Moniker experienced an unscheduled three hour downtime earlier today, something that raised the ire of its customers. It is now back up. A few days ago, GoDaddy was down for the better part of the day, keeping a large number of customers offline. When it comes to downtime, there are systems … [Read more...]
Plain text passwords in emails?
September 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
An ICANN accredited registrar affiliated with SnapNames, is currently sending usernames and passwords in plain text - via email, no less. SnapNames is using several small registrars to split its drop-catching resources, and this particular registrar clearly violates security procedures. After … [Read more...]
GoDaddy suitors: The unhealthy side of competition
September 11, 2012 by 6 Comments
As much as I don't recommend GoDaddy's hosting services, I'm totally against the methods used by its suitors and rivals to steal away customers. People that are dissatisfied by a service need time to research for alternate services. What they don't need, is to make a rushed decision based on … [Read more...]
The silly prejudice against .net and .org – Served with gyros
September 8, 2012 by 5 Comments
My first five or so domain registrations were all .com domains. That was from 1997 to 1998, and in 1999 I registered my first .org, still focusing on .com domains. The first domain I ever sold was a .com, in 2000, for low four figures. That year I saw my domain registrations reach double digits; … [Read more...]
Good Lord, Elliot – look what you’ve started!
September 4, 2012 by 7 Comments
I could not help but chuckle today, after receiving an email from a chap offering to sell a domain. Sure, this was the same old "let's spam every domainer from a scraped WHOIS list" email - but with a twist. After skimming through the email, I reached its closing statement, that looked very … [Read more...]
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