I split the flurry of emails between domain name registrar ItsYourDomain and me into two posts.
Ted Cucci, Executive VP Operations for ItsYourDomain.com replied to my request to honor his own statements, obviously with no intention to do so:
Richard, your request needed to come before the name was deleted. It is offered as a courtesy when [...]
Once ItsYourDomain received my letter than I sent to ICANN, a flurry of emails went back and forth, unfortunately solving nothing.
I’ve renamed the month of December to “Screw-You Month” because of all the people and companies that have tried to screw me over the past few weeks. This time a domain name registrar has hijacked my domain.
December seemed to be the month of Screw You. I had a client that I had performed some work for last October that decided in his own way that he wasn’t going to pay the entire amount due for my services already rendered:
I just went over the invoice. I have to admit, your fee is [...]
I recently received an email from an ex-client, a candidate for State Assembly, excerpted below, in response to my demand for “payment after working [for her for] two months without compensation” and that she “obviously have had no intention of paying me at all.”
I am sorry you feel that way. You can be angry, or [...]
In the final two weeks of 2003 I received 6,910 emails, 18 of which were legitimate emails from people or businesses that I would have expected.
The remaining 6,892 emails were all spam. That’s 492 per day, one spam email received every two minutes and fifty-six seconds.
I still take unsolicited emails very seriously and follow the [...]
It is New Year’s Day.
The start of a new year, a chance for a new beginning, a defining moment after which exists the promise of prosperity and happiness.
Picture yourself in my California ranch-style home. It is late morning, overcast and rainy. The Rose Parade drones on in the background, not quite drowning out the drip-drip [...]
