Archives for June 2011

Goodbye, phone jack cable

Remember the good old dial-up days? The truth is, I've been using one form or another of cable Internet access since 1999 and never looked back. Back then it was Media One, a Jacksonville, FL cable and Internet access provider that offered 1 Mbps Internet access. My employer of that time, an … [Read more...]

Finally, Firefox gets its sh1t together!

Pardon the Sunday rant but the truth is, I was just about to change my default browser to Opera. Miraculously, Firefox - the browser of choice for millions - fixed a series of underlying glitches with its latest 5.0 release. The "feature" that drove me nuts interacted with Gmail and other web … [Read more...]

Social.com – How I saved the owner’s $2.6 million property

It's good to hear when people become successful overnight; that's the type of satisfaction that can be shared. Financial success through domaining is yet another way to display one's entrepreneurial achievements and the recent sale of Social.com for $2.6 million is one such case. Five years … [Read more...]

Don’t be a domain fat cow!

While working on completing my 2nd mid-$x,xxx sale of last week, I encountered a problem that I hadn't experienced before. In the past, I've used many 2nd tier domain registrars and some might be quirky; others outright useless, particularly if they're based in countries where English is a … [Read more...]

Calling Fabulous

The few times that I needed tech support from Fabulous - the popular domain registrar from Down Under - I had no trouble hearing back in a timely fashion. All this, while due to location Fabulous is 14 hours ahead of the US East Coast, a full 17 hours ahead of California and the West Coast. And … [Read more...]