[photo] Mark Jeftovic

easyDNS CEO, Career Contrarian & AntiGuru

Austerity is for Suckers as Verisign Locks Up .COM

“2. ICANN OBLIGATIONS.
2.3.2 not unreasonably restrain competition and, to the extent feasible, promote and encourage robust competition;”
                              – ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement”

While the rest of the world faces austerity measures, governments and people are being told to tighten their belts and make do with less. The tech sector’s lot in life is usually in line with this, facing increased competition and falling pricing power. Not so for Verisign, who will soon have it’s contract to manage the .COM registry rubber-stamped by ICANN, locking in an annual 7% price hike into the base cost of .com

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Written by Mark Jeftovic on April 25, 2012 — Leave a Comment
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How To Use Facebook Marketing To Destroy Your Credibility

All day long I’ve been getting invites via Facebook from some technology firm I’ve never heard of, inviting me to join facebook so that I can connect with them. Everybody gets these types of lame attempts at “social media marketing” from desperate clueless companies (not to mention that half the time these solicitations are just spoofs, infected with something or attempts to phish your login details). In this case, the invite really was sent via Facebook’s invitation engine, and all day long they kept coming….

Written by Mark Jeftovic on March 27, 2012 — 1 Comment
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How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet

As you read this, please keep in mind that I say it all with a track record of nearly 14 years of being proactive and having a zero-tolerance policy towards criminal activity and network abuse on our system. We have great relationships with Law Enforcement Agencies both here in Canada and abroad. We are always helpful and (usually) happy to answer questions, and help LEA understand the complexities and nuances of the internet. We've had the good fortune to meet some really intelligent and clued in cybercrime units. We participate in numerous communities in combating .net abuse and cybercrime.

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Written by Mark Jeftovic on December 22, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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Investing Local: The Game-Changer for a Dismal Economy

A little less than a year ago while I was driving up north for my annual dose of solitude in a cabin outside of Algonquin Park, I had somewhat of an epiphany. It came after the realization that the miserable urban sprawl that was decimating ever more land around Toronto for sterile subdivisions of cubical houses and big box stores was reaching ever outward from the GTA (green belt, hah!). I was listening to Damon Vickers “The Day After the Dollar Crashes”, which was less about what happens after the dollar finally crashes, and more of a call-to-arms… Read the rest

Written by Mark Jeftovic on November 25, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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Special Privilege (part 1)

Yesterday I received my copy of Vincent R. Locascio’s “Special Priviledge: How the Monetary Elite Benefit…At Your Expense“. It was published in 2001 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME) and I hope they don’t …

Written by Mark Jeftovic on November 19, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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