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Comment What about yesterday's incident? (Score 1) 91

Our club's website is hosted by NetSol and our homepage was defaced yesterday. After 30+ minutes in the hold queue, I figured it was an issue on their side. Sure enough, the customer rep told me a bunch of their hosting servers suffered an intrusion and thousands of customers were similarly affected.

Submission + - Ron Paul found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in domain dispute (domainnamewire.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Ron Paul lost his two cybersquatting complaints against RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org.

In the case of RonPaul.org, Paul was been found guilty of "reverse domain name hijacking".

A reverse domain name hijacking finding means that the arbitration panel believes the case was filed in bad faith, resulting in the abuse of the administrative process.

The panel ruled this way since Paul filed the case after the owner of RonPaul.org had already offered to give him the domain for free.

The panel also ruled against Paul for the RonPaul.com domain name.

Submission + - Scientists growing new crystals to make LED lights useful for office, home (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: When to comes to offering warm yet visually efficient lighting, LEDs have a long way to go. But scientists with the University of Georgia and Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories are looking at new family of crystals they say glow different colors and hold the key for letting white LED light shine in homes and offices as well as natural sunlight.

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