Carl Mercier's blog » ajaxwhois http://blog.carlmercier.com me = entrepreneur + hacker; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:38:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ajaxwhois acquired! http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/02/25/ajaxwhois-acquired/ http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/02/25/ajaxwhois-acquired/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:49:44 +0000 Carl Mercier http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/02/25/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 as much as I wanted lately, being busy with Defensio and stuff. Selling Ajaxwhois made a lot of sense to me at this point: I really want to see the site evolve and I was no longer the guy for that.

I have a secret to share… Before saying my last goodbye to Ajaxwhois, I had to do a little something, right? Well… Before concluding the transaction, I did (yet another) a complete rewrite in Ruby. Ajaxwhois now runs on Thin and Merb! The code is much cleaner and I optimized the algorithms to make everything snappier.

]]> http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/02/25/ajaxwhois-acquired/feed/ 2 Network Solutions stealing domain names! http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/01/09/network-solutions-stealing-domain-names/ http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/01/09/network-solutions-stealing-domain-names/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:33:21 +0000 Carl Mercier http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/01/09/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 of a nifty little website called Ajaxwhois.  It allows you to lookup any domain name (including .ca, .uk and so on) and to perform whois queries on them.  All of this is, of course, ajaxified to the fullest extent.

The good thing is that Ajaxwhois does NOT send queries to ANY domain registrar and I certainly won’t steal the domain names you search for.

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