The other day I read this article over on ZeroHedge from a small business owner in the US on why businesses like his were the dwindling exception. He cited 9 reasons the deck is stacked against the owner-operated small business, they were mainly specific to bricks-and-mortar shops in the U.S., but it resonated with me […]
Of Interest
DNS Company Allows Key Domain To Lapse. Humiliation Ensues…
via The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes Dept…. I’ve been meaning to post this autopsy over a week ago, but I’ve been down with a chest cold, been busy and it’s just plain embarrassing. On Saturday November 6th, 2014, the easypress.ca domain name expired at the registry, basically vaporizing a majority chunk of the easyPress […]
New credit card payment service
As of today, easyDNS is phasing in a new online payment service for credit cards. Please don’t be alarmed if you are directed through a new method.
4 Key Things To Know About Being Compliant With CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation)
CASL kicks in on July 1st, we first wrote about it here. We are still of the opinion that for many internet based businesses who are already following standard best practices for running their email lists, this isn’t that much of a big deal. (There are dissenting opinions on this, see this article) When trying […]
Growth for Growth’s Sake Leads to Nowhere
The other day I had lunch with a colleague and he brought up Matthew Woodward’s epic rant against WPEngine and he also mentioned Jason Cohen’s rebuttal post “Growth is Hard” and that set us off on a long discussion around today’s tech biz climate (which is almost synonymous with the “start-up” culture, because these days everybody […]
The New TLDs are Here. Do You Really Need Yourname.BLARGH?
It’s been a long time coming, but as of a few months ago, the onslaught of the new Top Level Domains (“TLDs”) has commenced. This is quite the game-changer because the sheer volume of new TLDs necessitates a different strategy for protecting one’s interests than was the general convention of the past. In the past, […]
