If you are living in the United States, you should have heard about SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and Protect-IP, which, when passed, would give companies rights that they should not have. If it passes, IP rightsholders (a term vaguely defined) could send notices to payment processors or ad services like Google Adsense to force [...]

Categories: The Web

You can save lots of money with coupons. As a webmaster, I have to buy and renew domain names and web hosting on a regular basis. Take the popular domain registrar Godaddy for instance. A new .com registration at the registrar sets you back $9.99 currently. If you use a coupon, you can register the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I have been trying to move a Godaddy email account to the desktop email client Thunderbird for the last 30 minutes. The main problem that I have with Godaddy’s website in general is that it is rather messy, with hundreds of links and menus. What you need is usually hidden deep inside a complex navigation [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

Back in 2005 when I started this site I had it hosted at Godaddy along with the domain. That was a comfortable thing to do as I only had to deal with one company for all my domain and web hosting needs and requests. That back then did not turn out as well as well. [...]

Categories: The Web, Web Development

Some webmasters develop a keen sense for spotting valuable domain names. They might be reading an article, thinking about something or discussing something with friends or coworkers. It makes “pling” suddenly and they have the idea for an excellent domain name. If only it would be still available. The usual way to check that would [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I would like to write a short review about a cool domain suggestion tool that I discovered lately. Bust a Name is not your usual domain search engine, it is highly flexible and has a speedy nice interface. You start your domain search by typing in at least one word that should be part of [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web