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by freejack 15y ago
I run a profitable registrar at scale and can appreciate the comments about low margin, costs, competition, etc. My point is simply this: don't underestimate the value of a recurring revenue stream vs. a one-time payout to your business. Wi
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by freejack 15y ago
Perhaps its just my read, but I think the original post confuses revenue streams with business models with products. It seems to flip from business model to product design to revenue streams back to business models and finishes with a vague
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by freejack 15y ago
I don't disagree. I probably should have been more precise than "its a feature". My real point was more "protect the real revenue stream". Doing all the hard work to find leads, qualify them, get the lead interested in converting and then h
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by freejack 15y ago
Yeah, totally true. That still doesn't make it easy for an unknown to come in an topple and established brand. That said, Google did it.. :)
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by freejack 15y ago
Possibly, but then it feels like you are betting your brand awareness against Godaddy's. That's a tough battle to fight. And there's nothing stopping them from implementing something similar.
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by freejack 15y ago
they are definitely pursuing a business model in a pretty logical fashion, so I'd easily go with company. relying on the affiliate model feels like a betrayal in the UX and it essentially hands over one of the most obvious ongoing revenue s
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by freejack 15y ago
When I see stuff like this, I always think "feature" not a company. There are two directions you can take this to avoid the "but its just a feature" issue - a) build it so that you can license the technology to people that have made a compa
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by freejack 15y ago
yes, and my point unless the market allows for competition to .com, then we've effectively given control of the namespace to one or two organizations - namely Verisign and ICANN. I don't understand your point about competition creating a mo
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by freejack 15y ago
Its not. But a lobbyist said so at some point and it gets repeated as truth.
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Tucows joins SOPA Blackout: Corrupt Legislation driving us to the Darknet(tucowsinc.com)
5 points by freejack 15y ago|0 comments
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by freejack 15y ago
And on that basis, it makes sense to create a monopoly and concentrate very real control over vast tracts of the namespace with unregulated private corporations? Sounds like a great plan. I'm always amazed at the large numbers of people tha
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by freejack 15y ago
I'm super pleased to see this move ahead. Competition has been absent from this segment of the market for far too long. I'm really looking forward to seeing some flowers bloom.
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by freejack 15y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. I just don't think it will be a very large or important market. Sorta like the market for calculators, which is limited to those interested in curiosities, the nostalgic buyer and those with highly specialized needs
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by freejack 15y ago
I've always thought e-readers are bit like calculators. Great purpose built devices that will eventually end up being useful features on more general purpose devices. I agree that e-readers offer a way better experience today and at some po
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Can licensing Blackberry OS save RIM?(blogs.barrons.com)
1 points by freejack 15y ago|1 comments
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by freejack 15y ago
I've never understood this point of view. I wonder if these same managers drive down the highway with their gas pedal pushed all the way to the floor in an attempt to get 100% utilization out of their car purchase. Silly. It feels so natura
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by freejack 15y ago
I agree that for phone apps, this works well, but disagree that it ports well to tablets. I mean, it is okay for tablets, perhaps better than some other approaches, but I really believe that a different primary navigation method is needed f
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by freejack 15y ago
Yeah, that and "don't release shit". It doesn't matter how well it conforms to the definition of MVP, if its crap, it won't matter. A proof-of-concept can be absolute crap - i.e. cardboard, whiteboard, whatever... I don't think MVP can. An
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by freejack 15y ago
I can see why the original headline might have been edited for clarity - the mental leap from "porno site" to "productivity porn" is non-obvious. I'd be more inclined to chalk this one up to miscommunication (the bad headline) and good inte
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by freejack 15y ago
Neat. Any thoughts on what the revenue model might look like? My first inclination is that this might not be a big enough problem, but there are a number of examples of recurring group activities where prior confirmation is useful - running
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by freejack 15y ago
The view of the customer is the one that counts. Don't get me wrong, I really like what you've all done here. I'm just trying to understand it better thats all. All the downvotes imply to me that I'm not communicating well this morning ;-)
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by freejack 15y ago
Its both, but primarily status. If you drill down, you'll see the long term stats.
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by freejack 15y ago
Stats are back... weird :-) http://about.hover.com/networkstatus (as an aside, making it easy for customers to see uptime/downtime and network events eases the burden on customer service and makes it much easier for potential customers to
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by freejack 15y ago
No not really, although again the value of the stats all depends on what is being monitored and how, etc. For example, Pingdom can report that an SMTP interface looks just great while at the same time it is impossible to send mail on that p
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by freejack 15y ago
the data is pretty meaningless unless they include a definition of downtime and how they are measuring it. For instance, they could be monitoring from an internal network and their methodology might not pick up external network outages that
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by freejack 15y ago
Employing a Freemium model without having a strong path to the "mium" part (i.e. converting free users to paid users) is a weak model. In this case, it didn't even sound like a real freemium model anyways - a free version and a paid versio
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by freejack 15y ago
heh - yeah, that's like 10-20 startups worth of cap! ;)
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by freejack 15y ago
I think this is less a story about a failed News Corp. ambition and more a story about how the music and telephone industries have developed first rate competencies at stifling innovation. Hearing stuff like this makes me really sad for the
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by freejack 15y ago
Yah, this is all super topical.
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by freejack 15y ago
If you are in North America, check out https://www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing/needers.html for details concerning address delegations. I work for a registrar, so here are my biased recommendations - me (hover.com) or EasyDNS. But

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