As I mentioned a little while ago, I was testing out eBay for selling domain names. While that test is mothballed now (poor results), one positive thing came out of it – I flushed out a real life domain scam artist.

For those selling domains, one big issue is selling the domain safely; for large amounts, Escrow.com makes sense, and for smaller amounts, PayPal (if you trust the other party) is fine. But the scam I’m talking about doesn’t involve actually selling – it involves the HOPE of selling! …

Over the past week, a security issue has popped up with Amember, the membership site program (and the one used here at ActiveBlogging).

Simply put, not all input is cleaned up properly; the result is, it’s possible to create a user name that contains malicious Javascript, and then use that to grab cookie information (among other things). The result is a XSS (cross site scripting) attack.

Details on the problem are explained here, and CGI-Central (makers of Amember) have posted a fix you can add yourself (total time to patch …

I spent the weekend moving some sites around (and which will be discussed in an upcoming ActiveBlogging Report) and I realized that occasionally a bad domain name comes in handy.

You know the ones I mean. You thought the name was cute at the time, but aren’t using it, and can’t let it go. Or a four letter domain name that seemed so obviously valuable when you bought it (and since all of them are currently taken, you’d be right). Or the .ORG or .NET or .BIZ for your main …

Many people ask if it’s OK to get a domain with someone else’s business name or trademark in it – here’s why you shouldn’t…

“Above the fold” is an old newspaper term – since papers arrived folded, the top half was seen first – so obviously, if you wanted to get attention (and encourage people to read the paper), you put your best stories “above the fold”.

On the Internet, you’d think this was not a problem, but we still have a ‘fold’ to deal with – the first part of the web page that appears in our browser window. Anything below it has a problem – because if this top section doesn’t attract, …