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.coms, .nets, .orgs and dot whatevers.

etoy-victory.txt

“THE LAWSUIT AGAINST etoy IS DROPPED! according to the etoy.LAWYERS chris truax in san diego and peter e. wild in zurich eToys Inc. gave up its naive fight against the famous international art group etoy this tuesday after a long and exhausting dispute about the terms and conditions of this settlement.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Wednesday, January 26th, 2000 at 12:00 am
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The Right Name Is Critical For Upstart Dot-Coms

“Andrew Busey felt like he had a hot idea for a business: a Web site that sold bookshelves, beds and other furniture. But the name Mr. Busey was using for the company, he knew, was an unequivocal dud. ‘ForMyHome.com didn’t roll off one’s tongue,’ he says. So like dozens of budding Internet entrepreneurs, the 28-year-old Mr. Busey embarked on the increasingly tricky chore of finding a better company name.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, January 20th, 2000 at 12:00 am
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Register.com to Allow 10-Year Domain Registration

“http://www.register.com/ Register.com Inc. Wednesday announced plans to offer single and multiple-year domain registration services, providing flexibility and savings for those who register domain names. Starting in mid-January, customers will be able to buy .com, .net and .org d

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, January 6th, 2000 at 12:00 am
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Register.com, NSI Broaden Domain Name Offerings

“Domain name registration giant Network Solutions Inc. and one of its largest competitors, Register.com, both moved to expand their product lines [yesterday], marking a continuing wave of competition in what a year ago was a monopoly field. Network Solutions, which is already by far the largest retailer of names in the most popular ‘.com’ and ‘.net’ Internet domains, today announced it would soon begin selling names in many of the more than 200 country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) maintained by sovereign nations.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, January 6th, 2000 at 12:00 am
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Uptime

“Uptime periodically requests a page from your server. If the site is unreachable, Uptime sends you email. Uptime will continue checking your site. When it becomes reachable again, Uptime will send you one more message.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Monday, December 20th, 1999 at 12:00 am
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The Public DNS Service

“This is a public service provided by Granite Canyon Group, LLC. The Service offers both primary and secondary DNS free of charge to anyone who asks. The Service maintains UPS protected FreeBSD servers that satisfy DNS queries. The Public DNS is useful if you: Can’t get free service from an ISP and don’t want to do it yourself, Need secondary DNS servers, Need MX records for a virtual domain, Want control over your DNS records: change DNS frequently, changing ISPs soon, Are inside of a firewall and need publicly-accessible name servers outside of your firewall, Need name servers that are closer to the North American Internet backbones.”

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Sunday, December 19th, 1999 at 12:00 am
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Domain name registries around the world

All the dot.whatevers there are.

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, December 14th, 1999 at 12:00 am
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yourname.tekky.com

Get your own subdomain address: ‘yourname.tekky.com.’ They say there are no pop-ups, banners, frames…

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Tuesday, November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am
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Sam Spade Tools

Whoo-eee… Neat tools and lookups page.

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Wednesday, November 24th, 1999 at 12:00 am
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uSucK!

Get a redirecting domain from WHATEVERYOUWANT.usuck.com. It’s free.

Posted by Bill Keaggy on Thursday, November 11th, 1999 at 12:00 am
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Kronos video

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Check out this video we made for Kronos to help celebrate International Women's Day, 2011. Learn more in this xBlog post or jump over to YouTube and watch it there.

Azure poster

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XPLANE | Dachis Group developed a A vibrant, engaging poster showing how Microsoft Azure enables developers to run applications and store data on Microsoft servers. The poster recently took top honors in the American Business Awards.

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