Dutch Boyd, a professional poker player and part time domain investor, has launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds for a book about his career. Boyd is looking to raise $5,000 to fund the book, which is called Poker Tilt, and he has raised $715 from 14 backers so far.
Here’s some more information about Boyd and what the book will be about:
Domain Boardroom, the popular private domain forum with a membership of about 250 active domain investors, has been advertising-free since its inception. That is changing, and the forum is now offering limited advertising opportunities in conjunction with DBR’s Fun Fest.
I asked Donna Mahony to provide details about the advertising opportunities that are available, and Donna provided the following information:
f you’ve completed a large domain name acquisition or sale, it’s likely that you used Escrow.com for the transaction. At the present time, Escrow.com only allows for transactions in US dollars, but that will soon change.
In April of this year, the company plans to begin offering clients the ability to make purchases or sales in Euros. They will not be doing any currency exchanges, so when a transaction is started in Euros, it will be disbursed to the seller in Euros. As always, funds will be held in a non-interest bearing trust account at Bank of America.
According to Andee Hill, Director of Business Development at Escrow.com, “over half of Escrow.com transactions involve an international buyer or seller.” Based on customer feedback and statistics, the Euro makes the most sense to be used in addition to US Dollars. The company may expand into additional currencies as demand dictates. The fee structure will closely mirror the current fee structure the company uses for US Dollar transactions.
This is going to be a big deal for the company and it will save international customers quite a bit of money. They will no longer need to worry about currency exchanges, which can take several points off of both ends of a transaction. This is especially important on large deals.
I will let you know when Escrow.com begins offering to transact using Euros. I am told it will be right around the time of the Domaining Spain conference at the end of April.
Domain name industry veterans Rick Kirkendall and Richard Lau have relaunched a redesigned Resume.com website. As you might expect, the website is a “resume hosting & job service provider that allows job seekers to upload their resumes & employers.”
From what I understand, Kirkendall and Lau acquired the name within the past three years, and they started this joint venture shortly thereafter. The pair also own the plural Resumes.com.
Despite the fact that the resume search term is ultra competitive in this difficult job market, Resume.com consistently ranks in the top of Google and Bing for related search terms. The relaunched website looks sleek, is highly functional, and will presumably produce results for users and for its owners.
Congratulations to Rick and Richard on the re-launch. Wishing them both much continued success.
I haven’t heard much buzz about the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), and I suspect you probably haven’t either. In fact, if it wasn’t for a blog post by Namecheap, I probably wouldn’t know that it’s re-emerged.
Here’s how Namecheap has summarized the issue with CISPA should it be passed into law:
“CISPA, which emerged in 2012, has been rebirthed this week as an even bigger threat to online freedom. If CISPA is passed, the US government gains the power to shut off Internet traffic and empowers the US government to ask your ISP about your online activities in the efforts to learn about possible cyber security threats and Internet attacks. Advocated under the premise of anti-terrorism legislation, this legislation is so broad that it threatens to endanger the privacy of every individual and ordinary and law abiding citizens. This act makes your private online activity now public, giving ISPs the right to share your personal information completely without your knowledge, due process, or authorization.”
As its done in the past, Namecheap is trying to raise awareness about CISPA by making a financial pledge tp the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). For every tweet and re-tweet mentioning its blog post, Namecheap is pledging a $.10 donation to the EFF. If you register or transfer a .com, .net, or .org domain name to Namecheap, you can save $1.00 using promo code CISPAalert, and in addition, the company will donate $.10/name to the EFF.
Not only is this a great way to get people to know about CISPA, but it also shows Namecheap’s marketing prowess. Over the last couple of years, the company has donated over $100k to the EFF as a results of efforts such as this.
If you’d like to read more about CISPA and what others are saying, I encourage you to check out the following articles on the topic:
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