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Hi, This is John Berryhill posting on behalf of Dan Brown. If you have been in contact with Dan after the end of January 2012, could you please comment on this post or get in touch with me? In particular, please let me know whether you received any communications from Dan Brown prior to January

'Anonymous' now claim's to have access to the servers of ~ YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, U.N., US Bank and many more. Claim's if demands are not met in 72 hours, they will take them all down.

Three well done articles by Torrent Freak ~ takes a look at how MegaUpload was/is being taken down.

The official SOPA/Protect IP blackout is set,major websites as well as many smaller websites are participating...

While the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to dominate the news, the people responsible for the bill continue to break their own rules...

The Senate is threatening to pass its version of the Internet censorship bill ~ The Protect IP Act ~ Please "TWEET' the Senate leadership easily here, to ask them to kill the legislation...

According to a Press Release today, pre-bidding for the premium and low and no reserve live domain name auction is now open for DomainFest 2012...

Google ~ Yahoo ~ Amazon ~ eBay ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ are said to be considering the so-called ?nuclear option" in protest of SOPA and Protect IP acts...

Wyden says two proposals, including SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, goes too far...

According to Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com ,Google+ Growth is accelerating and has passed 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day. Prediction: 400 million users by end of 2012.

We?re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.

A few days ago thousands of customers turned against domain registrar GoDaddy for their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)...

SOPA is turning into a 'SOPA Opera' for the domain name registrar giant Go Daddy, As boycotting and the call for people to transfer their domain names to other domain registrars hits a new level.

This Web clinic replay takes the past year in online marketing research and condenses it into four tactics you can take away and apply to your marketing in 2012. No 'Guru Fluff' here, these folks are the real deal when it comes to everything that is Internet Marketing.

A few days ago we reported that no less than 6 IP-addresses registered to the RIAA had been busted for downloading copyrighted material. Quite a shocker to everyone...

Tomorrow's scheduled resumption of the Judiciary Committee SOPA markup has been canceled. This is due to the fact that House members are leaving DC following today's vote to request a conference on the tax reduction extenders bill.

This report presents a summary of data and findings about the state of Federal websites, collected as part of the .gov Reform Initiative. The report is intended to highlight?for the first time?the size and scope of websites in the Federal Executive Branch, how agencies are managing them, and opportunities for improvement.

Anti-Sopa Video by John "TotalBiscuit" Bain is a UK Law graduate, professional gaming commentator and journalist. Uploaded to YouTube on Dec 17, 20011 and already has well over 700K views...

Breaking News: Dec 16 2011 ~ 10:30 pm PST ~ According to Issa's Twitter feed [twitter.com]...The next hearing is scheduled for Wednesday Dec. 21 at 9:00 am EST. Looks like Hollywood wants to try and 'slam dunk' this before Christmas...

"Unfortunately, the amendments to SOPA do not resolve the fundamental flaws in this legislation; the bill will still undermine cybersecurity including the robust implementation of DNS Security Extensions, known more commonly as DNSSEC'...

Almighty Domains scanned 3 letter .XXX domains (over 18,000 of them) and filtered them so they got some of the better ones that were still available. Here is a list of some very nice ones still available.

Congress Is Boring And Dumb. The Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on SOPA as we write. You can watch it over here if that sort of thing gets you going....

The House Judiciary Committee will likely pass the Stop Online Piracy Act THIS Thursday. Once the bill moves out of committee, the House can pass it at any time. BUT, if we're able to kill it at this stage it'll probably never recover...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that it has sold marketingland.com to Third Door Media, Inc. The company is leveraging the domain name to launch a new internet marketing news site that will provide marketers with informative and timely digital marketing covera...

OPEN Act, "The Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade" provides a narrow and sensible alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act, bills pending in the House and Senate respectively. OPEN's sponsors expect to introduce the legislation in both houses within a week. Wyden and Issa are calling for public collabo...

Just over a year ago, Homeland Security?s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized dozens of domain names as part of Operation in Our Sites. The lawyer for one of them, music blog Dajaz1, has been furiously trying to find out about the site?s case and now, after a year of smoke, mirrors and stonewalling, the Feds have done the previously un...

Frank Schilling Of Name Administration Inc, Owner of DomainNameSales.com Has done a very impressive Re-design of the website. Take a look when you get a chance, I think everyone will love the look and features.

"eReal Estate Holdings, LLC, owner and operator of Condo.com, Houses.com, and Property.com - three leading online real estate portals, today announced the acquisition of the category domain name Location.com"...

Homeland Security?s ICE unit has started the ninth phase of Operation In Our Sites. Following on from last week?s action targeting online shops selling counterfeit goods, US authorities have just seized the domain names of 11 Korean movie download portals. For the first time since the seizures began the banner has been updated to include Korean lan...

A trio of organizations representing the movie, cinema and TV industries have gone to court in France in an attempt to force Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and the country?s ISPs to block several streaming sites. The groups, which represent hundreds of video-related companies such as Paramount and Sony, want streaming sites blocked to Internet subscriber...

The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 ("PRO-IP Act of 2008", H.R. 4279), is a United States law that increases both civil and criminal penalties for trademark, patent and copyright infringement.The law also establishes a new executive branch office, the Office of the United States Intellectual Property En...

In a article today by Nate Anderson in ars technica points out..."after a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based ...

General Cannabis, Inc. (OTCBB: CANA), (OTCQX: CANA), a technology-based Internet marketing services company, today announced that WeedMaps Media, Inc. has acquired the domain name Marijuana.com.

In an article in ZDNet today, writer Zack Whittaker provides some very interesting information about the US trying to extradite a 23-year-old student Richard O?Dwyer, over his TV-Shack website which allegedly offered links ~ not content itself ~ to unlicensed streams of television programs and Hollywood films elsewhere on the web.

US authorities have initiated the largest round of domain name seizures yet as part of their continued crackdown on counterfeit and piracy-related websites. With just a few days to go until ?Cyber Monday? more than 100 domain names have been taken over by the feds to protect the commercial interests of US companies...

23 November 2011, By: Jim Killock ~ Nominet has to date been suspending domain names at the mere request of law enforcement in a variety of cases. The full details of these suspensions have not been released: rather, some summary information has been provided orally giving an indication of the volumes and the nature of the offences. We are asking N...

Mount Laurel, NJ (PRWEB) November 23, 2011~ WebiMax Vice President of Digital Strategy, Todd Bailey, announced Google is expected to release an update to their Panda Algorithm in the coming weeks.

"Danno's Take"~ For November 18, 2011 ~ Today I am going to try and point out a few observations about the House Bill (SOPA) & the Senate Version (IP Act 2011) and how Individual domain asset holders and part of the domain industry...could just become 'Collateral Damage'.