lenz: March 2008 Archives
i read about it today and still have a sms from him from last week. bernd luevelsmeyer, a good friend of mine, is gone. he was probably one of the most important influences in my work live and guided me on my way to UNIX and the console. he was the best sysadmin i ever had and was always a good friend.
sad to see the real geeks leaving this planet.
i read a brilliant post on o'reilly radar today that cited steve sounders from yahoo on website performance and how it impacts the climate change. this moves the focus more towards us tech guys and highlights once more that climate change is not just a topic for energy companies. interesting side note is that after google yahoo is the second heavy weight internet player concerned about green house gas and CO2 emissions.
as we all know there are some registrars in the US that offer domains for really good prices. these registrars are perfect for the time where your content is nothing more than ... well than what exactly?
The case of steve marshall(GB) is a really interesting one. he runs some travel pages for a mainly european audience to destinations in cuba. the pages are a bit 20th century but with a very clear message: "we sell touristic offers". as they sell offers in cuba they are conflicting with american interests and therefor they were put on a blacklist by the US treasury department. the registrar holding these domains, enom, was therefor forced (at least that was enoms interpretation) to disconnect these domains. they did that without further notice or any information to the customer.
welcome to the wild wild west ... move your domains to somewhere else, the bucks you'll spend more might be well spent.
