Colombia Pictures wins dispute over domain name. “The domain! The domain!” Fantasy Island has been returned to Columbia Pictures — in cyberspace, that is. The company just won a domain name dispute for FantasyIsland.com. You can’t blame the company for not registering FantasyIsland.com when the show first aired in the 70s. Although you can [...] Continue reading →

Having used PCs since the early days of the Intel 8088-based personal computer, I’m always baffled by the amount of instability in today’s computer systems. I build my own computer systems and one would expect that the notorious “blue screen of death” (BSOD) would be a remnant of the past, since software and hardware have [...] Continue reading →

I’m going to explain it in terms that I deal with every day.  In my lawn and garden industry the resale value of a landscape company is only the value of the equipment and hard assets that they’ve built up over the years.  On the contrary, a lawn application and maintenance company has great resale [...] Continue reading →

BREAKING NEWS: An assassination attempt on Russian domain billionaire, Sergei Putanov, has been averted. Our correspondent in Ekaterinburg, Nikolai Domienenko reports: The investor and technology industries in Russia were in shock today, after news of a failed attempt to assassinate popular domain billionaire, Sergei Putanov, was made public. ITAR-TASS reports that Sergei Putanov escaped uninjured [...] Continue reading →

Today some good advice from Mika Brzezinski’s new book to pass on to your kids:==>winners never quit==>quitters never win==>know the kids names in your class==>be nice they will be happy to see you walk into your classroom every morning==>it's good to make friends as you grown up==>your job is to go to school and learn [...] Continue reading →

New domain selected as most important news story of 2011. .XXX was the “most important” domain news story/topic of 2011, according to over 1,000 people who answered the question on the 7th annual Domain Name Wire survey. Why did 25% select .xxx as the most important news story? Well, it certainly got a lot of [...] Continue reading →

Over the weekend, I received an email from Moniker that said four domain renewals could not be processed for me. I later figured out that these are names that are currently pending transfer to another registrar, but at the time of the email message, I didn’t realize that was the problem. Below the error message [...] Continue reading →