Registrars

KeyDrive Posts Notice On Acquiring Moniker And SnapNames

Last week, it was reported online that domain registrar Moniker and backorder company SnapNames were acquired by KeyDrive S.A. from their original parent company Oversee.net. It’s only a few days ago I posted about it here as well. Perhaps one thing that somewhat…somewhat bothered me was that there wasn’t any notice about this from...

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Domain Registrar Moniker Bought, And 16 Domain Names Seized

I’m sorry for the downtime, everyone. Let’s just say it was difficult on my part to get things fixed promptly, but am nonetheless thankful things are (somewhat) back to normal. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do, as you noticed. But to get things back on track, I got two news bits...

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DreamHost’s Double Whammy Outages

DreamHost’s Double Whammy Outages

Recently I was going to write about popular hosting provider (and turns out domain registrar also) DreamHost last week. I held off as I wanted to check some other things. Then it turned out DreamHost experienced another (and on-going as of this post) problem. All within a span of about two weeks. (ouch) From...

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