Okay, now this is official. It’s been reported online January 20, 2012 that SOPA’s sponsor, Rep. Lamar Smith, has postponed the bill. For all intents and purposes, SOPA is stopped. For now. Note: I said for now. It can, of course, be “resurrected” some time in the future. CNet has more: The Stop...
I just read that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill has been stopped and shelved. I hope I understood that right. SOPA and its senate counterpart Protect-IP were very controversial bills. But it so happened that SOPA got more publicity, probably because it...
Recently a thought hit me. Twitter and Facebook are two of the most popular social media sites on Earth. Many Twitter and Facebook users even utilize them to air their consumer complaints. There are enough independent studies around trying to show their value and...
Just a gentle reminder that prices for .com and .net domain names will go up on January 15, 2012. VeriSign, which manages the .com and .net Registry, announced their price increase last year. Most likely your registrar might have emailed you about it as...
Happy New Year to everyone! And hello 2012! I’ll be making some changes to my blog in the coming days. Namely: 1. Fixing the font in my pages like About and the Legal pages. Sorry about the bold font, guys! 2. Switching to Livefyre’s...
A few more hours remain before 2011 draws to a close, and then 2012 begins. To say it’s been an “interesting” year is probably an understatement. A bunch of events have occurred that involve domain names. Some weren’t so bad, others got lots of...
Just now, I’ve seen some people tweeting (messaging via Twitter) that domain registrar Go Daddy is requiring or asking for ID to transfer out of them. Of course, most (if not all) of them are outraged. I asked if anyone can show anything requiring...
Darn, I must be slow! I just found out that today – December 29, 2011 – is dubbed as “Move Your Domain Day”. Move Your Domain Day was started by domain registrar NameCheap (whom I’m an affiliate for) as a response to SOPA. In...
My Thoughts On The Go Daddy-SOPA Boycott
I know this is late. I purposefully didn’t write about this until now because I wanted to see how things go after some time. It’s been weeks ever since domain registrar Go Daddy was boycotted. This happened due to their originally supporting SOPA. As...
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