When it comes to customer service, Sedo is top notch

In the past, I've been critical to the point of harshness with Sedo. The multi-national corporation that monetizes and auctions domains is definitely a major player in the domain industry; an industry still in early infancy. With that in mind, when things go wrong I often go off on a "rant" to … [Read more...]

Sedo should learn from the TSA and restrict high-risk domainers from bidding

As I traveled by airplane during the change of the year, I could not but notice how the rules of the traveling game have become stricter. After the incident with the Nigerian terrorist who attempted to blow up a Delta Airlines plane bound for Detroit, there is no more room for mistakes. TSA's new … [Read more...]

The straw that broke the browser’s back

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...]

Higher .com/.net fees? Big whoopie!

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 …

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...]