Don’t register a domain name with Names4ever. A certain company I know did domain reselling and had over 60 domains registered with them. While attempting to change the contact information on one domain, they got a page full of SQL errors.
The Names4ever server just upchucked code all over the place and changed changed ALL the contact info on ALL the domains.
That meant 60+ domain names were now all stolen from their rightful owners and assigned to someone else!
Contacting Names4ever did no good. It took them 6 days of hemming, hawing, stalling, hedging, and escalating to finally admit that they had no way to restore the lost information.
Let me tell you, I have some experience as a registrar, I have worked with CORE and their system can tell you every single change to a domain record for at least the last five years.
Leaving aside the fact that such a thing couldn’t happen there at all, if it did, it would be fixed.
The problem was eventually corrected, manually, tediously, using other available records.
Now the exodus will begin, as each domain gets moved to another registrar.
Names4ever is now owned by aplus.net, but they get a D- for competence.
Over at knoledge.org there’s a video which shows all the original characters from the 1984-1986 television show The Transformers, and sings their names to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance. This was inspired by the Yakko’s World on Animaniacs.
I discovered Dr McNinja last September or so. Okay, so I was a little late getting in on it, but once I did, hoo boy.
This is a wonderful webcomic; funny, very cool, and it doesn’t rely on profanity or obscenity.
Absurdist humour at its best. Frozen shamrocks being used as ninja stars will allow me to laugh myself to sleep for years to come.
So I decided I must be Dr McNinja for Halloween. I already had a katana (and not a wall-hanger either, it’s an actual sword, not just a display piece), so I just got the lab coat, stethoscope, and needed a ninja mask.
Well, I couldn’t find any adult ninja masks! I finally got the largest child size I could find, cut it up some, did some fancy things with tape, and viola.
You can’t tell, but the clipboard has printouts of the first three issues, so I could show people. And the pen I got from someone who got it from a pharmaceutical rep; it’s advertising some drug or other.
It was quite an apropos costume, because at work and at home I’m always (unintentionally) scaring people; I guess I don’t make much noise when I enter a room and people are always looking up to see me standing 2 feet away and shrieking in terror. I just tell them I practice The Way of the Ninja and that actually mollifies them. Go figure.
