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Traffic Down Under Is Only 45 Days Away

Published on October 2, 2008 in Domain Names. 4 Comments

Our friends at Fabulous are working on the new Traffic show, Traffic Down Under. The projections I hear are over 250 attendees. As .Com.Au is a hot domain extension these days (the Australian government recently made some chances to the .AU registry) I expect many local businesses to attend as well.

Unfortunately I may not be able to attend however RMG CEO Darren Cleveland as well as RMG Co-founder/CTO Jeff Bhavnanie will.

This show is more than a domain show, it is more than a “domainers’ gathering”. This show is the excuse you’ve been waiting for to visit beautiful Australia.

Have a great day,

Sahar

It’s Been a Month..

Published on October 1, 2008 in Domain Names and General. 6 Comments

It’s been a month since I last updated the blog. During that month I mainly rested, focused on reading, as well as visited the Traffic show in New York City. The show I felt was a success, the food was great, Rick and Howard once again delivered on their promise, that is, bringing the best in the industry together. While I missed most of the panels due to meetings I had a chance to catch a couple, and I truly enjoyed those.

I participated on one panel and talked about the dynamics around the world that work against us. In short, I talked about why everybody hates us (domainers), and what we should do about it.

A quick Bido update, we are still testing the site, added new features, spent way too much on new hardware. We expect to bring Bido back in about 2-4 weeks. Our other offerings, portfolio management software DNZoom and PortfolioHelp are up and running and doing great. PortfolioHelp, since introduction, helped a number of top domainers move around to better solutions (making more money). If not for NDA I would post those here, however, as you all know, domainers do like their privacy, and we of course must respect that.

I’m still on a break for another month or two, will try to update the blog possibly in between.

Have a great day!

Sahar

Break Time

Published on September 1, 2008 in General. 7 Comments

Taking a break for a little while.

Cheers,

Sahar

Life At LifeMemory.Com

Published on August 28, 2008 in Recall Media Group. 3 Comments

Recall Media Group’s LifeMemory.com is a supporting site for our FuneralHomes.com directory. In short, it can be described as a MySpace for memorials, without the social networking aspect. It is an extremely flexible site-builder web application, easy to use, as well as comes with many pre-loaded templates for our visitors. LifeMemory is a unique project of ours, not just from a business perspective, but a personal perspective. Telling the stories of loved ones in a way which is as unique as the individual, we feel is of utmost importance.

To see how our visitors use the site see the following memorial pages below.

John Blomberg (1935-2008)

June Elizabeth Tolbert (1936-2008)

Julian Ortiz (1984-2008)

William Daugherty (1928-2008)

Rachel Kuskamp (1089-2008)

Clyde Barnett (1923-2007)

Tim Goostree (1960-2008)

We can choose to be sad for losing those we love, or we can choose to celebrate the precious time we had on this planet to spend together, to share life. I choose the latter.

Have a great day,

Sahar

IREG Andrew Miller, Mike Zapolin Help Former U.S President Bill Clinton To Acquire…

Published on August 27, 2008 in Domain Names. 5 Comments

Andrew and Zappy met with Bill Clinton in NYC, after helping him to acquire key Intellectual Property

Direct link to Internet Real Estate Group

I spoke with Andrew Miller to learn more. The domain in question is PresidentClinton.com.

Have a great day,

Sahar

And You Thought Your Domain Traffic Was Secure? According To Wired, The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole Revealed

Published on August 26, 2008 in Domain Names and General. 0 Comments

Via Wired:

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.

The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination.

The demonstration is only the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the internet’s core protocols. Those protocols were largely developed in the 1970s with the assumption that every node on the then-nascent network would be trustworthy. The world was reminded of the quaintness of that assumption in July, when researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed a serious vulnerability in the DNS system. Experts say the new demonstration targets a potentially larger weakness.

“It’s a huge issue. It’s at least as big an issue as the DNS issue, if not bigger,” said Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, noted computer security expert and former member of the L0pht hacking group, who testified to Congress in 1998 that he could bring down the internet in 30 minutes using a similar BGP attack, and disclosed privately to government agents how BGP could also be exploited to eavesdrop. “I went around screaming my head about this about ten or twelve years ago…. We described this to intelligence agencies and to the National Security Council, in detail.”

W.H.I.R: Video Interview with Mark Klein, Sedo

Published on August 21, 2008 in Domain Names. 1 Comment

A really nice interview with some insights into Sedo, one of the most successful and popular domain marketplaces in the domain space.

