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Nathan Hammond
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Nathan Hammond writes nathan hammond, a personal blog at nathanhammond.com about programming, web and culture. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post as a source on Name.com, describing its ad display on unconfigured subdomains, which the company keeps revenue from, and its terms that put content legality on the domain owner.
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My personal blog following my adventures in life and technology.
Most-linked posts?
- Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-04-13
What Hacker News says?
Name.com is pretty evil too. They opt you in to a "service" that displays ads from your domain (where they keep the revenue, of course), and say that you are responsible for ensuring that the content is legal See http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...
Comment linking /namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar
on “Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever”Submitted Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar as a story · 95 points
HN discussionName.com is pretty bad too http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg... Basically: They opt customers in to a "service" where they show ads on any subdomain they haven't setup a DNS record for. Name.com keeps all the money, but the TOS says that you are responsible for making sure that they content that they choose to display on your domain is legal .
Comment linking /namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar
on “Desperation: Go Daddy calling customers, begging them to stay”Submitted Abusing Facebook's "Publicly Available Information" as a story · 20 points
HN discussionThis type of attack has been possible for years, but wasn't really replicating until the advent of social networking. Here is the bug I filed with Mozilla the first time I saw this type of attack in the wild: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=527530 There is a lot of interesting discussion in the thread, and Brendan Eich shows up to throw up his two cents in as well. Also, here is my blog post discussing…
Comment linking /social-engineering-issue-with-javascript-urls
on “Self-XSS attack explained”Submitted Dear Santa Steve (Jobs) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBe sure to check your DNS setup. Ensure that asdf.yourdomain.com is not redirecting to one of their ad pages. Full story here: http://nathanhammond.com/namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-reg...
Comment linking /namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar
on “Bots are crawling new domain registrations and namesquatting Twitter handles”Submitted Name.com: Another Unscrupulous Registrar as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've used Name.com for years. Their interface is clean and they offer domain privacy for free when using their coupon.[1] Unfortunately, I wouldn't describe the company as trustworthy for two reasons. First, Name.com was hacked[2] in May of 2013 and they weren't transparent about it. I learned more about the hack from the attackers[3] than Name.com. Second, Name.com displays advertisements on parked domains for whic…
Comment linking /namedotcom-another-unscrupulous-registrar
on “Ask HN: What are some trustworthy Domain Registrars?”Submitted On Digital Identity, Technology Dependents, and Death as a story · 3 points
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