Outage
You might have noticed that my Web site went down for a few days earlier this week. Well, I simply forgot to renew the domain registration. Quite silly of me.
That being said, Network Solutions is partly to blame for this as well. They have had outdated contact information about me for years and the couple of attempts I made to change these records (it has to be done by fax with a copy of your driver’s license) have failed. I didn’t try to fix this problem very hard, so it fell off my radar. I assume that they tried to notify me that my domain was about to expire but sure enough, they are using an old email address from an ex employer that obliterates your email account on the very day you leave the company. So no luck there.
I thought it would be a good opportunity to move to a registrar that doesn’t charge $35 a year to register a domain, such as pairnic (I have been a pair user for years now and I only have praises about their service). Unfortunately, they can’t transfer an expired domain, so I am stuck with Network Solutions for another year. It serves me right. But be assured that I won’t make this mistake again next year.
Any domain registrar that charges more than $20 a year deserves to go out of business.
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Actually, the last time this happened to me, I gave Network Solutions a call. Not only did it take days to process the payment, but they claimed that just shutting things off was the way they do things. No invoice, no e-mail. "You should log into the site periodically to check your account status, sir." Very soon afterward, I transferred all my domains to register.com.
register.com is shady as well. godaddy.com is the way to go. They pride themselves on their lack of shadiness. And, they're cheap enough that you'll probably just register for 10 years and not have to worry about it. ;)
Pair absolutely kicks ass...I have been with them for, I don't know, eight years now? Service has been _flawless_ for that whole time...
My first post in Cedric's weblog. My feeling is that JSR175 is trying to mimic what's done in the .NET platform through Attributes. To clarify what's happening on .NET: 1. The value of an attribute can be any subclass of System.Attribute. 2. There is a bunch of "generic" subclasses available for you. 3. Attributes can be accessed by using introspection. 4. If you need a custom Attribute, you need to subclass System.Attribute. Any source code that is using that attributes needs the class. So, to conclude: a. The JDK should provide a bunch of generic attributes that can be used safely. b. javac should generate an error if the class of an attribute is missing - mainly because of 3. My two cents.
Interestingly enough, Verisign just sold network solutions business for $100 million. I think they paid like 250 mil +.
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