Via WHIR:

A few weeks back, the WHIR conducted an email interview with Mark Klein, director of business development at Sedo, and asked him to make the case for his HostingCon 2008 session titled “Tapping the Exploding Secondary Domain Market: How It Can Increase Your Revenue and Customer Loyalty.”

Afterwards, I caught up with Mark at Sedo’s booth and asked him to give us some further insight into the maturing secondary domain name landscape and how web hosts could take advantage of it.

Enjoy,

Sahar

Bido: A Word To Our Members

Published on August 21, 2008 in Bido/DNZoom. 8 Comments

The following note below was just sent to to all Bido members. If you need any further clarification, or anything else we can do, do let me know.

Sahar

Dear Friends & Associates of Bido,

The entire team here at Bido would like to apologize to all of our users. We admit we may have gotten a little ahead of ourselves and let our emotions precede our technological abilities.

Fixedloans.com was the highest interest domain name we have listed to date and admittedly we were unprepared and simply not ready for the influx of traffic. Our technology team is currently working on the issues, however, I do not have a target date to share with you today but will keep everyone informed to the progress and re-launch date. We are committed to producing the best product possible for our users and want everyone to know we will stay committed to that regardless of the time, energy and investment it takes.

To recap the chain of events:

Tuesday August 19, 2008 1pm Fixedloans.com auction starts…

Tuesday August 19, 2008 Shortly after 2pm Bido web servers crash…

Wednesday August 20, 2008 10am, Bido is live and ready (so we think) for Fixedloans.com relisting…

Wednesday August 20, 2008 1pm Fixedloans.com auction starts…

Wednesday August 20, 2008 1:52pm Traffic from auction slows services and makes site unavailable for most users; Bido team stops auction and pulls website offline.

As you can see, yesterday we made a conscious decision to stop the auction, as access to the website was limited which is unfair to everyone. Others may have chosen a different route but that was a decision we made as an organization and we feel it was the best decision. Bido was built with domain owners in mind and many of the decisions we make are based on ‘walking a mile in your shoes’, which we do every day. Our approach and philosophy is also based on the same principals and forms the foundation of our organization.

While I am sure this will leave some unanswered questions in our customers, partners and even competitors minds, many of those questions cannot be answered at this time. I can tell you nothing has or will change our commitment to the domain name community and at some point in the near future, we will re-launch Bido.com’s one-a-day domain name auction and more, that’s for sure. The decision to keep the auction offline for the moment in no way affects Portfolio Help or DNZoom.com . Those services will remain active and continue to serve domain name owners as it does now without any interruptions.

We would like to take this time to thank everyone that has made Bido a success. Without your participation we could not have done it. In addition, the support has been tremendous and we want to extend our gratitude and appreciation to everyone for it! Yes we are human, yes we admit we should have probably held off a few more days or weeks, who knows but we are constantly learning new things every day.

This will be a lesson we learn from and one that will only make us that much stronger and wiser when the time is right to bring Bido back! As always, we welcome your feedback and appreciate your understanding and patience as we figure this thing out! If I can personally be of assistance to anyone, feel free to reach me at the number listed below.

Thanks in advance,

Darren Cleveland
President
Bido, LLC
On behalf of the entire Bido Team!
561-330-2544 x-301
dc@bido.com

Get in touch by Email:

administrator@bido.com

Mail:

Bido.com LLC
2240 Woolbright Road #203
Boynton Beach, Florida 33426

Telephone:

1-800-462-4119

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Few Videos I Want To Share

Published on August 21, 2008 in Business and Domain Names. 2 Comments

Last couple of days I thought of publishing few videos but the more I waited, the more were added to the list.

First, the excellent interview from All Things Digital of Mark Zuckenberg, Facebook founder.

Second, a movie trailer of Bottle Shock, a movie about a single event in Paris in 1976 which changed the wine industry forever.

Third, internet marketer Jennie Armato of Web Business Academy on Domain Names

There’s also CBS News video (can’t embed, disabled) about baby names domain names.

And lastly, again, I can’t even embed the video here (disabled) but this video, “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne, recently became YouTube’s #1 most watched video. How many you ask? Right now it is showing 97,622,959, soon will break the 100 million views. Just Incredible for one single video, today and probably 50 years from now as well.

Enjoy,

Sahar

Bido Auctions No More (For Now)

Published on August 20, 2008 in Bido/DNZoom. 22 Comments

We gave it another shot today but still had major tech issues. We believe the right thing to do now is to spend time figuring out the issues and come back when we are ready. It may be few days, weeks, months, none of us really knows.

All who submitted domains to Bido we will work with you to get it back to your accounts.

Other Bido services, DNZoom and Portfolio Help, will continue to run normally once we get servers back online.

I will update on this more later.