Archives for 2012

Visibly dejected over a failed domain acquisition, bidder launches cyberattack

One of my single word dot .com domains received an offer a few days ago. The person contacted me via the WHOIS info and asked me what is my asking price for this "unused domain", which he said he'd use for a business he's launching. The domain is not only a short generic and 18 years old but it's … [Read more...]

Twenty-nine dollars and 99 cents: The software that saved my digital ass

Right on its 4th "birthday", my primary hard disk hit the digital Purgatory on New Year's Eve. It also took a secondary drive hostage, as if lightning had hit twice. I spent several hours wondering why would two admittedly "ripe" Western Digital drives fail on me, then I decided to go get a brand … [Read more...]