there is no v3.0
pipboy v3.0 ~ that is this website’s title. v3.0 because this is my third attempt at the documentation of my adventurous mishaps. well, not anymore it is. i’m dropping v3.0 from now on.
you see, the internet can be a very dangerous place if one is not careful with their identity. there will always be people out there who ready to take advantage of one’s identity.
phishing
Wikiwikiwiki-wild-wild-west-pedia says:
In computing, phishing is a form of criminal activity using social engineering techniques. It is characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an apparently official electronic communication.
my mentor william wrote an article about this one a few days ago. he shows how some spoofing bastards out there were trying to fake customers into giving out their personal banking information by sending them to a site that looked like metrobank.
but i’m not saying someone was copying my site. it’s more of a branding issue. for instance, most 80s babies know about street fighter. subsequently, almost everyone who knows street fighter will know that street fighter super mega alpha omega ultimate edition is better than street fighter super mega alpha omega edition sans ultimate. that’s how it also is in the internet. by virtue of the decimal counting system, wouldn’t you agree that v4.0 should be better than v3.0? so, i’d like to protect myself from myself, where i can accidentally imply that my site is good or bad at any given time or another site is better or not. if you’re gunning for a first-page google result based from your site keywords or website title, such branding issue is very important.
having said that, let’s talk about other identity concerns over the internet.
Web Address
Web addresses, Domain Names or URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are the real estates of the web. Businesses try their best to have their web addresses identical to their company names. Example: Ayala ~ http://ayala.com.ph.
There are cases when a company gets beaten to such web addresses by early birds though. This means settling for a different Domain Name or something similar. For instance, some guy beat PLDT to the PLDT domain name when the internet age began. He owned it for several years, spoofing the philippine telecommunications company until … they decided to reach an $amicable$ settlement.
business idea!
light bulb please with matching *ding*
such real estate hogging is actually a big business over the internet. lots of freaking domain name tycoons out there do nothing but buy and buy domains everyday. after getting hold of such domain names, these companies then sell it at auctions with a fat tag price or sell it with a fatter tag price to interested entities ~ whichever comes first. so if you’ve got a credit card and a few thousand bucks to spare, drop me an e-mail for the whole business plan. we’ll be rich in no time like this guy i read from the internet. just a few months ago, sex.com was sold for 14 million us dollars! these are the times when one would say, “hey, why didn’t i think of that?!”
anyway, from now on, say hello to pipboy and say goodbye to v3.0.