pResolutions, like Best Of lists, are traditional slices of tedium wedged into the hind quarters of our shared circuitous solar orbit, and yet here I am virtually cutting in line in front of every other blogger to hasten forth a litany of resolutions which, let’s face it, I will have entirely abandoned before any Founding Fathers’ birthdays have hussled in fabulous savings at discount furniture stores. I suppose this self-flagellation is a disturbing penance for transgressions I know I’ve perpetrated on an unsuspecting audience, and like hitting yourself with a whip for having the naughty thoughts, I’m not sure the punishment is any better than the crime itself./p pI concede, these kinds of lists are fundamental navel gazing, best served with hypercritical self deprecation and an artifice of humility, a necessary counter for the fact that I harbor an ulterior motive to manipulate other games-writers in sharing my goals. For me, I execute that kind of literary tap dance by ejaculating thesaurus rich words that conjure disturbing imagery. Hopefully my peers will be so busy scrubbing their minds’ eye with steel wool that they won’t notice being nudged off a cliff. /p pNormally there would be a paragraph here that indulges in one of my primary sins, but instead of falling into comfortable hack habits, I cede this paragraph to resolution one./ppa href=http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/42524read more/a/p

Having working in the domain name industry myself for a couple of years, I’ve always been intrigued by the fact that there’s such a big business formed around something as trivial as a bunch of letters and numbers used to ‘translate’ IP addresses. And when there’s a big business in something, you just know there will be a grey area as well where ethics are left at the door sometimes.

Andrew Allemann over at Domain Name Wire has been doing an excellent job researching the hoops The Go Daddy Group jumps through to keep its shady tactics outside of the public view, resulting in this great blog post. Turns out The Go Daddy Group, which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy.com as well as some other domain name related companies, is apparently warehousing its customers’ expired domain names and directly profiting from them.

Warehousing and auctioning off expired domain names is not necessarily against ICANN (the governing body over domain name registration) regulations and actually quite a common practice among larger registrars, but the story only gets interesting when you take a look at what goes on behind the transparent part of it. When a valuable expired domain doesn’t sell through an auction on The Domain Name Aftermarket (aka TDNAM, GoDaddy’s auction platform), The Go Daddy Group changes the ownership of the domain to one of its lesser known subsidiaries, Standard Tactics LLC, using Domains By Proxy’s whois privacy service to hide its identity. Next thing you know, that company will start monetizing the domain names using parked domain pages filled with ads and list the domains for resale on TDNAM.

On August 16, 2005, GoDaddy formed a subsidiary called Standard Tactics, LLC in New Mexico. Before founding Standard Tactics, all of GoDaddy’s subsidiaries were incorporated in Arizona where the company is headquartered. There are a couple reasons GoDaddy may have chosen to form the company as a New Mexico limited liability company rather than an Arizona corporation. First, by creating the company in New Mexico it could distance itself from it. Second, by filing as a limited liability company instead of a corporation, it didn’t have to list directors of the corporation.

In fact, Standard Tactics LLC is a subsidiary of Special Domain Services Inc, which is a subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc, which is a subsidiary of The Go Daddy Group. See a pattern here? The only reason why we even know this is because the information got out when GoDaddy attempted to file for an IPO in 2006 (it eventually withdrew the filing).

So why is Go Daddy going through such lengths to keep the public from knowing about its aftermarket operations, when it’s not even against ICANN regulations? Paragraph 3.7.9 of the agreement between ICANN and Registrars says:

“Registrars shall abide by any ICANN adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registrars.”

Only problem is ICANN hasn’t yet adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing, leaving registrars in a unique position to impact domain name pricing top-down by introducing competitive bidding or auctions for expired domain names.

It’s really no wonder GoDaddy is trying to cover its tracks and hide these practices, but thanks to Andrew the word is now out.

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So just yesterday I was charging my ipod. When registering, I accidently put replacement ipod (though I also just have a regular ipod sharing the same computer with my iTouch now). I saw that my old songs where downloading onto my new itouch. Not likeing most of the songs, I quickly exited iTunes and stopped charging my itouch.

Anyways, after that I clicked on one of my four apps. to play with, but they would load momentarily then quickly exit on me before I could actually play around on the apps (I have Urbanspoon, Spawn, Translator and iDoodle2lite). I began fiddling around with the iTouch in hopes to fix it, I began moving the icons arounds and noticed that all 4 has small 'x's in the top corner.

There still not working from me and this is day two or three. DId I do something wrong that caused this to happen like stated in the first paragraph? Please HELP!!!!!!!

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William Gillis, a 70-year-old San Diego resident, has filed suit against Apple for false advertisement of the iPhone 3G.  He specifically cites the #8220;twice as fast for half the price#8221; ad as a huge lie, because the network speeds are #8220;grindingly slow#8221;.  Apple, of course, is fighting back. Several blogs have pointed out a paragraph in [...]div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=m0DAzJa6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=FlFA614c"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=qeestaqH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?d=198" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=h9WnR6B6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?i=h9WnR6B6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=GJIuoVfO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?i=GJIuoVfO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LaptopMagazineNews/~4/ne1yMcWF-yE" height="1" width="1"/

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The soap opera of would-be Mac cloner Psystar was already full of shady twists and turns, but there's a possibility Apple's legal team thinks there's some truth to a few of the wilder conspiracy theories out there -- a paragraph tacked on to an amended version of the complaint filed in California says that Apple believes people or corporations "other than Psystar are involved in Psystar's unlawful and improper activities." That could mean just about anything, of course -- we've always thought Psystar was being a little too cocky, and no one's ever figured out how a fledging company that couldn't even hold on to a credit card processor could retain such a hotshot law firm -- but chances are Apple's just covering its ass in case it wants to sue the major investors of Psystar individually or even the OSx86 hackers that unwillingly enabled the company's dubious business. Either way, with all of Psystar's antitrust counterclaims dismissed and Apple adding new DMCA claims to its lawsuit, we've got a feeling things are about to go boom in Florida pretty soon -- if machines really are still shipping, this is probably your last chance to grab a piece of (semi-functional) history.

[Via Daring Fireball]

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OK,
Now I'm trying to understand the difference between various thingemy's in CSS.

We have ID's and, as highlander always said, "There can be only ONE!" (on each page). That's "just the rule with ID's. OK, don't know why, but OK.

Then we have, say, headings H1 H2 etc... or "element selectors".

h1 { etc etc etc


Then we have .class selectors that apply to all bits labelled that way in the html in the document.

.leader is the example for the leading paragraph.

When do I use a class and when an element sector? It seems to me like I could make all my CSS .class selectors or all element selectors, depending on which involved less typing. Which one for what job?