While stories of companies and people loosing domain names to big companies are all too common these days – I had never met a person who actually had this happen to them. When I met Asad in Toronto on a recent trip from California, he shared this experience. He registered a domain TECHAOL.COM a few years ago and had it taken from him by America Online. Take a look at the brief video interview below. Please accept my apologies for the poor lighting in the video.
Broken Telephone. You’ve heard of that before right? When one person tells a story and the next person re-tells that same story, parts of it change. By the time many people have told the story – the most recent version you hear bears little or no resemblance to the original. You can certainly blame this on creative storytelling – but it’s clear that there is something very human about getting things wrong.
When you think of it, it does seem kind of pointless to use www. nowadays. Why do we type those three letters anyway?
Recently, an eWeek magazine conducted an informal poll that showed ‘Internet Connectivity’ as the #1 concern of IT consultants. What happens when your provider goes out of business or otherwise cannot serve you? What is shocking is many companies don’t know the pain that may be involved in such a switch.
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