Dunno about "switched on" (I still prefer Melbourne IT's domain management tools, probably because I wrote them admittedly), but they're cheaper and fast.
Most companies DO have some type of contact information for technical service and emergencies...
Of course the DO have the contact information. Its just not usually posted on their websites, instead supplied to those likely to need it. I'm sure ICANN has MelbIT's emergency contact information. I'm sure Yahoo and other resellers have it.
As companies push customers more and more towards email for customer care, customers try harder and harder to get someone on the phone.
How would YOU like to be the hapless system administrator getting woken up at 3am because some idiot forgot to update his admin email address and wants you to do it for him?
I'm not excusing the behaviour, but I can't fault it.
The system administrators (and I'm sure the CEO) don't want users finding their contact information and calling them to ask them to change their contact information.
How many companies DO put this information online/
That's because some registries allow you to specify IPs, and others don't.
I probably should have added code to the form to not display the IP boxes if the domain space was known not to support it, but I could never get a clear answer as to which ones did and didn't.
Plays DivX, MOV, etc. Pretty much anything you can throw at it, except WMV and Real (but who cares about them anyway...).
About the only thing I'd want it to do that it doesn't currently would be handle multisession data disks so I can add files to compilations as new... er... "episodes" become "available".
It's also got a monitor output, so if my housemate's using the TV I can plug it into my computer's monitor and deprive/. of posts like this one:)
Having not ridden a bike for years until 2003/2004, the first thing I asked when I bought my bike was how I should handle road-riding.
I was told that my bike's a "wheeled vehicle" and is thus entitled to a lane according to the road rules here (Victoria, Australia).
It's a bit of give and take... usually drivers don't bother me, and I usually don't need too much space in the lane anyway. But its nice that they change lanes to avoid me. (Maybe its the rifle;))
I find that in the city, where people are used to couriers etc people are pretty good about staying far out of my way. The problem is when you take those sensibilities to the suburbs. I've had verbal altercations with motorists in the suburbs over it -- in the end, its not worth the argument (and the smack around the ears with the crowbar).
And yeah, I get concerned when I'm riding on the road-side of parked cars with cars passing me.
Err yes - last updated in 2002 by the looks of the copyright message on the front page.
So how do you reverse SFV-syndrome?
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Now that we've all read about it, how do you go about REVERSING the problem?
For those of us who are in organisations who are falling victim to SFV-syndrome, how do you stop it before it goes too far?
CAN you stop it once it's started, or is it impossible to stop because that will result in a large-scale loss-of-face for lot of people who are higher up the food chain than you?
And at the last... what do you do when they just don't listen?
One comment I've seen noted about the whole SiteFinder thing is that Verisign now resolves domains which are not available for registration, so it's possible they're profiting from something that they're not allowing others to purchase.
(Try www.a.com, www.b.com, etc... you can't buy single character gTLDs)
> And of course, by the time you want to
> register anything in those domains, it'll
> be gone - trademark holders get a special
> express line to register domains in the new
>.TLD's before they are generally available.
Sheesh! Cliff, this is just badly researched.
Where.biz is concerned, trademark and intellectual property holders (the people who would probably SUE you if you register their name in the new TLD space) get to lodge their CLAIM to their trademark or IP before registration of any kind starts.
After lodging the IP Claim, they still have to go back to a Registrar and PRE-REGISTER along with EVERYONE ELSE who is pre-registering domain names AT THE SAME TIME.
The IP Claim system is NOT a domain name registration system in any way shape or form.
If this is going to be the case, what is the use to have new TLDs if the same people that own the actual domains for their brand can
have the new TLDs too ??
Because the new TLDs (well, some of them at least), unlike the current gTLDs, aren't at this stage a complete free-for-all.
DISCLAIMER: I work for Melbourne IT, take this comment with as much salt as you see fit, and I have a pepper shaker here too if you really want it...
I'm in a similar position to the original poster. I know enough about computers in general and my system setup to find nothing of interest in most of the newbie guides, and the only other documentation is at the other extreme of the scale - Unix-god.
What I'm missing is somewhere to go and ask what I'd consider basic questions of an unusual nature. Such as, "Why does my FTPd-BSD have problems with PAM authentication?" or "Where are my LOG_FTP messages going?".
I can't just run onto IRC and ask it, because I'm told to either "read the docs" (thanks, did that, no help) or "search the web" (again, did that, no help) or met with stony silence. I'm loathe to keep asking friends to fix things on my system because I don't learn anything by it, and really would like to.:)
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I believe they also hiked up renewal and registration charges mid-2003 by some extravagant amount
Nope, if anything the renewal prices went down a little in mid-2003.
Dunno about "switched on" (I still prefer Melbourne IT's domain management tools, probably because I wrote them admittedly), but they're cheaper and fast.
Likely not, Bruce is Australian.
Most companies DO have some type of contact information for technical service and emergencies...
Of course the DO have the contact information. Its just not usually posted on their websites, instead supplied to those likely to need it. I'm sure ICANN has MelbIT's emergency contact information. I'm sure Yahoo and other resellers have it.
