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 […]
Of Interest
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, […]
What the recent US Government announcement about transitioning the root really means.
I was away when the big announcement came out. The news was, more or less, “US GOVERNMENT RELINQUISHES CONTROL OF THE INTERNET!!!!!” and I put it in all caps and underlined and with a lot of !!!! because the people who are busily talking about it in that context are typically newbie type half-wits, or […]
Definitive Proof ICANN's New Whois Verification Works
One of my own websites just got knocked offline by that new ICANN Whois Accuracy Program we told you about a few weeks ago. Recall that it’s a new policy which requires you to explicitly verify your contact info if you modify your whois record. Also, I forgot to mention this, if your email address […]
7 Great Web Hosting Screwings To Watch Out For
[ This is a reprint of the “Why Choose easyWEB” page from over on, you know, easyWEB ] Why easyWEB? While we may be latecomers to the web hosting space, in the course of helping you manage your domains and DNS for over 15 years we’ve seen pretty well every trick in the book, […]
YOU have a moral obligation to use crypto.
Today is The Day We Fight Back, a global initiative to send a message to our overlords that we’re not thrilled about being spied on, subject to mass surveillance and basically living in an Orwellian nightmare. Ordinarily we’re not big “joiners” or “petition pushers”, we think taking action has more efficacy. However, this is in […]
