by jothan | Sep 15, 2007 | Jothan
OK, I ordered one, and my ROM machine is here. I am going to start working out daily and track my weight and shape here.
Thanks to friends with comments.
I will say this:
The process of ordering the ROM and their handling of shipping was one of the most white glove processes I have ever experienced. Kudos to the company on this. Many companies could learn from them.
The machine is beautiful and every attention to detail was made in its crafting, down to the mat that is included and the locking device that has its combo identical to the last 4 of the serial number.
4 Minutes pass like the breeze, but I am sore beyond belief after. It either is working or I am really out of shape. Or both.
by jothan | Aug 11, 2007 | Jothan, Meetings
What do people think of the fastexercise.com “ROM” workout machine?Â
 Please comment!
OK, I came to a relization that I am a growing boy, and unfortunately that stopped being vertical growth after age 19. Realizing that I can have more energy, and be more healthy in general if I do more exercise than I currently am doing, I decided to step up and do something. First step of course is to break away from a pattern of  oreo binges.
 I travel a lot (hence the name of my blog), and I notice there is an ad in the in flight magazines for the ROM 4 minute workout machine. 4 minutes a day of intensive workout. No More. No Less. I can afford 4 minutes’ time.
With tax and shipping and what not, a unit comes in at just about 16k in costs, but I mentally justified the amount because I figure (hope) that perhaps the benefits are far greater than that amount.
Should I make this purchase?Â
I will open up comments on this one to the general public to see what comes back before I move on this, because of the amount to be spent here.
by jothan | Jul 31, 2007 | ICANN
Just in from around the net, Afilias and GoDaddy have arranged a joint venture called Alliance Registry and have announced their plans to bid for the .US ccTLD that is currently run by NeuStar.
Well recognized and respected industry name Brian Cute was named as the director of usTLD Development, yet another high powered hire in the domain industry to lead the process.
I have no opinion on this process, but this was interesting news today!
by jothan | Jul 28, 2007 | Speaking
I just had the opportunity to speak and moderate a panel at HostingCon in Chicago on the domain name industry and the secondary market for domain names.
There was a packed room, and with me were Sean Stafford of DNZoom, Frank Mitchlick of DomainNameNews.com and sharedreviews.com, and Tim Schumacher of Sedo, plus lots of very intelligent CEOs and senior management approached me throughout the show with a series of relly intelligent questions about the domain name industry.
I came away from the event with a few takeaways. One is that my friend Isabel Wang totally gets it, two is that most hosting companies are clueing into the thundering sound of lost revenue rolling off the edge of the earth when their domain names expire, and third was that we’re experiencing immense growth in our industry to see a conference of this size be so well orchestrated and focused on business development so well.
Props to Frank, George, and Sue at Inter Juncture, and much success to you!
by jothan | Jun 21, 2007 | ICANN, NewTLDs, Policy
I commented on a public document.  Let me be more specific…
Recently, there has been some talk over what a registry failover would need to look like, in the event that a new registry provider would need to be designated.
As new Top Level Domains (TLD) are introduced, many of them include failover testing or have described their disaster recovery plans, but these typically are focused upon natural disasters or acts of god, etc.
It is vital infrastructure, to be sure. As vital as the number of registrants or users that utilize the TLD, at least.
I spent some time reviewing the current registry failover plan, and noticed that it was very well written and prepared. I commend ICANN staff for their very thorough and hard work.
The place where I commented about perhaps adding some specificity is in trying to ensure that registrars can quickly unplug and re-plug their connections (and I am super-oversimplifying the actual process) to minimize registrant impacts for domains under management.
I’d also note that the likely driver of this document was not natural disaster or act of god, but rather the potential financial failure of the publicly-traded parent company to the registry.
While the circumstances that were likely driving the urgency of this planning have been relieved in the near term, this is an important proactive measure to ensure that effects to the namespace and users are minimized to the fullest extent, and then all of that security and stability is present in transition.
by jothan | Jun 20, 2007 | Domain Aftermarket, Domain Shows
The Domain Marketplace converged on New York this week for the Sedo User conference and T.R.A.F.F.I.C., with other events like the DomainJamNYC happening in the midst of it all.
Lots to report, though I am not there. Oversee.net completed the acquisition of Snapnames (which is like peanut butter and chocolate getting together), and Sedo announced their acquisition of GreatDomains from VeriSign.
Fabulous is gaining ground with their DDN, announcing that large regsitrar Tucows is coming aboard there. Tucows also completed a $3M(USD) premium portfolio sale, and announced their secondary market platform.
Moniker will be performing the worlds largest domain auction this week at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference.
DomainsBot is demonstrating new technology that categorizes or identifies the language of domains when submitted a list of names.
Pool.com has launched myrebel.com as a platform allowing consolidation and management of domains into a single registrar, but leasing one of the creds that are owned by momentous/pool.
DNZoom.com, a consolidated domain management platform, was announced by Modern Gigabyte, and looks promising as a central platform.
by jothan | May 29, 2007 | Etc
I just have to talk up Web Conferencing provider WebEx and their service. I have been in many web conferences that this platform has supported, and it worked each time without a hitch.
Adobe now is offering a variety of web conferencing solutions as well along with Acrobat, it seems. Consumer choice is good. I will post once I compare all of these.
