Acro.net – Technology Rants & Raves by Acroplex®

With Amazon unveiling yet another digital device, the Kindle Fire, I took a break to ponder where are we headed with all this.

Cheaper, but not better than the Apple iPad, the Kindle Fire is a tablet aimed at the “reading crowd“.

I’m not sure what that means, exactly.

I’m a reader, and as such I’m more specifically a book reader. Book reading is becoming a lost art and pleasure, that battery-operated gizmos attempt to steal and imitate.

I read my books on good old-fashioned printed paper; some say the Amazon forests are thus slowly chopped away. What a load of bullshit.

When millions of obsolete iPads and Kindle Fires are dumped along with other digital trash two years from now, the deadly chemicals released into the soil polluting the water horizon and the crops, or fumigated into the air we breathe will be far more devastating than the tree loss alleged by the pushers of those devices.

Sorry Jeff Bezos, your “reading crowd” will not include me.

Mondays are great, at least for me. After a regular, long or longer weekend, it’s great knowing that the world is my oyster.

While some people – especially domainers – lack motivation at the thought that another Monday is in the process, I thrive with the buzzing sound of a busy Monday.

Hump days (Wednesdays) and Fridays are a waste of time and they should be removed from the calendar. At least, removed in the sense that they should be converted into practical, active and productive days. There is no room for slacking in any business, especially domaining.

So get your calendar out and boldly outline your tasks for a given day – especially Mondays. You will soon find out that the rest of your week goes by with a higher than usual energy level and your task list gets check marks very fast.

Domaining is great on any given day – give yourself a head start for the week by making Mondays your launchpad.

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As an impulse domain buyer, when I saw the domain KissNote.com listed for sale on the Domaining.com timeline I clicked on it.

The domain was being offered on CAX.com with eCOP.com as the escrow – another pair of great services by French domain entrepreneur, Francois Carrillo.

In June I sold KissBank.com on Sedo for $4,500 and in my opinion KissNote.com is by far superior.

Because I used the “Buy Now” option on CAX.com I was also rewarded with 5% of the sale price, credited to my eCOP account.

The process of paying and receiving the domain has been automated very much since my first purchase of a domain at CAX.com several months ago. With the introduction of eCOP, there is now a comprehensive messaging system in place, with email notifications as well.

The only “complaint” would be that in the messaging system, the messages arrive in a condensed format and one needs to click on the image of an envelope to expand them. They appeared to be empty to me until I hovered over the envelope. I would suggest to Francois to add a “Click me” line of text for numskulls like me

I will be using CAX.com and eCOP.com again in the future. Great service, Francois!

Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see that a transaction that was pending at Sedo on Friday, moved on with payment on Saturday.

Specifically:

On Friday, I pushed as instructed a domain to the Sedo account with the holding registrar. Due to the time being around 5pm, there was no further action during that day on the domain.

On Saturday, the Sedo agent apparently reviewed the status of that transfer and issued a credit note, thus marking the transaction as complete.

It’s definitely exciting seeing Sedo active on the weekend, a move that speeds up the process of buying and selling domains!

Very rarely – if ever – do I post twice on the same day. But a “domains wanted” thread over at DNForum made me scramble enough material for yet another domain-related rant.

What the heck, it’s also Friday.

So when a buyer posts about their budget being in the “$xx – low $xxx” range, one would hope their expectations about domain quality aren’t that high.

Otherwise, either they have a small budget and high expectations, or a small brain. Or both.

However, when a fellow domainer jumps in to defend the lowball poster’s demands, that’s when I take offense.

And I quote my initial response from that thread:

Short domains: $x,xxx
Aged domains: $x,xxx
Short & aged domains: $x,xxx – $xx,xxx

There are some so-called “industry standards” that once broken will further allow a bunch of clowns to demand something for nothing.

Short domains, aged domains, short *and* aged domains – all are worthy of a domainer’s respect. When you violate this rough guide, you’re disrespecting an entire industry.

Sure, I could have walked away from the thread – then again, I’m known for voicing my opinion when I strongly feel I’m in the right.

A seller is in the wrong when they declare their domains are “premium” when they are not. A buyer is in the wrong when they demand unreasonably low prices for domains that are worth much more by definition.

TGIF!