For a long time, a lot of domain registrars have competed on price. Hardly surprising, it gets people’s attention and is probably the most common and advertised competitive choice. Some larger registrars could afford to do this, using some registrations as loss leaders and making up revenue in other ways. Check out this [...] Continue reading →

Now that RSS is “a thing” again (or is it just in its zombie phase?), I’ve decided to become a sponge for content about the city I live in. Perhaps trying to become a more informed citizen is a foolish task, and perhaps the news really is toxic — regardless, I’m now following every [...] Continue reading →

If you’re looking at this wondering what the heck is going on, here’s a primer — What is The Blogroll and who is it for? Also, if you know of an article or blog I should be reading, let me know! * Austin Kleon, quoting Alan Jacobs - Like-minded vs. like-hearted That’s how I chose [...] Continue reading →

There are exactly two types of newsletters being created today: newsletters with readability in mind and newsletters that don’t. It’s science. Just to position myself as an expert, in addition to publishing two very important weekly newsletters (the iwantmyname newsletter and a family update newsletter that keeps the parents happy), I receive roughly [...] Continue reading →

If you’re looking at this wondering what the heck is going on, here’s a primer — What is The Blogroll and who is it for? Also, if you know of an article or blog I should be reading, let me know! * Justin T. Westbrook - Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting The Car Company [...] Continue reading →

It’s hard to write a post about .id without mentioning Freud, but I’ll spare you… even though it’s repressing my unconscious need to feed the impulse. Ok ok, I’ll stop. .id is the ccTLD of Indonesia, and if Wikipedia is to be trusted, it’s “very popular.” But .id as a namespace is interesting in [...] Continue reading →

This isn’t even a dirty secret — when a domain is registered, your registration information is made public by design. I could do some fancy wordplay to explain why, but Wikipedia sums it up nicely: Currently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) broadly requires that the mailing address, phone number and [...] Continue reading →