Just before the 2000 Olympics I put up the official Olympics Suck website. It's not much really, but mention it anyways for those who feel the Olympics suck!:-)
The enclusion of this so-called trusted sender seal, especially since it will likely be highly standardized, will make filtering of spam easier than ever before; and bouncing back "trusted sender" spam in bulk will be a cinch too:-)
Infrasound, sounds below the normal range of human hearing, present a small, but real threat many people. Infrasound can greatly effect one's mood and health.
Low frequency sounds can travel thousands of miles and is used for military communications. In some areas, such infrasounds can be EXTREMELY LOUD...some sources of very intense infrasound include manufacturing, some vehicles, long-range military transmission equipment, and of course various natural sources including thunderstorms, earthquakes and volcanoes - and according to current theory, infrasound partly explains the bizarre behavior of some animals before an earthquake, etc.
EMFs are everywhere and if the people in the article really are sensitive to them, then how can they have electricity in their house or use the telephone?? Electrical systems produce a large amount of EMFs and thus I would assume these folks would all live in candle-lit houses or at minimum live in houses with highly shielded electrical systems costing tens of thousands...but instead it appears they live in ordinary homes.
Anyways, in my view, these folks ought to worry more about infrasound than EMFs.
Since Rob (cmdrtaco) is making such a big deal about Yahoo advertisements that are incidently clearly marked as advertisements, I wonder what his reaction will be when Slashdot itself begins much more aggressive advertising.
For those who missed it, about two months ago Rob posted an article here explaining that Slashdot was seriously considering running large ads (kinda like CNet, etc) and possibly pop-ups, etc sometime in the first quarter of 2002 (ie. about now) too since standard banner ads aren't getting enough click-throughs.
Oh boy, it's going to be interesting to see the backlash from readers here when the BIG ANNOYING Yahoo like ads showup here on Slashdot - then perhaps Rob's article was just a red herring to test the waters so to speak to test reader reaction to Yahoo like advertising so Slashdot can see how aggressive they can be with their own advertising. Enjoy the final days of relatively ad-free Slashdot...
Many people type in domain names. Some of my company's adult oriented domain names such as cocksuckers.com and fucked.com get thousands of visitors daily. And many do cum again:-)
There's certainly value in generic domains in.COM, but the real question is a similar value in other TLDs. To date, it appears there is not. For example, adult oriented generic.ORGs and.NETs are typically worth about 1% of their.COM counterparts. And ccTLDs are often worth even less - often to the point of being practically worthless.
Your organization fouled up the.INFO and.BIZ TLD launches more than I ever thought possible - I couldn't have done it any better if I'd tried. As a result you have saved us many individuals, businesses, governments, etc who operate services in the legacy gTLDs (.COM,.NET,.ORG) much money - no need for us to register duplicate domains in every new TLD when they are poorly managed, unreliable, and unpopular with the public.
And as an added benefit, any new TLDs that come down the pike will be tainted and present relatively little threat and thus saving all of us even more money - but really ICANN, we both know the deal here...the introduction of new TLDs was designed to fail - real businesses, etc already have the domains they need in the legacy gTLDs and/or can afford to acquire the domains they need - there's really no need to add TLDs other than to make it look like ICANN was doing something, while in reality just maintaining status quo.
Just when I thought it was safe to run Linux on my home PC there comes this news. I'm still trying to figure out what that mysterious NSA registry key in Windows does...yes, such a key really exists in Windows - do a search here on Slashdot or Google for more info.
Anything put out, funded, etc by the NSA or any other agency should be considered suspect until PROVEN otherwise...and before anyone here says "but it's open source"...keep in mind there have been numerous instances of serious bugs, weaknesses, etc found many years after various open source programs were released.
Bottom line: Just because a particular program is open source, does NOT automatically mean that particular program can truly be trusted.
I've received two series of emails from Neulevel within 24 hours of each other saying that many of my.BIZ domain name applications conflict with trademark claims (most of which are dubious at best) that some other people have made.
