Invisible chains: Can you live without Internet access?

How sad is it that I am making this statement, typing from my home office, with a multitude of technology gadgets surrounding me? And yet, if I step outside this room, reality should tell me that the invisible wires to the outside world should still be there. Wrong. An hour of Internet … [Read more...]

Domains, Taxes and Fabulous.com

A little over a year ago I started consolidating my domain names at a single registrar. At that time, I decided to use Fabulous.com for a number of obvious reasons: low pricing, extensive backend to manage the domains, great tech support. As time passed by, I still have domains in a handful of … [Read more...]

Want to leverage your Domain Portfolio? Then ask others about it

Humans are somehow obsessed with dates and numbers. Since the early days of cave-dwelling, counting the goods we owned has apparently instilled a certain level of instinctive focus on numbers: how many, how often, when. When it comes down to domains and domain portfolios, renewal dates are … [Read more...]

Domainers and Development: Tight Budgets or simply Bad Taste?

I'm often amazed at the type of content slated as "development" with the usual tags of "minisite", "stores" and "portals". Often a euphemism for graphic headers slapped on an interface that lacks intuition, those design atrocities are presented to domainers as money-makers that would beat parking … [Read more...]

Pulling the plug on unauthorized copycats – an update

A month ago I wrote about how you can effectively remove unauthorized content from web sites, under the threat of a DMCA notice. The process is simple, straightforward and as long as you provide the necessary information to the legal department of the host providing the server space, it will work … [Read more...]