A popular “metric” in the space are benchmarks depicting speeds of DNS lookups. Sales guys love to tell you “your existing DNS is slow” and that theirs is fast.
easyDNS purchasing Green Electricity via Bullfrog Power
We are thrilled to announce that as of today, we are now “bullfrog powered”, which means we are purchasing green electricity via Bullfrog Power. How this works: Our total electrical consumption is calculated (in this case our two main datacenters and our offices) and we then purchase an equivalent amount of green electricity, generated from […]
First there was tweet2txt…now we have tweet2whois.
From the people who brought you tweet2txt, a completely useless hack to put your twitter status into a TXT record at your own domain, have taken it one step further and released tweet2whois: put your twitter status into your domain whois records. This one may actually have some utility from the get-go. If you’re in […]
The True Value of Social Media to a Business
Last night I posted The True Value of Social Media to a Business on my personal blog. (I’m still trying to figure out the most coherent way to integrate personal musings from over there with our rigidly “on message” corporate platform here. Some of the stuff I post there has no place here, being liberally […]
Customize your parked domain pages
We’re happy to announce the launch of Customizable Parked Pages for your domains. We have stood alone as being possibly the only domain registrar that does not monetize our members unused domains by sprinkling those “parked” pages with Pay-per-click ads ….and then pocketing the money (our first episode of domaincomix made light of this situation). […]
Career-ending moments in Celebrity-CEO-ism (or HowTo Transfer Your Domain Away From Godaddy)
Sorry for the clunky title, ever since I saw the original “Kids in The Hall” Career-Ending-Moments skit, it’s been a meme I’ve always loved and been obsessed with, especially when I see one unfold in front of my eyes. So unless you’ve been living in a cave, you probably know that last week a media […]
