The Montreal Startup Index for July 2008 is out. To my amazement, BOTH my startups are in the top 15! Ajaxwhois (recently acquired) is at #9, and Defensio is at #13. Oddly enough, Defensio has a lot more traffic than Ajaxwhois. However, API traffic is not reflected in those rankings and since 99.9% of our [...]
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Ajaxwhois acquired!
Stop the press! My pet project of long date Ajaxwhois.com was recently acquired! The deal has been in the work for quite some time and was finalized last Thursday. I’m really excited about this since the new owner intends to make the site even better. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to maintain it [...]
Network Solutions stealing domain names!
It’s official, Network Solutions is stealing domain names from its customers (proof here and here). EVERY domain searched for is automatically registered by the company only seconds later. That’s just one more reason to not trust registrars when you’re looking for the perfect domain name. If you’re not already aware of that, I’m the author [...]