As companies push customers more and more towards email for customer care, customers try harder and harder to get someone on the phone.
How would YOU like to be the hapless system administrator getting woken up at 3am because some idiot forgot to update his admin email address and wants you to do it for him?
I'm not excusing the behaviour, but I can't fault it.
Yep, I hear you.
I left my old job over being forced to move to Cocoon instead of PHP.
Rick Berman said today he's working on a new Trek feature film that will have "a larger scope and budget" than ever."
How the heck can he get Paramount to agree to that after the last two films tanked at the box office?
I've used Enetica quite happily.
Last I checked, Bruce is the CTO not the CEO.
This is fair enough.
The system administrators (and I'm sure the CEO) don't want users finding their contact information and calling them to ask them to change their contact information.
How many companies DO put this information online/
That's because some registries allow you to specify IPs, and others don't.
I probably should have added code to the form to not display the IP boxes if the domain space was known not to support it, but I could never get a clear answer as to which ones did and didn't.
I bought a Digitrex off Ebay for about AU$160.
... er ... "episodes" become "available".
/. of posts like this one :)
Plays DivX, MOV, etc. Pretty much anything you can throw at it, except WMV and Real (but who cares about them anyway...).
About the only thing I'd want it to do that it doesn't currently would be handle multisession data disks so I can add files to compilations as new
It's also got a monitor output, so if my housemate's using the TV I can plug it into my computer's monitor and deprive
Oh, and it even plays DVDs...
So from that we can assume that Dell sells 10% of its computers with Linux. :)
Gotta agree with the above comment.
... usually drivers don't bother me, and I usually don't need too much space in the lane anyway. But its nice that they change lanes to avoid me. (Maybe its the rifle ;))
Having not ridden a bike for years until 2003/2004, the first thing I asked when I bought my bike was how I should handle road-riding.
I was told that my bike's a "wheeled vehicle" and is thus entitled to a lane according to the road rules here (Victoria, Australia).
It's a bit of give and take
I find that in the city, where people are used to couriers etc people are pretty good about staying far out of my way. The problem is when you take those sensibilities to the suburbs. I've had verbal altercations with motorists in the suburbs over it -- in the end, its not worth the argument (and the smack around the ears with the crowbar).
And yeah, I get concerned when I'm riding on the road-side of parked cars with cars passing me.
Did I have a point or did I just ramble.....
... because noone knows how to quote properly anymore, everyone's previous emails are already nested in every email I get!
Am I the only one that finds it amusing that they're complaining that similarities haven't been "fixed"?
All I get when I try is a little page telling me that since it's not available "in your country" yet, all I can do is browse and not buy.
:)
Global commerce. Heh.
Point of the message is, not everyone who's downloaded iTunes for Windows *can* buy music from the store, even though we'd like to...
Err yes - last updated in 2002 by the looks of the copyright message on the front page.
Now that we've all read about it, how do you go about REVERSING the problem?
... what do you do when they just don't listen?
For those of us who are in organisations who are falling victim to SFV-syndrome, how do you stop it before it goes too far?
CAN you stop it once it's started, or is it impossible to stop because that will result in a large-scale loss-of-face for lot of people who are higher up the food chain than you?
And at the last
One comment I've seen noted about the whole SiteFinder thing is that Verisign now resolves domains which are not available for registration, so it's possible they're profiting from something that they're not allowing others to purchase.
... you can't buy single character gTLDs)
(Try www.a.com, www.b.com, etc
Melbourne IT has students for hire? I can't see any of them here at my desk...
Please, get it right. Melbourne IT is NOT Melbourne University.
I want flownthe.coop. :)
Sheesh! Cliff, this is just badly researched.
Where .biz is concerned, trademark and intellectual property holders (the people who would probably SUE you if you register their name in the new TLD space) get to lodge their CLAIM to their trademark or IP before registration of any kind starts.
After lodging the IP Claim, they still have to go back to a Registrar and PRE-REGISTER along with EVERYONE ELSE who is pre-registering domain names AT THE SAME TIME.
The IP Claim system is NOT a domain name registration system in any way shape or form.
Because the new TLDs (well, some of them at least), unlike the current gTLDs, aren't at this stage a complete free-for-all.
DISCLAIMER: I work for Melbourne IT, take this comment with as much salt as you see fit, and I have a pepper shaker here too if you really want it...
DISCLAIMER: I'm employed by Melbourne IT, so you can add as much of a bag of salt to this as you want.
What I'm missing is somewhere to go and ask what I'd consider basic questions of an unusual nature. Such as, "Why does my FTPd-BSD have problems with PAM authentication?" or "Where are my LOG_FTP messages going?".
I can't just run onto IRC and ask it, because I'm told to either "read the docs" (thanks, did that, no help) or "search the web" (again, did that, no help) or met with stony silence. I'm loathe to keep asking friends to fix things on my system because I don't learn anything by it, and really would like to. :)