caused the fraudsters some problems…..hence the DDOS.

Our industry is under threat from unscrupulous scumbags and I have no intention in bowing down to threats like this. I do not negotiate with terrorists that hijack an industry that I love and steal from friends that I greatly respect. I would ask this of my fellow domainers. Please support me in exposing these people and feel free to publish this article – get it off my server ASAP. It will mean a brave stand and I will not feel any ill will for those of you who do not feel you are able to fight this fight.

I will keep posting here as long as possible in the meantime you can see me updating facebook.

Warmest Regards,

Michael Gilmour

Guest Article, written Seot 8, 2011

Overstock.com is rebranding itself as O.CO

Found this on the Overstock.com website this morning. It’s also Super Bowl Sunday, so perhaps not just a coincidence since the .CO extension domain names will be strongly marketed in today’s Super Bowl commercials, making Overstock.com’s announcement real good timing in that regard.

“Shopping at Overstock.com internationally is about to get easier with the O.co domain. Since the company acquired the O.co domain name in July 2010, Overstock.com has been simpler to access by mobile Internet users. Now, to minimize confusion and hassle while translating the word “Overstock” into other languages, Overstock.com is rebranding internationally and will be known as O.co as of Jan. 2011. This guide will address any concerns you may have about Overstock.com’s new domain.

Q. Why will Overstock.com be known as O.co internationally?

A. In July 2010, .co domain names became available for general purchase, and Overstock.com acquired the O.co domain name in order to reinforce the “O” of the Overstock brand and capture customers’ attention with a short, memorable web address. The short .co domain will also solve translation issues and allow Overstock.com to create a universal logo, brand and web domain name that will be recognizable internationally…”

Click the Overtstock.com® woman on the couch picture below to visit the new O.co® website:

Wellness and Health should be a 2011 goal

Regular walking and other low intensity exercise is excellent for ongoing Wellness and Health, Fitness, Dieting & Weight-loss, plus Longevity & just plain Feeling Good. Get health-care, disease symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cures from America’s Health Site & Wellness Organization.

Make Health and Wellness your personal health goal for the year 2011 and beyond.

Go-Here for Wellness & Health website

Naturopathic Medicine About Body’s Healing Ability

We have just developed a new (small) website regarding Naturopathic Medical School and natural medicine, alternative medicine source regarding natural healing resources and the body’s amazing ability to heal itself.

The philosophical and methodological basis of naturopathy medicine principles are sometimes in somewhat of a conflict with traditional medicine, many traditional doctor’s and medical viewpoints.

For example, many naturopathic practitioners are non-vaccine and non-prescription drug based believers, a result of the natural healing philosophy, which shaped the profession from its beginnings.

Domain Name News & Domain Blog Aggregator

Keep up-to-date with the latest and best domaining news & blog headlines. DomainingRoulette.com is a 24X7 Real-Time Domain Name News Feed and Blog Aggregator, offering live late-breaking domain name news from the international domain and website community.

There is no membership requirement, no account required, no login, no need for personal information, no advertising and no spams.

By visiting DomainingRoulette.com you can quickly view and read the most current headlines and blog articles. As far as we know, DomainingRoulette.com is the only domain name blog and news aggregator without any advertising on its pages. That way the visitor experience is a good one and is unblurred by distracting or confusing marketing and advertising.

Domaining Bloggers are also wanted. Please Submit Your RSS Feed now…

Family Financial Expert & Personal Finance Advisor

What with the very tough economy and hard times so many are enduring there is a greater need for a family financial expert to help your family finances. Personal financial solutions need to be easily implemented, free and also simple. Falling into debt is something most of us manage to do very well. In fact, we are experts at it, especially in the past when consumer credit and stated income or no-doc mortgage loans were readily available.

The fact is the major credit card companies, mortgage lenders and banks have become real leery of extending credit over the past few years. As a result, your credit bureau report and FICO credit score likely declined. In addition, you may have lost much of your old spending power but don’t despair as that may actually be a blessing in disguise if you can get established on a mostly cash basis and use debit cards more often vs credit cards.

