[photo] Mark Jeftovic

easyDNS CEO, Career Contrarian & AntiGuru

When the World goes to Hell, I go to Panama

Today was the 6th worst stock market crash in history. It reminded me of the last time I was in Panama during what turned out to be the nadir of the Global Financial Crisis. My long time mentor and friend Sieg Pedde, a lifelong real estate investor who taught me a lot about investing in general had been working on a property development in Panama and I had decided to become a partner in it.

At the time the entire world was going berserk: stock markets had been tanking for a year, the global economy was threatening to… Read the rest

Written by Mark Jeftovic on August 9, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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How to tell if a new TLD will succeed (and most won’t).

I just read Rick Spence’s “What’s in a name? It could be a fortune on the Internet“, (HT to HybridDomainer), which seemingly dials the needle back to (pick one), 2005 or 2007, or maybe 2010 and drinks the Kool-Aid every domainer has on an IV drip: the notion that fortune and success can be achieved

simply by virtue of “owning the right names” (i.e How can we be bankrupt? Don’t we own TenMillionDollars.com?)

Only in this case, he’s talking about the seemingly impending new top-level-domains. “New domain names will rank above the current crop”,

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Written by Mark Jeftovic on June 16, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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Wealth.net Exclusive: Interview with John Mauldin

My inaugural post on Wealth.net was a brief notice that John Mauldin’s forthcoming book “Eavesdropping on Millionaires: Secrets of the World’s Wealthiest Investors” had been postponed. As an afterthought I asked him via email for details and he responded personally …

Written by Mark Jeftovic on May 18, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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Everything I needed to know I learned in MIA

The Canadian music industry is taking a somber pause today with the news that legendary record producer Jack Richardson has passed away at age 81. I fluked into the knowledge this morning while getting my daughter ready for school and turning on the TV to see the weather report, saw it as a crawl across the screen on CP24. I exclaimed out loud and after Em went downstairs to get ready I suddenly slumped onto the bed and felt the tears well up.

Written by Mark Jeftovic on May 16, 2011 — 3 Comments
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DNS Speeds Debunked

A popular “metric” in the space are benchmarks depicting speeds of DNS lookups. Sales guys love to tell you “your existing DNS is slow” and that theirs is fast. Read more »

Written by Mark Jeftovic on May 3, 2011 — Leave a Comment
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