On this fabulous post-Christmas day, I'm pondering why I've been using Firefox for the past few years. When I changed over from Internet Explorer to using Firefox, it was due to the world wide web peer pressure - hordes of tech geeks crying out how "evil" IE has been and how insecure. The truth … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
Higher .com/.net fees? Big whoopie!
December 17, 2009 by 4 Comments
Today, Verisign announced the increase of their fees for registering/renewing .com/.net domains. Per contract, they are allowed to increase the fees up to 7% annually. No such increase occured in 2009. My response: big whoopie. To those domainers among us with no long term memory; there was a … [Read more...]
I’m taking the Snapnames rebate and here’s why …
November 16, 2009 by 15 Comments
The current argument over the Snapnames rebate seems to be that there is more than meets the eye in the recent Nelson "Halvarez" Brady scandal. Both victims and non-victims of the "Hank Alvarez" scam, which materialized while he was a VP of Engineering at Snapnames, seem to want a lot more beyond … [Read more...]
Did Halvarez act alone? Domainers deserve to know!
November 8, 2009 by 14 Comments
Now that the Snapnames auction history data is available as far back as 2004, the next question is: Did Nelson "halvarez" Brady act alone, both in the bidding alias sense and in the real wold sense? In other words, was "halvarez" the only Snapnames account used to jack up prices in auctions - and … [Read more...]
Time to compare notes on the Halvarez scandal
November 7, 2009 by 2 Comments
Acting under pressure from domain blogs, posts in forums and angry emails and phonecalls to support, Snapnames has re-instated access to the full domain auction history per account - going all the way back to 2004. So it's time to compare notes. After analyzing the data, Nelson "halvarez" … [Read more...]
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