The Neulevel emails then go onto to say that one must login and "complete" their.BIZ applications very soon or they are automatically canceled (possibly as soon as Monday?). Seems simple enough, but it's not...and this is where things get interesting. Neulevel encloses the required Password in the email, BUT NOT the required Username. Neulevel says in their email that one is supposed to use the user ID they were assigned by their respective.BIZ Registrar.
However, I can't login to complete my.BIZ applications and I bet others can't either...a.BIZ scam in the making...? Keep in mind that persons who made trademark claims paid approx $90 USD for each claim and thus Neulevel has an incentive to make things easier for them and more difficult for everyone else.
In many instances the perspective.BIZ registrant has either forgotten their user ID, or was never assigned one by their respective.BIZ registrar, or inexplicably their so-called user ID isn't accepted by Neulevel's system.
Perhaps Neulevel is counting on many perspective.BIZ registrants not being able to complete their.BIZ applications due to the complexity of their system - giving one their password and not their user ID is highly unusual and appears to me to be intended to make the confirmation process so difficult and confusing that many perspective.BIZ registrants can't do it...and even worse, many people won't even realize their.BIZ applications will NEVER be submitted because they never received any emails from Neulevel and/or couldn't understand the procedure.
I sincerely hope that Neulevel sends out a followup clarification email that contains ALL the information that a perspective.BIZ registrant needs to complete their.BIZ application(s). Anything less is unfair and unethical.
Some buildings for senior citizens here in Reading, Pennsylvania have had such setups since the 80s - all residents have access to multiple video camera feeds on their TVs - to change to a different camera view, they just change the channel.
Word to the wise, encrypt your critical traffic since a good deal of internet communications is vulnerable to being intercepted at NAPs (Network Access Points) as well at other major connection points. Private peering arrangements routed outside of NAP (ie. MAE-East, MAE-West, etc) facilities can reduce risk in some instances, but typically can't eliminate all risk since the majority of internet traffic travels through at least one major NAP; and the exact connections, etc are often unknown to all parties, even to the people who operate the NAP facilities.
In closing, governments, etc are typically years ahead of the media and common-knowledge in regards to intellegence gathering. NAP tapping is never mentioned in the media, but I'm sure it's happening. Be forewarned:-)
Any company that trusts their business to Adcops are fools and deserve everything or in this case nothing they will get other than incompetence. CNN covers crap like this...guess AOL really has taken the media to a whole new low.
ICANN's new TLD choices are more lame than I'd expected. I figured on some heavy-hitting TLDs like.WEB and.NOM or even.TEL. Instead ICANN chose what amounts to token TLDs...because for all intensive purposes the new TLDs will have limited appeal and usefulness...for example:
museum: How many people will actually use that TLD?
Heck, many people can't even spell museum!
biz: redundant to.COM and in the eye of some people.biz has negative connotations and will instill images of con artists and second rate businesses in their minds; many people will feel that real business uses.COM
.info: Actually not a bad TLD...but certainly not a top TLD choice in my view since its appeal will be limited.
.name: Terrible!!.NOM would have been a much better choice...why did ICANN pick.name over.nom??
.aero: About as limited as.museum - why so many limited use TLDs...doesn't make sense to me.
.pro: Seems redundant to.name in the sense that.pro is also aimed towards individuals - many people who register their name in.name will also do so in.pro.
.coop: The most ridiculous TLD of the bunch...some ICANN folks flew the coop when they chose to approve this one...coop is a totally useless TLD.
Bottom line is that.COM's dominance is not threatened in any way from these new TLDs...in fact the contrary will be true....COM will be more valuable and sought than ever before. Thanks again ICANN for keeping.COM #1!!
First the problems with the proposed.SEX &.XXX TLDs:
The proposed TLDs.SEX and.XXX seem well intentioned as a way of partitioning off adult oriented materials from minors, etc.
