Mixed Bag

This past week has been a story of ups and downs in business.

One of the major problems I had to deal with these past couple weeks was that the company I had registered a majority of my domain names (e.g., .COMs, .NETs) has been going through some internal scandal between it's CEOs and founding members. Read more about the Registerfly debacle here.

What this means is that the company which I understands handles some hundreds of thousands of customers may suddenly go out of business, stranding people without their company or personal domain names. This is bigger then you might think... imagine if Microsoft lost use of "microsoft.com". Can you imagine how much money they would lose each day? They would pay millions to get use of the domain name back either litigiously or directly.

So now thousands of people are trying to move the domain names off of Registerfly...including me. Meanwhile the problem is confounded by the fact one or all of these people involved with the scandal is intentionally sabataging the system. So users account information is jeopardized and domain names with rightfully owned to an innocent party are being stolen under their noses and sold to the highest bidder.

Crazy huh? So this has been driving me crazy for the past couple weeks because some of my domains were trapped. I may be near the point where I've gotten most of them out & transferred to a more trustworthy registrar, but I can't celebrate until everything is confirmed.

Which brings an unintended tip to all of you with your own domain names. Watch it carefully. There is absolutely NO regulating body out there that has any real power to control the sale and handling of all these hundreds of domain name companys out there. There's supposed to be this organization named ICANN that is supposed to govern. But this incident has proven that they can't do much beyond just pulling accreditation. So it's full of shit.

For those of you who don't have domain names and don't think you need one... consider just registering a domain for your own name (e.g., www.myname.com) . You never know when you might want to use it for a personal website, AND you prevent some 12 year old from spending $7.00 to register the name himself and slandering you. Anybody, anywhere in the world can register names willy nilly. It's like the wild west and these domain names are the new gold rush. People will register anything just to turn around and extort innocent parties to paying top dollar for it. There are company's out there specifically staffed just to look for unregistered or expiring domain names and grab it...then it's like an Ebay thing. I want to just grab these muthersuckers and choke their little necks.

If you need recommendations which registrars to trust, or if you're one of the many like me who are stuck at , contact me I'll give you some tips.

Beyond this problem however, business has suddenly moved on the upswing again. Suddenly things are rolling in to the point I once again have to schedule my commitments carefully again. I think this is where I work best... I'm more wide awake today then I've been all week. Funny how business works this way. One week you're scratching your head wondering where everyone is, the next week you can't keep up.

Well, I better get back to work...