I used to say in a very offhanded way that if the global governance and due process issues continued unaddressed, or the affronts to multi-national sovereignty got worse then the logical outcome, eventually, would be a “net-split”. A Net-split from the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) parlance is when a cohesive network – like the internet – splits off […]
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There Are Two Types of Businesses…
I reread yesterday’s post. It seemed a bit of a suckfest. Sure it’s all true. So what do you do about it? A couple years ago I started writing a book, working title, Punch Above Your Weight: How To Survive & Thrive Going Toe-to-Toe Against the 800lb Gorilla In Your Space. I got a fair […]
Track Your Vendors and Eliminate Spam with Canary Domains
The other day I came across a great blog post that explained how the author setup a domain name with “catch-all” or “wildcard” email forwarding which enabled him to track which of his online vendors were selling his email address or otherwise spamming him. This is called using “canary email addresses”, I’ve been doing it for a […]
The Domainer Life Comix: Episode #1 – The “Domain Parked” Page
What is your registrar doing with your parked domains? Well if we’re your registrar, we’re just parking them. Optionally, we enable you to customize your parked pages in a variety of handy ways. But if we’re not your registrar, who knows? Most other registrars monetize their own customers’ parked domains by running pay-per-click ads on […]