Seems sensible, but how does one exactly define adult oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa.
And what happens when ICANN or whoever decides to go the next step and restricts adult oriented materials to only certain TLDs - for example.SEX and.XXX only.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
In the end TLDs such as.SEX and.XXX will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
In regards to problems with the proposed.KIDS TLD:
Many of the same points above apply to.KIDS too...
How does one exactly define kid oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa. For example, nudity in many parts of the world such as parts of Europe and Japan is not considered harmful to children. On the other hand, violence aimed at children is widely tolerated in the United States, but not content containing nudity.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
And as I said above, in the end TLDs such as.KIDS will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
TLDs should be used to better categorize content, but not to restrict it. While.SEX,.XXX, and.KIDS TLDs are well intentioned, all three of these TLDs are all primarily intended to restrict content as opposed to merely categorizing it. It's very important to keep this distinction in mind when considering new.TLDs.
Bottom line is that TLDs should be for categorizing content, not restricting content which is what the proposed.SEX,.XXX, and.KIDS TLDs would do.
I just registered spacefungus.com, spacefungi.com, and spacemold.com. Not sure if there will ever be any use for them, but since NASA and other space agencies, etc abroad consider space fungi a real problem I suspect these domains have some value.
But then again, maybe not...but hey someone has to keep Verisign (the.COM,.ORG,.NET, &.EDU Registry) in business:-;
Anyways, I don't feel the space fungus is much of a problem...unless the space fungus starts growing on the outside of MIR, then it's time to be very worried!
Many people tried voting yesterday and received error messsages saying their username/password/pin were incorrect when trying to cast their vote even though they were able to login.
Number = 50101
Description = Invalid credentials. Your member number, PIN code and password combination is incorrect.
Source = Component.ApplyVote failed
The sad part is that Election.com had no one monitoring the ICANN election 24/7 since attempts by many ICANN Members to contact Election.com regarding the voting problems were unsuccessful. Surely, one would expect better oversight over an election of such importance.
It sucks so much I even put up a "suck" website recently in protest; and just added a guestbook so others can too share their views too of how the Olympics suck!
Olympics Suck: overpaid athletes, cheating,
big money, and corruption.
First off, the FuckedCompany.com sale is most likely a publicity stunt at best, but hey I can't blame the guy for wanting to cash in...I know since I already have:-)
With that said, why settle for FuckedCompany.com when FUCKED.COM is available for sale and it's a proven money maker! See ValueNames for pricing details.
The Olympics continue to get worse and worse. There was a time when Olympic athletes had to be amateurs...these days professional athletes are permitted to compete in the games; while one may argue there's nothing wrong with that, it's a reflection of how the Olympic games have changed from being an athletic event where athletes competed to see who was the best...these days the Olympics is all about who can make the most money.
Key is to know your rights as well as having some money to burn...sadly the more money one has, the easier finding hosting becomes. In regards to location - I find it comical as well as downright scary when I see others advocating that the safer places for hosting is Russia...wow that really goes over the top!! Have things changed that much since the Cold War??
As some other posters have pointed out, while some people here in the U.S. are looking offshore, many people from all around the world host their content on servers in the United States. If a U.S. citizen has to worry about hosting legal, but contraversal, materials on servers here then perhaps it's time for another Revolution.
In regards to your hosting choices:
Verio - Big hosting company (world's largest?). They have numerous divisions and each is somewhat different in what they allow (some allow adult, but most don't) though in general Verio has a hands-off policy.
Valueweb - An economy host. Service is what about what'd you expect for the price. I've hosted protest sites there and never had a problem - I even got a Cease and Desist letter for a site I had hosted there and they kept it running.
Concentric Networks (formerly 9 NetAve) - good rates and decent virtual hosting, but avoid their dedicated hosting since they've had problems. In regards to freedom of speech...many controversal sites are hosted with them...however if a site is adult and/or draws a lot of bandwidth, expect to pay MUCH more. It's too early for me to say how them now being owned by Concentric Networks affects things - so far I've seen no change.
