Archives for February 2013

Domain offers: The imaginary client

A recent trend in domain inquiries involves a species that today will receive its 15 minutes of fame: the imaginary client. Such domain offers attempt to extract a quote, or negotiate a domain sale, on behalf of someone else - that remains conveniently anonymous. Typically, if an offer … [Read more...]

ASPCA.org could use *your* donation to salvage animals in need

ASPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was founded in 1866; it was the first such humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. As humans, we display our true self in how we treat the other species we share Earth with. The dollars you'll be donating to the ASPCA go … [Read more...]

Schools don’t need to teach kids how to code

The brand new initiative at Code.org states that "every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code." This statement is signed by 80 or so technocrats, politicians and other so-called 'public figures', that attempt to deliver a convincing reason why schools should teach … [Read more...]

Google does not cache everything: Check your back ups

It's a misconception that Google stores and caches every page it crawls. To begin with, one can block out the Google bots, that will obey such commands in a 'robots.txt' file stored at your server. Google does not seem to store very recent content; sometimes, there is a waiting period until these … [Read more...]

Time-wasters: How to tell them apart

As a domain investor, I am direct and to the point; when I’m in the process of acquiring a domain name, I make an offer and negotiate from there. If the price difference is unbridgeable, I let the seller know that my budget does not stretch that far. As a seller of domain names, I expect … [Read more...]