Amazon.com is indestructible – Brushes off Wikileaks.org attack Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 10:46:15 AM Last week pro-Wikileaks.org hacktivists, Anonymous, threatened a DDoS attack on Amazon that never eventually happen. Well, actually it did happen, just not the way Anonymous had hoped. The organisation learnt the hard way just how indestructible the Amazon servers are, admitting themselves via Twitter.com that they “do not have enough forces” to take the site down.

An image showing one of Netcraft’s performance charts for the MasterCard website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report published by Internet research organization Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) another attack against the credit card company by Anonymous, the nebulous association of internet users behind the “Operation: Payback” attacks managed to take its website offline Sunday. The first attack, which took place last Wednesday , succeeded in disrupting the performance of MasterCard’s payment processing systems, along with those of Visa and PayPal

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to a report published by Internet research organization Netcraft ( www.netcraft.com ) another attack against the credit card company by Anonymous, the nebulous association of internet users behind the “Operation: Payback” attacks managed to take its website offline Sunday. The first attack, which took place last Wednesday , succeeded in disrupting the performance of MasterCard’s payment processing systems, along with those of Visa and PayPal. Netcraft says consumers reported problems using credit cards online, and businesses reported a disruption in trade.

Amazon blames hardware – not hackers – for European outage Anonymous denies Grinch-style attack on Xmas shoppers By John Leyden • Get more from this author Posted in Enterprise Security , 13th December 2010 10:50 GMT Free whitepaper – The Register Guide to Enterprise Virtualization Problems with Amazon’s systems in Europe over the weekend were down to hardware failure rather than hackers, the e-commerce giant said on Sunday. Christmas shoppers trying to complete purchases from Amazon’s online stores in the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Italy were locked out for around half an hour on Sunday

Hyphenated domains are getting quite a lot of press these days. Not only are they popular with the search engines, but they cost a fraction of their non hyphenated brethren. Price increases look to be on the cards as investors and developers realise that type in traffic is going the way of the dodo and keyword domains (whether they are hyphenated or not) – get a great deal of weight in search engine ranking factors

With Frank Schilling’s recent post predicting “ most high quality name traffic will leave it’s present PPC deal looking for something better “ and a conference on domain development happening this week, we found the topic of our latest guest blogger perfectly fitting.   – Adam Strong , DNN editor Mass development is the most recent trend in monetizing domain names, and it is being hailed as a successful, scalable alternative to parking

Over 100 proposals have been publicly announced for when ICANN begins taking applications for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) according to statistics compiled by Adrenaline TLD, themselves likely applicants for a number of sporting-related gTLDs such as .SKI, .BIKE and .SURF. The proposals are dominated by geographical and specialty strings and these make up 87 of the 104 possibilities and do not include internationalise domain name extensions. There are also duplicates with more than one applicant at this stage for several gTLDs including .GAY, .SPORT and .ECO.