Rackspace - Good service and they generally mind their business and leave the content upto webmasters.
In regards to who to avoid...the free hosting places (Tripod/Geocities, Go Network, etc) as well as small Mom and Pop hosting companies in general since they'll usually cave in quickly since they're often at the mercy of their of their upstream provider(s) as well the owners may have strong personal opinions of their own.
If one is looking offshore, I'd recommend NetNation - many sites, in particular many illicit drug related sites, have moved over to them as a result of the possible passage of the Anti-Meth bill.
Hope this helps...feel free to contact me if you have further questions and/or want to hear my view regarding a particular website you plan to put up.
Ron Bennett
Does NOT even load with Java Disabled - very bad!
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I just clicked in BOO.COM and was very surprised to get an error page instead telling me to turn on Java...see link below:
http://www.boo.com/needsomething.html?error=noja va
I can't recall any other major commerce site that forces users to use Java...the people running BOO.COM must live in different universe since Java causes nothing but problems and presents serious security risks so many people including myself disable it.
In the end BOO.COM will go down in history as a case study of how *not* to design a commerce website.
First off, you're not charging enough for advertising if you're only grossing $20,000 per year. I run several sites including some that get similar traffic and they gross much more than yours. Your ad rates are probably too low.
With that said, I've sold domain names alone for more than than what you're selling your whole site for...seriously regardless of what people tell you, your site regardless of its content is worth more than $250,000...heck even as a forwarder to an adult site, it's worth more. Add in the content and the fact that you have paid advertisers, that really increases the value...
I'd say $500,000 USD for sure.
If the domain name is simple and unique and/or protected...that is you've bought up variations of the domain and/or registered it as a service mark then the value goes up even more.
I'd say those above protections add at least a few hundred thousand dollars in value.
Now you're approaching seven figure territory...
If your site is trully unique and is in a niche market, then it's worth even more yet...
So in summery, if it's a music site as some have said it is, then I'd say go for around $500,000 and negotiate from that.
If it's in a unique niche with few other players, then $1,000,000+ USD is reasonable, but without knowing more about the site I can't give a more precise figure.
Even though you've already made an offer of $250,000 you can always revise it...either downward (obviously) or UPWARD...simply explain you've reevaluated its value and it's worth $500,000 or whatever amount to you. If they balk, then try to negotiate...at least if anything you'll feel better about the sale in the end knowing you got what the site is really worth...and I bet you'll be able to get more than $250,000...heck even $300,000 is an improvement.
Lastly, don't forget about taxes...your $250,000 will quickly become much less...so in the end you could have little to show for all your work.
Bottom line is ask for more...if they're serious and you play it cool, you'll probably get much more than the $250,000 you are now asking.
Good Luck!!
Ron Bennett
p.s. If you need any help selling the site or want more help pegging a price, feel free to email me.
Many programmers including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have used psychedelics at one time or another. So while many techies steer clear of heroin, cocaine, etc, they may indulge cannabis (marijuana), shrooms, or even LSD...as well as using 'clubdrugs' like Esctasy at parties.
I personally don't use illicit substances now, but I have and don't regret it at all...in fact I now run the largest cannabis (marijuana) website in the world - CANNABIS.COM (or just CANN.COM for those too stoned to spell:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Just before the 2000 Olympics I put up the official Olympics Suck website. It's not much really, but mention it anyways for those who feel the Olympics suck! :-)
Olympics Suck
The enclusion of this so-called trusted sender seal, especially since it will likely be highly standardized, will make filtering of spam easier than ever before; and bouncing back "trusted sender" spam in bulk will be a cinch too :-)
Infrasound, sounds below the normal range of human hearing, present a small, but real threat many people. Infrasound can greatly effect one's mood and health.
