October 2014 archive

Another 7 newGTLDs Now Available .airforce .army .healthcare .navy .okinawa .soy .vet

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability. Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs: .airforce .army .healthcare .navy .okinawa .soy .vet with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD …

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Checking your Rights and Claiming your .UK Domain Name

Nominet the .UK Registry for 2nd Level Domains (2LDs) .co.uk .org.uk .me.uk etc now allow the top level ccTLD .UK to be registered 🙂 For domains which currently do not exist as (something).*.uk they can be registered now at Register Your .UK Domain Name Where (something).*.UK already exists, there is a system of ‘rights’ over …

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Another 13 newGTLDs Now Available .attorney .bayern .beer .city .deals .desi .direct .lawyer .nyc .place .scot .surf .vegas

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability. Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs: .attorney .bayern .beer .city .deals .desi .direct .lawyer .nyc .place .scot .surf .vegas with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if …

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Bash Vulnerability Shellshock – How To Test and Secure Your Machines

A new vulnerability in GNU Bash (referred to as the Shellshock Bash Bug) has been disclosed – every version upto the announcement of the issue on 24/September is exploitable and MUST be patched immediately. This vulnerability allows hackers to remotely execute code on your server by passing a string following an environment variable Exploitable systems …

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