I know, I know. US debt, European debt, worldwide debt. But let’s look at the big picture for a moment and I’m going to ask one simple question: do you think that those who lived during WW1 had it better? What about WW2? What about those who lived during the early 20th century… or those who lived during the 19th century perhaps?

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Everyone knows that I run quite a few businesses but at this point, what I don’t like is that they depend way too much on me. Sure, I love investing time in my projects but that doesn’t change the fact that at a certain point, you as the owner need to limit yourself to making important decisions and that’s it.

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In my opinion, an advertising platform powered by Facebook would represent excellent news for our industry. I was one of the first advertisers back when FB launched its self-serve platform (you could only advertise on Facebook and they still haven’t made their platform available to third party publishers) and literally saw how the costs per click evolved from peanuts to impressive.

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… how do things stand in 2011? Obviously a rhetorical question and the point I’m trying to get across should be quite obvious: if we’re talking about an industry as volatile as the parking business, domain revenue cannot be considered a reliable stand-alone metric for the simple reason that things can (and will) change in a heartbeat.

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Just got a “call” on Skype with a title similar to “System Message! Urgent Call” or something like that and thought I’d warn you guys about it. Needless to say, I declined and blocked the user in question but out of curiosity, I performed a Google search to find out how those people operate.

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I asked a pretty important question through a comment I wrote earlier today. One of my readers believes in dot tel development and was trying to explain how revolutionary this system is. Here’s a challenge for anyone in his position:

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Am I the only one who hates seeing phrases like “acquire this domain” (or even worse, “acquire this Web property”) instead of plain ol’ “buy this domain” when reading a sales thread on a domaining forum? Here’s a tip for ya: say no to “end user talk” when communicating with another domainer!

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According to a NamePros member, Dreamhost (Dreamhost is not exactly a great company btw – ok, I know, I can’t be objective because I own DomainingServers.com which is also a hosting company – but even if you don’t end up choosing me as your hosting provider, do yourself a favor and go with an option that’s at least better than Dreamhost) called all of us squatters through their newsletter.

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I know, I know, this isn’t a domaining-related rant but sheesh: is it just me being unreasonable or is there some kind of an overly mediatized news story related to the end of the world each week or at least month these days? Sometimes it’s a scientist making these predictions, sometimes a clairvoyant/whatever and this time, it’s a 89-year-old dude who thinks the world is going to end today (May 21). Oh well, it was nice meeting you guys 🙂

Congressman Darrell Issa asked one of the most ridiculous questions I ever came across: “Why do I have to pay $6,000, $8,000 or $10,000 for a domain because someone has camped on it?”. This is just unbelievable, a question which definitely deserves its own post IMO (I read it on TheDomains btw, I encourage you to read Mike’s entire post because the things that have been discussed can and will eventually affect you directly).

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