Low frequency sounds can travel thousands of miles and is used for military communications. In some areas, such infrasounds can be EXTREMELY LOUD...some sources of very intense infrasound include manufacturing, some vehicles, long-range military transmission equipment, and of course various natural sources including thunderstorms, earthquakes and volcanoes - and according to current theory, infrasound partly explains the bizarre behavior of some animals before an earthquake, etc.
EMFs are everywhere and if the people in the article really are sensitive to them, then how can they have electricity in their house or use the telephone?? Electrical systems produce a large amount of EMFs and thus I would assume these folks would all live in candle-lit houses or at minimum live in houses with highly shielded electrical systems costing tens of thousands...but instead it appears they live in ordinary homes.
Anyways, in my view, these folks ought to worry more about infrasound than EMFs.
Since Rob (cmdrtaco) is making such a big deal about Yahoo advertisements that are incidently clearly marked as advertisements, I wonder what his reaction will be when Slashdot itself begins much more aggressive advertising.
For those who missed it, about two months ago Rob posted an article here explaining that Slashdot was seriously considering running large ads (kinda like CNet, etc) and possibly pop-ups, etc sometime in the first quarter of 2002 (ie. about now) too since standard banner ads aren't getting enough click-throughs.
Oh boy, it's going to be interesting to see the backlash from readers here when the BIG ANNOYING Yahoo like ads showup here on Slashdot - then perhaps Rob's article was just a red herring to test the waters so to speak to test reader reaction to Yahoo like advertising so Slashdot can see how aggressive they can be with their own advertising. Enjoy the final days of relatively ad-free Slashdot...
Many people type in domain names. Some of my company's adult oriented domain names such as cocksuckers.com and fucked.com get thousands of visitors daily. And many do cum again :-)
.COM, but the real question is a similar value in other TLDs. To date, it appears there is not. For example, adult oriented generic .ORGs and .NETs are typically worth about 1% of their .COM counterparts. And ccTLDs are often worth even less - often to the point of being practically worthless.
There's certainly value in generic domains in
ICANN-
.INFO and .BIZ TLD launches more than I ever thought possible - I couldn't have done it any better if I'd tried. As a result you have saved us many individuals, businesses, governments, etc who operate services in the legacy gTLDs (.COM, .NET, .ORG) much money - no need for us to register duplicate domains in every new TLD when they are poorly managed, unreliable, and unpopular with the public.
:-)
Your organization fouled up the
And as an added benefit, any new TLDs that come down the pike will be tainted and present relatively little threat and thus saving all of us even more money - but really ICANN, we both know the deal here...the introduction of new TLDs was designed to fail - real businesses, etc already have the domains they need in the legacy gTLDs and/or can afford to acquire the domains they need - there's really no need to add TLDs other than to make it look like ICANN was doing something, while in reality just maintaining status quo.
Thanks again ICANN
Sounds like a great advance, but sadly I fear such information will also be used by some to develop even more deadly biological weapons.
Just when I thought it was safe to run Linux on my home PC there comes this news. I'm still trying to figure out what that mysterious NSA registry key in Windows does...yes, such a key really exists in Windows - do a search here on Slashdot or Google for more info.
Anything put out, funded, etc by the NSA or any other agency should be considered suspect until PROVEN otherwise...and before anyone here says "but it's open source"...keep in mind there have been numerous instances of serious bugs, weaknesses, etc found many years after various open source programs were released.
Bottom line: Just because a particular program is open source, does NOT automatically mean that particular program can truly be trusted.
I've received two series of emails from Neulevel within 24 hours of each other saying that many of my .BIZ domain name applications conflict with trademark claims (most of which are dubious at best) that some other people have made.
.BIZ applications very soon or they are automatically canceled (possibly as soon as Monday?). Seems simple enough, but it's not...and this is where things get interesting. Neulevel encloses the required Password in the email, BUT NOT the required Username. Neulevel says in their email that one is supposed to use the user ID they were assigned by their respective .BIZ Registrar.