Try real hard to stop living pay-day to pay-day and sometimes needing short term loans or credit card cash advances, and especially avoid the incredible high interest rate payday loans. However, if you fall into that credit trap at least seek out a good family financial expert and advisor, as soon as possible. The advisor may be able to also help-out as far as a mortgage loan modification is concerned, though that’s not easily done. In the meantime, try to avoid drowning under a mountain of bills!

Please pay a visit to Family Financial Expert website for additional information about investing and debts.

Domain Inquiry Sounds Better vs Domain For Sale

There has been talk on the forum boards about the best way to place a notice on your website that your domain name is for sale. Fabulous.com does a good job combining PPC ads with a domain for sale announcement page and developed a type of hybrid between a parked page and a sales page. With that said, ‘This Domain Name is For Sale’ notice does a fairly good job of getting people to make offers, but there appears to be a better way.

That Fabulous page is a good approach but I would like it even more if the banner said “Domain Inquiry” since I believe “This Domain Name is For Sale” notice will detract from the the visitor experience and potential visits to your advertisers (at least to to a degree) since the page may have has less crediblity due to the site/domain being offered for sale. The words “Domain Inquiry” has a less obvious negative meaning to a web-surfer, imo.

Any reviews, comments or ideas you have about how to effectively and professionally sell Internet domain names or websites would be appreciated. Thank you.

Follow Me on Twitter can have Interesting Benefits

Unfortunately, I was a late-starter with twitter.com since I did not really start using it until earlier this year, and even more recently started doing more than occasional tweets.

In the past I did not fully realize the great power and potential of Twitter. Twitter is also an extremely interesting way to get some free publicity for your websites or web-pages, in addition to its main purpose which I think (but not positive) is simply talking about news events, or saying what you are doing today, or what you have done lately.

Some recently discovered hands-on marketing advice I can give you is that it’s probably best if you extracted some interesting and helpful content from your web site and posted it as a tweet, instead of simply announcing your site and posting a link to the URL.

More advice is that you post to your Facebook page a link to your Twitter account so people can start following you and also put up a graphical link to Twitter on any relevant websites you have access to, similar to the Follow-Me-on-Twitter image below.

One more thing is I ask you to please go to @webtrading or click-on the picture below to Follow-Me-on-Twitter now. Thank you!

Warren Buffet recommends Index Equity Funds

One more web site (a small site so far) is now online. However, we need more relevant site content for http://indexequityfunds.com/ – We are looking for index funds, annuity, investing, options and stock trading personal feedback to expand the IndexEquityFunds.com web site. If you or someone you know can make some good and relevant content (which does not need to be professionally written) we can add to the site (with credit to the author and a link -if wanted). Your assistance will be appreciated.

Index Equity Funds are an excellent way to invest for the long-term. Warren Buffet talked about index equity funds on a recent Today Show interview with Matt Lauer. We have that segment of the “Today Show” interview located at our indexequityfund.com web site, found about 1/3 of the way down the main-page. You can visit our new website by going to Index Equity Funds now, or clicking-on the image below. Thank you.

Antioxidant Vitamin Therapy new web site

We just released a new website regarding Antioxidant Vitamin Therapy which subject is rapidly gaining populariy for those wishing to keep a younger and achieve a healthier look.

The new site can be accessed by clicking-0n the girls photo below. Comments about the site are welcome…

Yahoo! buys Me.Me domain but is it smart of them?

Yahoo has just announced they have purchased the Me.me domain for a Twitter-Like Microblogging Site. Yahoo is apparently still going full-force with its Twitter competitor, Yahoo Meme. Yahoo has now bought up the clever domain name, Me.me, from the .ME domain registry, which is based in the country of Montenegro. No word on how much Yahoo paid for me.me domain name.

Yahoo calls the purchase “an essential component of our online branding strategy.” The buy suggests Yahoo is readying a wider roll-out of the service, which has not been advertised widely. On Meme, users may write short entries and add photos or videos to their pages, which are called “memes;” users can “follow” other memes and track entries from those pages via a dashboard.

