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Prince of Persia 6 Rumor Confirmed as Fake!
Earlier this month, it was rumored that with a domain name registration, a new Prince of Persia game was set to be announced by Ubisoft. Showing information such as Gandi.net as the registrant and noting Ubisoft’s DNS servers within the code, it did appear somewhat legitimate based on the prior…
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Ubisoft Expected to Announce a New Prince of Persia
It seems remarkable, but it’s been around 10 years now since we last saw an official new installment in the Prince of Persia franchise. Well, 10 years if you do not include the mobile game they released back in 2018 or those (pretty crap) films. In a report via DSOGaming,…
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Domain Registration Hints at Imminent GTA VI Announcement
It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that work on GTA VI is underway and has been for quite some time. In terms of any formal announcements, however, both Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games have been keeping things incredibly quiet! In a report via TechPowerUp, however, some of the more eagle-eyed…
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Toys R Us IP Sale Reveals Adult Domain Names
Toys R Us Intellectual Property Sale Reveals Adult Domain Names Earlier this year we saw the sad demise of one of the most beloved children retails stores. Yes, Toys R Us and Geoffrey the Giraffe sadly left us. There were, of course, many reasons for this which included difficulty competing with…
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Original Staff Brings KickAssTorrents Back to Life
At the height of its popularity, torrent site KickAssTorrents (KAT) was downed back in July this year after its owner was arrested by US law enforcement. While a number of mirrors of the site have popped up in the meantime – some of which have been maliciously collecting user details…
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Spammer Luring Internet Users to Fake Google Domain
A fake Google URL has been fooling people into visiting malicious domains by proliferating pro-Donald Trump spam. The domain, ɢoogle.com, could, at a glance, look like a genuine Google address, but instead of a capital ‘G’ it begins with a similar-looking Unicode character. The site was discovered by The Next…
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TP-Link Routers Exposed After Internet Domains Forgotten
How do you configure a router? Some people like the classic ways of logging into the device via SSH and then configure and change its settings where needed. This works for a few but most prefer to use the graphical user interfaces that people have become accustomed to. This is…
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Tesla Pick up Tesla.com Domain
Often the simplest domain names are the best and unfortunately for Elon Musk, Tesla Motors has had to settle for the teslamotors.com domain instead of the more highly prized tesla.com. The tesla.com domain has been held since 1992 by a Nicola Tesla fan, Stu Grossman, however, it has remained largely…
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How Much Did Google Pay The Guy Who Bought Google.com?
If there’s one that that is integral to the operation of Google.com it is their domain name. Sure, they have .co.uk and a whole host of others from around the world, but owning their own .com is a vital part of their search engine and the hub for the US…
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The Pirate Bay’s “Hydra” Has Been Decapitated
This time last year, The Pirate Bay was all but dead; the Swedish datacentre that hosted the notorious torrent site had been raided by police in December 2014, leaving it offline for many weeks. Days later, shortly before Christmas, the site’s administrators teased the imminent return of The Pirate Bay.…
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The Pirate Bay Applies for .PIRATE Domain Name Registry
As a response to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) applying pressure on the domain name industry, Reservella Ltd., the parent company of The Pirate Bay, has applied to register the generic top-level domain (gTLD) extension .PIRATE. The move is hoped…
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KickassTorrents Domain Seized; Site Taken Down
Popular torrent site KickassTorrents (KAT) has had its Somalian kickass.so domain seized and the site is currently down. KickassTorrents had over one million unique visitors a day, making it the most popular torrent site in the world, more so than The Pirate Bay. Since The Pirate Bay was taken down…
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Craigslist Knocked Offline
Craigslist was knocked offline yesterday (Sunday) and at the time of writing, it still hasn’t come back. The suspected DNS hijack was previously redirecting visitors to a website called Digital Gangster. The Next Web points out that this site was behind a famous 2009 Twitter hack and another hack which took…
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The Pirate Bay Resurfaces At A New Domain After Being Briefly Shut Down
The well known torrent site The Pirate Bay had its domain moved to the Caribbean destination of Sint Maarten this summer, but based on a report from TorrentFreak that domain name has since been shut down by authorities forcing the torrent pirates to move the targeted hub once again. Since…
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London To Be Awarded .london Domain Name
Starting in spring new year, businesses, individuals and organisations based in London will be able to apply for the new .london domain suffix. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, also known as Icann, have awarded the city the rights to its very own domain name, making it the…
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