Gazundering hits the domain market Till now, I had no name for this abominable practice of lowering the price one is willing to pay for a domain, right after a verbal agreement is reached. After watching a CNN video about the British real estate market, I realized it already had a name: gazundering.
According to everyone’s favorite resource of general informatio...
Acro - 5/7/2008 8:45:33 AM
A Sedo broker or a McDonalds burger flipper? Your choice of employment! As I am multi-tasking away in the 25th hour of the day at my computer, my email notification “dings”; is it yet another Viagra spam or an offer from an automated user of the DRT software?
I take a sip from my Gatorade bottle - lemonade flavor is my new favorite - and I switch over
Acro - 4/29/2008 8:46:32 PM
Taxes & the Domain Man: Get a Certified Public Accountant by your side One of the best decisions I ever made, was to entrust my tax processing to a professional. No, I am not talking about those colorful individuals from H&R Block. Surely, if you’re in a hurry, as an individual with uncomplicated financial status and in no need of real savings, you can go with these guys
Acro - 4/15/2008 12:27:22 AM
ICANNT announces immediate release of all single letter .com/.net/.org domains In an unprecedented late-night meeting that lasted well into the early morning hours of April1st, ICANNT members emerged from the organization headquarters in Arlington, VA with the big news: all single letter .com/.net/.org domain names, will be released effective today, 9:45 a.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time. When the clock strikes...
Acro - 4/1/2008 2:49:57 AM
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned Every year, at Christmas, I take a large plastic water-bottle full of pennies to the Salvation Army.
It contains every penny that passed through my hands that year, which I have little use for at that time. Perhaps you’d be surprised to hear that $40 to $60 can fit in a one-gallon bottle. Little by little,
Acro - 3/28/2008 1:03:30 AM
The Dark Face of Nazism: SS.com A few years ago, I bought a “KKK” domain that was being sold at DNForum.com and gave it to an anti-hatred organization. The cost didn’t matter; at stake was a URL with the potential of being misappropriated.
A decade ago, the NAACP managed to get hold of the domain name Nigger.com to prevent it from falling
Acro - 3/17/2008 8:10:29 PM
Gender-bending on the Internet: The Ballad of Stephanie & Bobby Stephanie was in distress.
The loss of her parents in an fiery car accident left her an orphan at a young age. She was raised by her paternal grandfather, whose chronic ailments brought on many bills she was struggling to assist with. At the young age of 20, she had already become a mother and a
Acro - 3/6/2008 12:51:41 AM
Protecting your virtual assets Remember that high school kid that used to break into everyone’s lockers to steal your stuff?
Guess what, he’s now an adult and he still steals - only this time, it’s your virtual assets he’s after: your domains, your emails, access to your bank and credit card accounts. This kid simply changed the size of the...
Acro - 3/1/2008 9:45:51 PM
The fallacy of anonymity: Cowards on the Net I was in the second grade at school, when a 10 drachma coin dropped from the pocket of a girl that was chasing me in the playground.
Girls chased me ever since because I was sweet towards them - hence, an easy pray. I picked up the coin, laughed at how she failed to catch me
Acro - 2/23/2008 9:20:18 PM
Parked.com versus Sedo.com - Comparing two PPC companies In my early domaining days I was simply pointing my domains to a web form for visitors with an interest in purchasing, to leave their contact information. This went on for several years and I can easily say I lost several thousand dollars this way. In 2004 I shyly started using the parking service of
Acro - 2/14/2008 7:01:25 AM
The young entrepreneurs - a boon or a menace? At the age of 15, I was the typical teenager: doing minimal effort at school, hanging out with friends, trying to impress girlfriends. There were no computers, no cellphones, no Internet to play video games - we hang out at the arcade, feeding coins to the machines. We had time to go on trips on
Acro - 2/13/2008 12:52:10 AM
Domains and Divorce: Until Registrars do us part Forget about wedding oaths: they exist in order to be broken. People are not computers that obey to strict code commands, without ever changing their behavior, opinions and preferences. People get married and quite often, they get divorced.
A lot of married people are domain owners, or a lot of domain owners are married people. Or
Acro - 2/9/2008 8:00:28 AM
Brother, can you spare a domain? A CEO of a construction company emailed me once, emphasizing how he’d have to “put food on the family table” than pay any type of fee for a domain I owned. In fact, he outright said that he needed the domain name and by declaring his inability to pay, I should hand it over to
Acro - 2/8/2008 12:31:06 AM
Reading a domain investor’s mind: Telepathy, Inc. - An Interview A few years back, I had the pleasure of networking with Nat Cohen, President of Telepathy, Inc., a web development and Internet branding company based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded in 1999 and since then has been associated with a hearty appetite for building - among others - a portfolio of generic domains
Acro - 2/7/2008 7:00:58 AM
Brute-forcing the future: LLLLLLLLLL .com’s Six or seven years ago, I saw a market for short, easy to memorize .com domains. Short, as in 3 characters in length, including one or more numbers; because the LLL .com namespace was long gone.
I wrote a Perl script that would go through all the permutations of 000 to ZZZ - all 46,656
Acro - 2/6/2008 6:06:03 PM
Power naps - power grabs When I was growing up as a teenager, my friend Mike would always say that one should seize every given opportunity by being alert and prepared. During our trips to downtown Athens’ “Silicon Valley” shops where all the new gadgets, computers and software first appeared, Mike would bring with him a small chunk of cash...
Acro - 2/6/2008 2:19:35 AM
Domaining in a pool full of sharks and hustlers There are two distinct species of predatory fish, swimming in the seemingly calm waters of Domaining: the domain hustlers and the sharks. At least, that’s what my gut feeling tells me - and I am partial to my gut since about forty years ago.
In the coming days and weeks I will attempt to lay out
