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Well after burning the midnight oil until about 6am today we finally finished the tally and selected the three winners of the first ever Link Money Contest.

I entered all contestants in a database and assigned each person a contestant number, then as they performed additional tasks I kept a running tally of the points count.  When the contest closed there was a total of 713 points spread out among all of the contestants.

Great care was taken to be sure that all points were credited to each contestant and then the final drawing was totally selected by chance by using Random.org to generate three different numbers for all of the points.

So now we will announce who the three winners were…

But first a word from our sponsors.
I want to thank each and every contestant who put a lot of effort into all the jumping through hoops that some cockamamie guy dreamed up, gee I wonder who that could be..?

I really want to thank some very special online internet marketing friends that stepped up when the contest was first announced and from the goodness of their heart freely donated some very nice prizes with no strings attached.

Mark Mason of Mason World http://www.masonworld.com/ donated two copies each of NicheAdsenseThemes, FirstEbookNow, and NicheNav, which will go to the first and second place winners.

J.T. Pratt of http://www.jtpratt.com/ donated three copies of his ebay plugin for WordPress, WP Easy Bay,  One of those will go to each of the three winners.  He also donated 2 hours of consulting as a WordPress Consultant value), which can be used for upgrades, security, SEO, theme work, etc.”   This will be one hour each to first and second place winner.

Then LinkMoney.org donated a paid copy of GoogleSniper and $200 cash to the First Place winner, which will be in addition to the above mentioned prizes..

$100 cash and prizes mentioned above go to the Second Place winner.

$50 cash and the Ebay plugin to the Third Place winner.

And the winners are…

First place goes to: Contestant “krissy knox”

Second Place goes to: Contestant “Eva”

Third Place goes to: Contestant “glf”

Notifications have been made by email.

Thanks again to everyone involved and when we do another Link Money Contest it will be easier all the way around.

Happy Holidays everyone.
Rich Hill

http://LinkMoney.org

This has nothing to do with ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, but they certainly ought to be involved in a major policy change.

The domain of the very popular website MakeUseOf.com has been STOLEN! This was reported by Daniel Scocco during the night on his Blog DailyBlogTips.com.

The report says that MakeUseOf was being hosted on GoDaddy and that GD allowed the domain to be transfered away from the owner to somewhere in Dubai. GoDaddy no doubt will cover their ass by saying all security terms were met, but I say Bull Shit! Get better security terms!

How can this happen? MakeUseOf has over 20,000 subscribers, I being one, and we all enjoy the tips and free information given out contiuously be MakeUseOf.

This is a Nightmare, a Horror Story fitting for the Halloween season for sure, but sadly true and how will it be resolved?

What would you do if your baby was stolen and taken to a foreign country?

This industry needs better security methods similar to what the online banking industry uses such as, multiple security codes, a primary image associated with the account, two security questions, a mouse pointer select keyboard, and anything else that someone could come up with.

I did notice that one method being offered by some registrars is to limit activity to a specific IP address. That way transfers could only come from one specific computer. That seem like a good idea to me, what do you think?

For now you should make sure that you use DIFFERENT passwords for all of your domains, your administration panels, your hosting company accounts, and so on. Use multiple email addresses for different accounts.

What do you think? Can anyone come up with ideas on how to make this more secure. Lets talk about it. This HAS to be fixed.

Come on GoDaddy, fix this and return MakeUseOf to the rightful owner.

Rich Hill

UPDATE – UPDATE – UPDATE:

MakeUseOf has a temporary home on blogger until this gets fixed.  go there and give them your support.

http://makeuseof-temporary.blogspot.com/2008/11/make-use-ofs-temporary-home.html