.BIZ applications and I bet others can't either...a .BIZ scam in the making...? Keep in mind that persons who made trademark claims paid approx $90 USD for each claim and thus Neulevel has an incentive to make things easier for them and more difficult for everyone else.
.BIZ registrant has either forgotten their user ID, or was never assigned one by their respective .BIZ registrar, or inexplicably their so-called user ID isn't accepted by Neulevel's system.
.BIZ registrants not being able to complete their .BIZ applications due to the complexity of their system - giving one their password and not their user ID is highly unusual and appears to me to be intended to make the confirmation process so difficult and confusing that many perspective .BIZ registrants can't do it...and even worse, many people won't even realize their .BIZ applications will NEVER be submitted because they never received any emails from Neulevel and/or couldn't understand the procedure.
.BIZ registrant needs to complete their .BIZ application(s). Anything less is unfair and unethical.
The Neulevel emails then go onto to say that one must login and "complete" their
However, I can't login to complete my
In many instances the perspective
Perhaps Neulevel is counting on many perspective
I sincerely hope that Neulevel sends out a followup clarification email that contains ALL the information that a perspective
Some buildings for senior citizens here in Reading, Pennsylvania have had such setups since the 80s - all residents have access to multiple video camera feeds on their TVs - to change to a different camera view, they just change the channel.
Word to the wise, encrypt your critical traffic since a good deal of internet communications is vulnerable to being intercepted at NAPs (Network Access Points) as well at other major connection points. Private peering arrangements routed outside of NAP (ie. MAE-East, MAE-West, etc) facilities can reduce risk in some instances, but typically can't eliminate all risk since the majority of internet traffic travels through at least one major NAP; and the exact connections, etc are often unknown to all parties, even to the people who operate the NAP facilities.
:-)
In closing, governments, etc are typically years ahead of the media and common-knowledge in regards to intellegence gathering. NAP tapping is never mentioned in the media, but I'm sure it's happening. Be forewarned
Why don't just email them all...all 1328 email addresses!!!
... they'll soon know very well what a slashdot is :-)
Yep, I've got the whole email database...wasn't that hard really...just had to use the trusty old wildcard * in the fields to get an email dump.
To view all 1328 email addresses, just visit McKinney Schools Emails - use wildcards * in fields to dump all
Just click the url below...enjoy the benefits of membership for FREE.
http://www.adcops.com/members/
Any company that trusts their business to Adcops are fools and deserve everything or in this case nothing they will get other than incompetence. CNN covers crap like this...guess AOL really has taken the media to a whole new low.
Anyways enjoy your free tour of the meseum!
ICANN's new TLD choices are more lame than I'd expected. I figured on some heavy-hitting TLDs like .WEB and .NOM or even .TEL. Instead ICANN chose what amounts to token TLDs...because for all intensive purposes the new TLDs will have limited appeal and usefulness...for example:
.COM and in the eye of some people .biz has negative connotations and will instill images of con artists and second rate businesses in their minds; many people will feel that real business uses .COM
.NOM would have been a much better choice...why did ICANN pick .name over .nom??
.museum - why so many limited use TLDs...doesn't make sense to me.
.name in the sense that .pro is also aimed towards individuals - many people who register their name in .name will also do so in .pro.
.COM's dominance is not threatened in any way from these new TLDs...in fact the contrary will be true....COM will be more valuable and sought than ever before. Thanks again ICANN for keeping .COM #1!!
museum: How many people will actually use that TLD?
Heck, many people can't even spell museum!
biz: redundant to
.info: Actually not a bad TLD...but certainly not a top TLD choice in my view since its appeal will be limited.
.name: Terrible!!
.aero: About as limited as
.pro: Seems redundant to
.coop: The most ridiculous TLD of the bunch...some ICANN folks flew the coop when they chose to approve this one...coop is a totally useless TLD.
Bottom line is that
First the problems with the proposed .SEX & .XXX TLDs:
.SEX and .XXX seem well intentioned as a way of partitioning off adult oriented materials from minors, etc.
