Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another strong DDoS attack’

Re:Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another... by scoot on Sunday April 21, 2013 @04:23PM (#5586267)

How the heck did they get a 2-sylable 6-character dictionary word .com domain for this?!

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Re:Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another... by clarkm on Sunday April 21, 2013 @04:39PM (#5586317)

They bought it from a Grateful Dead fan for something like $10k.

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Re:Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another... by crgt on Sunday April 21, 2013 @04:26PM (#5586276)

I imagine they bought it? With the intent of making their money back.

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Re:Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another... by lectrick on Sunday April 21, 2013 @05:54PM (#5586594)

I work for Desk.com, owned by a company that also owns Work.com and a few other one-syllable domains.

That company is Salesforce.com. They paid quite a bit for those domains. :O

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