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by rallison 13y ago
Just a top level domain after the @ is a valid email (e.g. foo@com). Things like this are why we end up with massive regular expressions for email validation. That said, if you are only warning the user, but not preventing them from submitt
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by rallison 13y ago
Mailcheck looks pretty interesting - I'd been considering adding some sort of client side validation for email addresses for my personal projects, and this looks pretty solid. There are a few cases that it doesn't catch that I wish it would
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by rallison 13y ago
Run your copy through a spell checker! Misspellings can easily make a professional looking site not look professional.
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by rallison 13y ago
As a current Pro user, $25 per year to continue unlimited storage, no ads (for me and for all viewing my photos) and photo statistics is still an easy sell. However, if I were signing up for an account today, I would most likely not purchas
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by rallison 13y ago
I wonder if the 200MB vs 50MB differentiation is intentional. As a Pro user, I was curious, so I tried uploading a 70MB file. The flickr uploader complained. I tried a 30MB file and it was happy. So, it appears that, at least as of now, the
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by rallison 13y ago
The "only the last 200" photos visible "feature" is now gone, as is the 300MB/month limit. Yahoo has decided to pursue the gmail strategy - offer a huge amount of free storage as compared to the competition. The ad-free plan is probably mos
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by rallison 13y ago
Keep in mind that the ad-free experience also means visitors don't see any ads when browsing your photos if you are a pro user. This may or may not be important to you, but is arguably worth the $25 per year for any use that approaches prof
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by rallison 13y ago
I believe, as of now, the price is still $25. From my own "manage your pro account page": Your Flickr Pro subscription: 1-year Pro at $24.95 Your Pro account will renew automatically on 3rd September, 2013 https://secure.flickr.com/accou
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by rallison 13y ago
If you continue to pay for the Pro account, you get no ads (the free tier is ad supported), unlimited storage space (no new plans get this, so this is a nice grandfathered bonus.. if you need more than 1TB that is) and photo stats. But yes,
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by rallison 13y ago
This only applies to existing Pro accounts, not new ones [1]. [1] https://secure.flickr.com/help/limits/#150487675
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by rallison 13y ago
Although, for existing Pro users, it looks like they can continue renewing their Pro accounts [1]: * Starting on 5/20/2013, we will no longer be offering new Flickr Pro subscriptions. After that point, the following things will happen: * *
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by rallison 13y ago
That, and in the US (and many other countries), we also now have government protections against price dumping [1]. Not to say it doesn't still happen, but there is some recourse. Regardless, a good read. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by rallison 13y ago
And I wish Google well in this realm. Given yelp's somewhat shady practices, I welcome more competition (well, I would welcome the competition regardless, but especially in this case).
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by rallison 13y ago
This actually makes the post interesting for an entirely different reason. I'd love to see further analysis on the accounts contained in this c&c center. Given that the author has the user names of a number of likely spambot accounts, I
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by rallison 13y ago
Correct. And some domains can be tough to transfer once you get too close to renewal time, so I'd recommend transferring sooner rather than waiting for the renewal date to come up.
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by rallison 13y ago
Same here. Namecheap for the common domains, Gandi for the slightly more exotic ones. I've been happy with both. I also have one domain at networksolutions (it was worth a $100 difference over five years vs gandi), but I definitely would av
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by rallison 13y ago
Same here. Given that they got hacked, given some of the other comments about the content of the post, and given that they apparently can't build a site that can handle a hackernews frontpage, I think I will continue to avoid them as a regi
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by rallison 13y ago
gandi.net. $40/year (not cheap, but cheaper than most).
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by rallison 13y ago
"The application has been received. Now awaiting payment authorization." That didn't take long.
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by rallison 13y ago
Given the rules on the domain, do you have any specific plans for your shiny new domain?
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by rallison 13y ago
It does. And it should be a legitimate concern for any startup that is hoping to rely strictly on a .io domain. The story of the vb.ly link shortener - and their seized domain - is worth reading: http://techyum.com/2010/10/official-vb-ly-l
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by rallison 13y ago
The main reason that this TLD has recently gained traction is due to google adding .io to their generic country code top level domain (gccTLD) list: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#3...
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by rallison 13y ago
Nope, not any more. Assuming your tool is correct (which, from checking other sources, it appears to be), all two letter io domains are taken, even those starting with q. There are still a decent number of letter + number domains [1], along
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by rallison 13y ago
Nice. Related, I noticed that sex.io showed up high in your list. For anyone considering registering the domain, think twice: No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is agai
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by rallison 13y ago
Sidenote: I am enjoying all of the current interest in the .io domain (speaking as someone who owns a few .io domains). As a recent addition to google's gccTLD list, it still has a ton of great names available. Part of this is no doubt due
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by rallison 13y ago
The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is, yes, but no two letter domains remain. Can you register something like d3.io? Yes. Can you register something like dx.io? No.
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by rallison 13y ago
That made my day. I actually have multiple domains pointing to the same box, and the direct ip is defaulting to a different domain than 400.io and thus different content. Still, quite entertaining.
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by rallison 13y ago
$40. And yes.
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by rallison 13y ago
Sure thing! I ended up picking up a few fun .io domains, so I figured I would give back to the hn community. After how quickly the a-z two letter domains disappeared, I was surprised to see that the majority of letter + number domains were
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by rallison 13y ago
After the large discussion about .io being delegated as a gccTLD by google[1], and the subsequent purchase of every single two letter (as in, a-z) .io domain[2], I figured I would put together a list of all free two character .io domains of

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