.SEX and .XXX only.
.SEX and .XXX will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
.KIDS TLD:
.KIDS too...
.KIDS will probably result in ICANN dictating content too.
.SEX, .XXX, and .KIDS TLDs are well intentioned, all three of these TLDs are all primarily intended to restrict content as opposed to merely categorizing it. It's very important to keep this distinction in mind when considering new .TLDs.
.SEX, .XXX, and .KIDS TLDs would do.
The proposed TLDs
Seems sensible, but how does one exactly define adult oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa.
And what happens when ICANN or whoever decides to go the next step and restricts adult oriented materials to only certain TLDs - for example
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
In the end TLDs such as
In regards to problems with the proposed
Many of the same points above apply to
How does one exactly define kid oriented materials? -especially considering the internet is an international medium. What is considered adult oriented here in the United States isn't elsewhere and vice-versa. For example, nudity in many parts of the world such as parts of Europe and Japan is not considered harmful to children. On the other hand, violence aimed at children is widely tolerated in the United States, but not content containing nudity.
And how would such content restrictions be enforced?
And as I said above, in the end TLDs such as
TLDs should be used to better categorize content, but not to restrict it. While
Bottom line is that TLDs should be for categorizing content, not restricting content which is what the proposed
I just registered spacefungus.com, spacefungi.com, and spacemold.com. Not sure if there will ever be any use for them, but since NASA and other space agencies, etc abroad consider space fungi a real problem I suspect these domains have some value.
.COM, .ORG, .NET, & .EDU Registry) in business :-;
But then again, maybe not...but hey someone has to keep Verisign (the
Anyways, I don't feel the space fungus is much of a problem...unless the space fungus starts growing on the outside of MIR, then it's time to be very worried!
Many people tried voting yesterday and received error messsages saying their username/password/pin were incorrect when trying to cast their vote even though they were able to login.
Number = 50101
Description = Invalid credentials. Your member number, PIN code and password combination is incorrect.
Source = Component.ApplyVote failed
The sad part is that Election.com had no one monitoring the ICANN election 24/7 since attempts by many ICANN Members to contact Election.com regarding the voting problems were unsuccessful. Surely, one would expect better oversight over an election of such importance.
The whole Olympic experience downright sucks!
It sucks so much I even put up a "suck" website recently in protest; and just added a guestbook so others can too share their views too of how the Olympics suck!
Olympics Suck: overpaid athletes, cheating, big money, and corruption.
First off, the FuckedCompany.com sale is most likely a publicity stunt at best, but hey I can't blame the guy for wanting to cash in...I know since I already have :-)
With that said, why settle for FuckedCompany.com when FUCKED.COM is available for sale and it's a proven money maker! See ValueNames for pricing details.
The Olympics continue to get worse and worse. There was a time when Olympic athletes had to be amateurs...these days professional athletes are permitted to compete in the games; while one may argue there's nothing wrong with that, it's a reflection of how the Olympic games have changed from being an athletic event where athletes competed to see who was the best...these days the Olympics is all about who can make the most money.
Olympics Suck Website - Learn the Truth!
Some of the sites I host include:
Key is to know your rights as well as having some money to burn...sadly the more money one has, the easier finding hosting becomes. In regards to location - I find it comical as well as downright scary when I see others advocating that the safer places for hosting is Russia...wow that really goes over the top!! Have things changed that much since the Cold War??
As some other posters have pointed out, while some people here in the U.S. are looking offshore, many people from all around the world host their content on servers in the United States. If a U.S. citizen has to worry about hosting legal, but contraversal, materials on servers here then perhaps it's time for another Revolution.
In regards to your hosting choices:
Verio - Big hosting company (world's largest?). They have numerous divisions and each is somewhat different in what they allow (some allow adult, but most don't) though in general Verio has a hands-off policy.
