T35 Hosting

T35 Hosting
Type of site
 Hosting service
Available in English
Headquarters Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, United States
Owner Melen, LLC
Created by Alex Melen[1]
Website www.t35hosting.com
Commercial Yes
Launched March 30, 1999 (1999-03-30)[1]

T35 Hosting is a web hosting company founded in March 1999 by Alex Melen. By 2009, T35 Hosting was providing hosting to over 600,000 websites and was ranked 7,000 on Alexa,[2] capitalizing on the closure of Geocities.[3] Alex Melen & T35 Hosting have been featured on BusinesssWeek's Best Entrepreneurs Under 25,[4][5] Bloomberg Top 101 Best Freebies,[6] YoungBiz Magazine,[7] Babson College Student Business of the Year[8] and ResellerClub's HostingCon.[9]

Hoshiko, LLC Patent Claims

In 2009, The PTO rejected all 20 patent claims by Hoshiko, that were used against T35 Hosting, claiming the internet sub-domains is too obvious to patent.[10]

Joseph Stack

T35 Hosting was the hosting provider for Joseph Stack, implicated in the 2010 Austin suicide attack.[11] The FBI allegedly requested that T35 Hosting take down Stack's website manifesto following the suicide attack.[12][13] Within minutes of the event, T35 Hosting received thousands of emails demanding Stack's words be reposted.[14][15]

Botnet Attacks

On April 29, 2010 David Anthony Edwawrds and Thomas James Frederick Smith plead guilty to building a custom botnet to attack T35 Hosting and ThePlanet.com. Using the botnet, Edwards and Smith broke into T35 Hosting, defaced the website, and posted username and passwords to the public.[16][17]

Hacking Attacks

T35 Hosting services were abused and used in several phishing and hacking attacks including the attack on Habbo.[18] T35 Hosting's free hosting service was also used in various security experiments, including M86 Security Lab's identification of vulnerabilities in McAfee's Secure Short URL Service in 2010[19] and Imperva's cross-site scripting vulnerability profiling.[20] The continued abuse lead to T35 Hosting's member sites being listed in many back lists, including Denmark's censorship list[21] and eventually lead to the discontinuation of the free hosting services.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Whois t35.com
  2. ↑ "Interview With Alex Melen – Founder Of T35 FREE Web Hosting". Retire21 Radio Program. 2009. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  3. ↑ "T35 Hosting Targets Former Geocities Users". TheWhir.com. 2009. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
  4. ↑ "The Best Entrepreneurs Under 25". BusinessWeek. 2006. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  5. ↑ "The Best Entrepreneurs Class of ‘06 Today - BusinessWeek". BusinessWeek. 2011. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  6. ↑ "101 Best Web Freebies". Bloomberg. 2011. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  7. ↑ "YoungBiz 100 Report on America's Top 'Treps" (PDF). Bloomberg. 2001. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  8. ↑ "Student Business of the Year Award". Babson College. 2006. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  9. ↑ "HostingCon 2009: How Free Hosting Affects Budget Shared Hosting" (PDF). HostingCon. 2001. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  10. ↑ "Patent office rejects subdomain patent claims". CNET. 2009. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  11. ↑ "Long 'rant' attributed to Austin pilot posted this morning". USAToday.com. 2010. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  12. ↑ "The FBI Didn't Take Down Austin Plane Crash Pilot Joe Stack's Online Manifesto". BusinessInsider.com. 2010. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  13. ↑ "Plane Crash Suspect's Diatribe". TheSmokingGun.com. 2010. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  14. ↑ "Extremists in 'Patriot' Movement Calling Joe Stack a Hero". ABCNews. 2010. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  15. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Stack's Daughter Retracts 'Hero' Statement". ABCNews. 2010. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  16. ↑ "Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire". TechWorld. 2010. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  17. ↑ "Botnet test that aimed DDoS at ISP leads to guilty plea". ComputerWorld. 2010. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  18. ↑ "Hackers have targeted social networking service Habbo with a phishing attack, which successfully acquired login details". ITPRO. 2010. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  19. ↑ "McAfee's Secure Short URL Service not so secure". HelpNetSecurity. 2010. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  20. ↑ "The Anatomy of a Cross-Site Scripting Campaign Attackers" (PDF). Imperva.com. 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  21. ↑ "Denmark: 3863 sites on censorship list, Feb 2008". WikiLeaks. 2008. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
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