Managed Solutions

Beware of Predatory Domain Name Registrars

This may sound familiar to you, you're going through your business mail and setting aside the bills for your payables department. Oh, here is one for our website, Liberty Names of America. I guess our domain is expiring we better renew .... uh wait a minute, we don't use Liberty Names of America. Why are they sending me a bill? It seems that some companies are founded with at the least ill advised business policies or perhaps far worse. Over the years as the operator of a small business I have s...

Adware Firm Pays $3 Million In Settlement

Reuters reported on 11/3/2006 that Internet Advertising firm Zango, Inc. agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that it's pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of unsuspecting users personal computers. This is a huge blow to the perpetrators of a crime that has up to this point been quite difficult to prosecute. While difficult to estimate there is no doubt that the impact of adware world-wide is in the billions of dollars. This resulting from lo...