The domain Me.me in our opinion is a dumb domain name and indicates how Yahoo! is alleged to be far from sharp or smart. Another example of Yahoo’s lack of success is the multi-year beta-testing of the Yahoo Publishing Network and its sudden closing at end of April.

To further demonstrate how allegedly dumb YPN was last year YPN called and emailed us to take down our access to their keyword ad targeting tool. They refused to say why other than saying they did not like the way we were using it. That was onviously BS since we used the tool exactly as intended to target ads about the subject of the site and domain and never wrongly deviated from its correct use.

YPN allegedly really did not have sufficient ad inventory in some important categories we were targeting so they allegedly did not truly desire the ad tool to be used correctly by us since that in-effect prevented them from running non-targeted ads. We believe they had inventory of non-important keyword ads such as dating, games and cell phones, etc., for example, but alleged low inventory in hgher paying categories such as financials, credit, trading and health for example, for which we were using the ad tool successfully (as they had in fact intended) until they took it away from us.

Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) is Shutting Down

Just received email from Yahoo announcing they are shutting down Yahoo Publisher Network by the end of April 2010.

Not really too surprising since it never did very well for many publishers compared to Google Adsense and never got out of Beta after several years in beta.

Some of their policies were also odd such as when they both emailed and called making us stop using the YPN Ad Targeting Tool where I was able to accurately target YPN ads to the right category based on both the domain name and site content.

The representative we spoke to said YPN did not like the way I was using it (but gave no real explanation after asking her for the reason many times) even though I was usng the ad targeting tool exactly as intended with 100% genuine ad targeting.

Funny thing is I always suspected YPN actually did not truly want completely accurate ad targeting since YPN allegedly had limited ad inventory in several important or niche categories. However, the ad targeting tool forced those ads where there may have been low inventory. Now I am thinking my guess about that was actually correct. LOL.

Newly Developed Family Child Center Website

This week we completed a new small web site about child-care and family child care centers. Getting good and responsible child care for your kids is very important to both the children and parents.

By the way, we need more content for this new website. Do you have anything to contribute about child care, kids, rasing kids, children’s entertainmen, etc, (possibly family experience with childcare) that we could publish on the site for everyone’s benefit?

A content contribution would be greatly appreciated. If you choose to contribute some general knowledge to the site it does not need to be professionally written. Either long or short is ok. You name may be used or not published if you wish.

You can review the new site by clicking-on the image:

Can Alzheimer’s be Prevented or Less Severe?

We just finished a new small website about alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Alzheimer’s is both a very serious and sad medical condition which dementia can even cause your closest friends and relatives to not reognize you, as the condition becomes worse.

An aspirin regimen to help Alzheiner’s is a little known and rarely discussed health and wellness subject. We personally believe a low-dose baby aspirin regimen can in our opinion help stop alzheimer’s disease onset and also perhaps lessen its severity (or even reverse the condition) once alzheimer’s is underway.

A reason we say that is based on both personal experience with a long-term aspirin regimen combined with lots of research about low dose aspirin therapy and its great potential health benefits.

More information is at the new site Moderate Alzheimers.com

By the way, we need more content for that website. Do you have anything about Alzheimer’s prevention, cures or treatment options (or possibly a family experience with dementia) we could republish on the site for everyone’s benefit? A content contribution would be greatly appreciated.

Natural Healing Institute Naturopathy Medicine

Just completed one more small website about natural healing. Natural and alternative medicine therapy medical health practice is gettng more popular compared to traditional medicine, which usually relies more on drugs and fighting disease vs disease prevention as is the case with natural healing.

The new site is located here: Natural Healing Institute

Any comments are welcome. In addition I am actively looking for more site content so if you have something to contribute or know of any alternative medicine articles or healing tips as far as natural healh and natural healing remedies are concerened it would be most appreciated if you can post them so I can add your contribution to the new web site. Thanks.

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