We all have pet peeves; some are personal, others are related to one's professional behavior towards other professionals. The issue of courtesy response - or lack thereof - is one of my pet peeves. When someone solicits domain offers by inviting emails or private messages, it's considered … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2012
Sight Systems: The.Future.Is.Now
August 2, 2012 by 1 Comment
A short film that shocks with its direct implementation of futurism and technology - that are available right this minute. Called "Sight", it was created by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo, as their graduation project from the Bezalel academy of arts, in Jerusalem. It was too cool not to … [Read more...]
An “opa!” moment: The GoDaddy video saga continues – part three
August 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
During the past few weeks, I've been trying to 'extract' some information from GoDaddy's marketing department, regarding the new set of commercials and their use of music composed by the late Greek composer, Manos Hatzidakis. GoDaddy's marketing department responded that it's all the work of … [Read more...]
Why I oppose the .Patagonia gTLD application
August 1, 2012 by 5 Comments
CircleID posted earlier today about the "Do's and Dont's of commenting on new gTLD applications". Apparently, there is a lot of abuse of the system, to the point of spamming the platform that ICANN utilizes in order to poll the public opinion and solicit comments. While the system lacks a few … [Read more...]
IISP.HK – ICANN accredited registrar removes stolen content after complaint
August 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, I described how IISP.HK - an ICANN accredited registrar and Internet service provider in Hong Kong, China - decided to cherry-pick content from domain blogs and reproduced it in whole, without any attributions to the sources. In fact, IISP.HK went to the extremes of altering headlines … [Read more...]
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