Huyi Global - “Internet Keyword” scam?

Following the .Asia scanners from "ADNR", today, one of our partners got an email from a company called Huyi Global from Hong Kong. This is a bit different as it does not deal with domain names. It deals with "Internet Keywords". And, the email comes from what appears to be a legitimately registered company (i.e. it is registered, but it does not mean that they are legitimate).

“ADNR” .asia scams continue

Today, one of our partners received an email from a party claiming to be "an institution specialized in the dispute of .asia domain name and Internet
brand, Asia Domain Name Registrar". The email originates from a domain "adnr" and is your classic blackmail scam.

Ning Launches Social Networking Platform

Ning, a company that has an illustrious management team has just launched a new social networking platform. Platform? Well, sort of. While the primary focus of the site seems to be similar to what we’ve seen with other social networks like mySpace / LinkedIn, one of the key differences with what they’re doing is offering premium services to those who want to use their own domain names and run their own advertising on a private label site.

Eh?

Boosting web server performance

Last year (2006) we figured we had a unique idea — lets podcast the Superbowl Commercials for the expats who live in Hong Kong and other places that we cover through our main site GeoExpat.Com. We had no clue about what would happen next — 40 thousand+ visitors showed up on DevLib.Org and downloaded over 2TB worth of videos in a week. Well, that brought our server down to its knees and along with the hassles of making sure that the videos got uploaded, handling a database crash and dealing with the excess bandwidth, we were not sure if this should be repeated again — specially since the folks over at YouTube had become the destination of choice since last year.

But, common sense did not prevail and we said “what the heck, lets do it again and lets do it with some better technology”.

In this post, we list some of the technologies used and how we optimized our server to handle over 80K visitors and 4TB of downloads in two days.

GoDaddy IPO is on

According to recently SEC sightings, Godaddy, a large registrar who are well known for their Superbowl commercial antics and tedious signup pages have filed for an IPO.

Recovering from a database failure

We”re returning from a massive database / disk failure. We have lost about 50 posts made over the last few weeks, more significantly our CES coverage might have been deleted.

Sorry folks! But atleast we have our sanity (or what little we had to begin with)… we”ll start all over again from scratch and rebuild.