Yesterday the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a record penalty of $10.2 million against Southwest Airlines based on the claim that SOuthwest had continued to fly 46 Boeing 737s that it said it had grounded because they had not been properly inspected for fuselage cracks. Four of the planes had four-inch-long cracks, requiring repairs and six of the planes had the start of small … [Read more...]
Skenzo.com: The first 4 days under Yahoo: Our results are in
So we now have our stats for the first 4 days since Skenzo switched to the Yahoo feed from the Ask.com/Google feed. So here is what we found. Overall our revenue dropped 10%. Many domains did much worse and many others did much better. Comparing the revenue for the Monday, before the change, with the revenue for the Monday after the change, we found that domains accounting for 60% of the … [Read more...]
Letters you will be receiving if you the Snowe Bill Passes
Here is a e-mail we received a week ago: """I am the owner of a large web development company about to embark on a project for ............. and noticed you are inappropriately squatting on and selling their rightful domain name. I am writing this on his behalf and at the moment offering you a settlement now of $50 to transfer ownership of ................................. to my client. The … [Read more...]
Sign the Petition to Stop the Snowe Bill
This came to us from the conceptualist.com and the DomainNews.com: Go sign the petition, we did. Get your family and friends to sign it to. Have you joined the ICA yet? “US Senator Olympia Snowe introduced S. 2661, the “Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008” (APCPA). The bill was also cosponsored by Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Ted Stevens (R-AK). The bill threatens to … [Read more...]
Ask.com to become a Women Q & A Site
Ask.com has thrown in the towel in chasing internet search leader Google and instead will focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives. Ask.com will lay off about 40 employees, or 8 percent of its work force. According to it's press release, Ask.com will return to its roots by concentrating on finding answers to basic questions of especial … [Read more...]
Enom takes away “Cuba” domain names: What it Means to You in light of the Snowe Bill
In an article published today in the New York Times, it was reviled that Enom.com shut down around 80 domains owned by a non-US citizen and resident, Steve Marshall. It is important to note that, Mr. Marshall is a British national, lives in Spain where he operates a travel agency selling trips to Europeans who want to travel to Cuba and his servers are located in the Bahamas. The only … [Read more...]
How Do You Feed the Fish??
A few weeks ago, I was in Hawaii with my wife and we ate in a restaurant surrounded by a huge Koi fish pond. There were 15 tables around the water and we were all throwing food in to the water to feed the fish. Here is what I noticed, 14 of the tables just dropped the food down into the water's edge. The vast majority of the fish collected right at the edge and fought each other for the … [Read more...]