Problems validating the addresses of .uk domain registrants, which caused one registrar to dump the TLD entirely, are broader than I reported yesterday. Cronon, which does business as Strato, announced last week that it has stopped selling .uk domain names because in more than a third of cases Nominet, the registry, is unable to validate [...] Continue reading →

Greek professor Panagiotis “Takis” Metaxas teaches Computer Science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts,  doing research on online social networks, multimedia programming, parallel computing, image dithering and CS education. Professor Metaxas studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Computer Science at Brown and received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth; from there [...] Continue reading →

During the M3AAWG meeting in Brussels earlier this year, Dave Crocker and John Levine were asked to step into an impromptu video studio and talk about how email has changed over the past several decades and whether we are any closer to resolving the spam problem. Discussion begins at :48. Follow CircleID [...] Continue reading →

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One of the best ways to reduce your tax liability for 2014 is to make smart end of year purchases.  I’ve been focusing on domain acquisition and development for the past 15+ years and have collected a good sized portfolio of exact match .com names in a wide range of profitable niches – many of which [...] Continue reading →

Facebook.XYZ has been down for most of the day today, according to various media sources. On Twitter.XYZ the hashtag #facebookXYZdown was retweeted more than 2 billion times. Many distraught users visited IsItMeOrIsFacebookDown.XYZ to check on its status. “It’s ridiculous that the world’s most important social medium, with 7 billion users has been down for the [...] Continue reading →

We have recently been going through some testing of different hosting options for Flask. If you don’t know what Flask is then this is probably going to be a pretty boring article so you might want to hit the back button. If you do know what Flask is and you want to find the [...] Continue reading →