Valueweb - An economy host. Service is what about what'd you expect for the price. I've hosted protest sites there and never had a problem - I even got a Cease and Desist letter for a site I had hosted there and they kept it running.
Concentric Networks (formerly 9 NetAve) - good rates and decent virtual hosting, but avoid their dedicated hosting since they've had problems. In regards to freedom of speech...many controversal sites are hosted with them...however if a site is adult and/or draws a lot of bandwidth, expect to pay MUCH more. It's too early for me to say how them now being owned by Concentric Networks affects things - so far I've seen no change.
Rackspace - Good service and they generally mind their business and leave the content upto webmasters.
In regards to who to avoid...the free hosting places (Tripod/Geocities, Go Network, etc) as well as small Mom and Pop hosting companies in general since they'll usually cave in quickly since they're often at the mercy of their of their upstream provider(s) as well the owners may have strong personal opinions of their own.
If one is looking offshore, I'd recommend NetNation - many sites, in particular many illicit drug related sites, have moved over to them as a result of the possible passage of the Anti-Meth bill.
Hope this helps...feel free to contact me if you have further questions and/or want to hear my view regarding a particular website you plan to put up.
Ron Bennett
I just clicked in BOO.COM and was very surprised to get an error page instead telling me to turn on Java...see link below:
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http://www.boo.com/needsomething.html?error=noj
I can't recall any other major commerce site that forces users to use Java...the people running BOO.COM must live in different universe since Java causes nothing but problems and presents serious security risks so many people including myself disable it.
In the end BOO.COM will go down in history as a case study of how *not* to design a commerce website.
First off, you're not charging enough for advertising if you're only grossing $20,000 per year. I run several sites including some that get similar traffic and they gross much more than yours. Your ad rates are probably too low.
With that said, I've sold domain names alone for more than than what you're selling your whole site for...seriously regardless of what people tell you, your site regardless of its content is worth more than $250,000...heck even as a forwarder to an adult site, it's worth more. Add in the content and the fact that you have paid advertisers, that really increases the value...
I'd say $500,000 USD for sure.
If the domain name is simple and unique and/or protected...that is you've bought up variations of the domain and/or registered it as a service mark then the value goes up even more.
I'd say those above protections add at least a few hundred thousand dollars in value.
Now you're approaching seven figure territory...
If your site is trully unique and is in a niche market, then it's worth even more yet...
So in summery, if it's a music site as some have said it is, then I'd say go for around $500,000 and negotiate from that.
If it's in a unique niche with few other players, then $1,000,000+ USD is reasonable, but without knowing more about the site I can't give a more precise figure.
Even though you've already made an offer of $250,000 you can always revise it...either downward (obviously) or UPWARD...simply explain you've reevaluated its value and it's worth $500,000 or whatever amount to you. If they balk, then try to negotiate...at least if anything you'll feel better about the sale in the end knowing you got what the site is really worth...and I bet you'll be able to get more than $250,000...heck even $300,000 is an improvement.
Lastly, don't forget about taxes...your $250,000 will quickly become much less...so in the end you could have little to show for all your work.
Bottom line is ask for more...if they're serious and you play it cool, you'll probably get much more than the $250,000 you are now asking.
Good Luck!!
Ron Bennett
p.s. If you need any help selling the site or want more help pegging a price, feel free to email me.
Many programmers including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have used psychedelics at one time or another. So while many techies steer clear of heroin, cocaine, etc, they may indulge cannabis (marijuana), shrooms, or even LSD...as well as using 'clubdrugs' like Esctasy at parties.
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I personally don't use illicit substances now, but I have and don't regret it at all...in fact I now run the largest cannabis (marijuana) website in the world - CANNABIS.COM (or just CANN.COM for those too stoned to spell
Life would be boring without drugs
Many end-users do not use Java due to security concerns and also since Java often causes browsers to crash (at least on Window machines).
Slashdot generally runs fine for me on my 56kb (44kb typical connect) dial-up connection.