I'm in the market to buy an existing registrar with customers and revenue. It's the next evolution of our company. We want it for security as well as a host of other reasons that I don't need to go into here. The natural thing to do would be to keep it a secret that I [...]

We’ve done one more thing to change the way domain auctions should be run. Our main competitor throws names that don’t sell into an online bidding system and runs them for another week. We are starting the online bidding a week before the live auction. You can sign up now and start bidding! The auctions [...]

It seems to me that if you are going to have a site in German, .de domains make sense. If you are going to market to the Japanese, .jp names make sense. However, in the Spanish market, there are so many countries with their own ccTLDs that the decision is a little harder to make. [...]

You have to admire a country with such a passion for ham, or Jamón to be correct in Spanish. Here in Madrid you can really splurge on the tasty asses of swine. I personally prefer the jamón ibérico which is taken from Black Ibérian pig which eats only acorns while roaming oak forests between Spain [...]

Having now returned from the Galapagos I realize I could have done the trip much more cheaply. It isn’t the kind of trip that needs business class seats and top accommodations. It was after all, an eco-tour. Nevertheless, it was nice to start the journey in Quito at the Patio Andaluz. The former convent has [...]

Tomorrow I leave for the Galapagos islands. It's the type of trip you have to book two years in advance and spend enough money to buy a small country.com to get there. Other than checking email Friday from a hotel in Quito  I'll be offline for a full week. I'm not sure if that will be [...]

I often get questions about the Lincoln in the header of this website. That car, isn't actually mine. I told my designer I had an old convertible Continental so he just looked one up on the net. Being that he lives in the Philippines, it wasn't exactly easy for him to come over and take [...]

I consider myself an amatuer historian. I've read biographies on more than half of our U.S. presidents. I love reading biographies because I feel as though reading about great men helps you become one yourself. I don't know if Obama is one of these great men but he certainly appears to have the ability to [...]

I'm a bad golfer. Ok, I'm a terrible golfer. What sucks is that I have tried so hard. I take the lessons, I get out and play, but I still suck. So what's a guy to do? Well, I suppose I'm the kind of guy that takes things to the extreme. This past weekend I [...]

This past week I was in the Philippines but that's no excuse. I've also had a terrible case of writer's block. When I first started this blog I told myself I wouldn't write about things that I wasn't interested in. Up until a week ago that wasn't a problem. There was always something that would [...]