Posts Tagged ‘Texas’

It’s Time for a National Discussion on Sales Tax

Amazon cans its California affiliates. California loses, affiliates lose. It’s time for a bigger discussion. Yesterday a couple California readers forwarded a message from Amazon.com saying that, should their governor sign in to law a new so-called “affiliate tax”, their participation in the Amazon Associated program would be terminated. Hours later they received a message [...]

Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories of October 2010

A look back at October in domaining. Halloween is behind us, the clocks are about to “fall” back an hour in much of the U.S., and cool weather is upon us (well, not so much in Texas). Here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire in October based on total views. Conroy Disses [...]

RSVP Now for Austin Domainer Weekend

RSVP today for next month’s domainer weekend in Austin, Texas. It’s time to make your plans to join us in Austin for the Austin Domainer Weekend, November 12-13. You can view the invite and RSVP here. Here’s a rough schedule of events: Friday, November 12 8 pm to 10 pm – Dinner at Iron Cactus [...]

Join us in Austin November 12-13

Domainer weekend quickly approaching You did save the date, right? The Austin Domainers’ Weekend will take place November 12 and 13th right here in the Live Music Capital of the World. We’re still finalizing event locations (thanks to Lisa Box of Oversee.net for her help!) but here’s what you have to look forward to: Friday, [...]

Austin Man Sues Entrepreneur Media, Claims Reverse Domain Hijacking

Entrepreneur Magazine came after small business owner over trademarks. An Austin businessman has sued Entrepreneur Media, publisher of Entrepreneur Magazine, after the publication sent a cease and desist to him for registering EntrepreneurOlogy.com. Daniel Castro is an author, speaker, trainer, and small business owner in Austin, Texas. In January 2009 he says he coined the [...]

Are you Going to Epik Developers Conference?

Conference starts Wednesday evening in Seattle. Tomorrow I’m headed to Seattle for Epik’s first ever user conference called “Epik Developers Conference“. As a user conference and a first go-round, I expect attendance to be modest but the attendees to be enthusiastic and involved. The conference also includes a number of firsts: -First conference you can [...]

Save the Date: Austin Domainer Weekend November 12-13

Are you cool? Then plan to visit Austin this November. I’ve long talked about holding a domainer dinner in Austin. As I talked to others in the industry about it one common request kept coming up: hold it in conjunction with a University of Texas football game. So that’s what we’re doing November 12-13. Details [...]