How to Value Domain Names
A nerd’s Guide to the Business of Domain Names

Domain name speculation is a game/business that started the 1990’s, where less than savvy investors got hosed and bought up domains for huge sums of money … sometimes in the millions.

Like any speculative bubble, once the public smells easy money, whole industries are created and the game goes on until there aren’t any suckers left. See housing and the .com bubble days for examples.

Every once in a while, something very big happens that affects the Web in general. Recently the iPad came out blowing away the market and effectively shutting down Flash by not allowing Flash to run on iPads.

… Yes, Flash is dying.

Unlimited Domain Names

When your business grows so does the number of clients. Hence, it becomes difficult to keep track of accounts. Companies have separate departments to do the billing, however freelancers cannot afford to have such a facility. This is why web based invoicing software has come as a boon to freelancers which support and control their commercial...

A few months ago my ancient computer finally had enough and stopped working. So a few days later I bought a new one. My new computer was great and all was working well but all of a sudden all my WordPress sites stopped working, I could not make new installations, if I upgraded a site it would stop working, even my themes were not working properly...

Part two of last week's examination of the personality of punctuation. Click here to read Part 1.

Em Dash and Hyphen

Em dashes and hyphens are sisters, and whenever they go out together, they get stopped by strangers.

"Are you twins? You all look so much alike!"

At this, they roll their eyes. Sure, they look similar, but it's obvious — to them, at least — that they're each completely unique.

It's easy to resent punctuation. Its purpose is to clarify sentences, so why are the rules governing it so complicated? There are so many exceptions, so many exceptions to exceptions — it's enough to make you want forego punctuation