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Matt Cutts will be speaking at the Domain Roundtable in April. Matt is well known in the SEO community as the most visible enforcer behind the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Matt is a great source of all things Google and most importantly he is an expert on Google Search Engine Algorithms. I qualify him as an expert because he literally wrote some of the original Google algorithms and he is listed on several Google patents. Matt held Top Secret clearance while working for the NSA prior to joining Google as one of the first 100 employees. If you have any questions that you would like to ask Matt this is the perfect opportunity. General questions that relate to everyone are the best kind, it is hard for him to answer a direct question about your particular site while a thousand people are watching. The more general the better.

We will be hosting a “Matt at the Roundtable - Question and Answer session” where he will be answering questions that people send in prior to the event. If you want to ask Matt a question please email them to mattcutts [at] domainroundtable.com, we will be selecting the best and tossing the rest. The questions will be asked to Matt live at the event. We will pass along the questions that require Matt to do some legwork prior to the event so that he can dig deep and find your answers to your “impossible to answer” Google questions. Make sure to send them prior to April 11, 2008, to guarantee they are reviewed for Matt’s Q&A! So lay it on us, email us your hardest questions. And don’t miss out on your chance to hear all the wisdom from Matt - register for the Roundtable now!

We want to thank Fabulous.com for being one of our corporate sponsors of the Roundtable this year. Without great sponsors like Fabulous, special events like these would not be possible.

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It appears that all TrafficZ customers have received a notice by email today they may be the target of a phishing attack. This particular website was hosted in China (Beijing - Chinanet Jiangsu Province Network). I did some research on my own and it appears that not only are TrafficZ’s customers targets but so are GoldKey’s customers. A Registrant Search on the phisher quickly showed the other target was GoldKey customers. Below is a copy of the email I received from TrafficZ:

“Several of our clients have received emails spoofing the email address of TrafficZ personnel. The title of these emails usually read “TrafficZ | Domain Termination Notice”. The “notice” states that one of your domains has been deleted from your TrafficZ account and to visit Traffiz.com within 72 hours or your account will be blocked. The sender is listed as Deborah Amar, one of our Client Relations Specialist. If you click on the link to visit the TraffiZ.com, you will be directed to TrofficZ.com, which bears close resemblance to TrafficZ.com. This is a phishing attempt to try and capture the username and password of your TrafficZ account.

Please be assured that the TrafficZ attorneys are doing everything in their power to end these emails and disable TrofficZ.com. If you have mistakenly entered your username and password on this phishing site, please notify us immediately, change your password and re-verify your payment information. “

I think this marks the arrival of micro-phishing. We have reached a point where domains are valuable and so are the accounts that monetize them. I think phishers are getting more creative at how they operate and now look for wealthy targets. Paypal and Bank of America move over, micro-phishing has arrived the new targets are domain owners. When a phishing group can target individual customers they are more likely to be scammed into handing over credentials. For example, I keep getting phishing emails about accounts I don’t have, like my “Bank of Scotland” account. It is hard for me to be convinced to give up my username and password to a banking website I have never visited or even registered for. However Domains have DNS information and a phisher can see what customers to target for each parking company or registrar.

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With top-level domains appreciating at as much as 94% per year by some estimates, it is little wonder that domaining is the new ‘hot’ industry in the internet world. But despite the rapid growth of domaining, there is surprisingly little consensus as to what industry best practices are, or even what laws apply to domaining. In this article we try to sort through the legal and accounting mumbo-jumbo to explain ten of the most important US laws when it comes to domaining and provide some simple and straightforward tips for safely navigating them.

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If you are a student, or creating a website only for your craze of a hobby, than definitely the free web hosts are a better option as there is no point of spending so much on your domain name. But if you are an artist, a designer or a craftsman, than may be you won't want yourself to be seen with a free web host!

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