Archive for May, 2008
The internet is the perfect vehicle for starting a new business, in the good times and in the bad, with costs anything from zero to the sky, market reach potentially enormous from day one and the chance to trade 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The ongoing economic downturn has seen more [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
First is Symantec reporting about a vulnerability in Adobes Flash that may be causing over 200,000 sites to be in danger, then a few days later Symantec is reporting that they may have made a mistake.
An old version of Flash (version 9.0.115.0) contained the bug causing problems for players with that version, but the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
On the 15th of May I wrote a post with some suggestions on how to improve the domain name wiki AboutUs.org and yesterday I noticed a ping-back from the AboutUs blog with a link to my post with suggestions. Guess what: They've actually followed one of my suggestions and created a plugin for your browser [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names
I finally got an answer from Compete.com regarding the red trust icon for XavierMedia.com. Andy at Compete.com is explaining the red icon with some technical problems:
Your site’s Compete trust score has been changed back to the green, trusted mark. Recently there was a disconnect between some of the servers used in the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
The Daily Tech is reporting about a vulnerability in Linux that's originating back from 2006 which is making any Linux machine an easier target for hackers.
It's basically two lines of code causing the "secure keys" to be selected between a much more narrow range then the full range it's meant to be. So instead of [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
I just checked the Alexa ratings for XavierMedia.com and noticed that we get 18.8% of our visitors from Nigeria (???). We're ranked as 1199 in Nigeria which means that only 1198 sites are more popular then XavierMedia.com in Nigeria . Now to the big question how many Internet users are there in Nigeria?
BTW [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Statistics
We've uploaded three new banners to help you promote our deal where you can register a .com domain name for only $6.95.
If you're not already an affiliate you can register at ShareASale.com for free and you will get commission on all sales from our web sites eXavier.com and XavierMedia.biz. Click here to join today you [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Affiliate Programs, Domain names
I've been using Compete.com a lot since I like their graphs and I find them useful when I'm doing estimates of the traffic to a web site. Ok, I know there are a lot of sceptic people out there not trusting their data, but since I don't see 7000 visitors to a site according to [...] Continue Reading
Posted in The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
AboutUs.org is a wiki built with the same software as Wikipedia, but instead of being an Encyclopedia of everything it's focusing on domain names. If you would like to know more about a company behind a domain name AboutUs.org is the place where you should have a look since almost every domain name registered got [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Domain names
In the beginning of this year antivirus and security company McAfee acquired Scanalert, a company that certify if a site is safe from hacking or not. Now one of the anti-fraud researchers at Scanalert is himself suspected for fraud
The researcher is facing fraud charges in Indiana, not only once but 11 times for [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
The hottest search trend on the Internet today seems to be "How Americans Can Buy American" and the reason for this "hype" in searching seems to be two resent articles and one blog post written on this subject:
How Americans Can Buy American, While Green
HULIQ (press release) – May 20, 2008
The question is how Americans Can [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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