Three Thousand Years of Marketing in Three Paragraphs Marketing is not new. There is evidence to suggest that at least as early as the Phoenician traders – over 3000 years ago - there was activity that we might class as marketing – Phoenician … [Continue reading]
Apple Continues to Register Mystery Domain Names
A few days ago, I uncovered the fact that Apple owns a bunch of mysterious domain names, most of which are resolving to a default Linux setup page on Amazon's cloud. But today, after I reported that one of these mysterious domain names, … [Continue reading]
Linked from These Directories? Be Prepared To Pay for Removal
There's a search engine optimization company out there that is requiring that you pay for removal if you want your link removed from their directory. This same SEO company built these web directories several years ago, touting the fact that they … [Continue reading]
Get Your Site on Google’s Front Page Search
Have you received an email (usually an unsolicited email) from someone offering to get your site on Google's front page? Well, I get these all the time, from companies that claim that they can help a website's search engine rankings. The problem, … [Continue reading]
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is Now Called Globe Life Park in Arlington
The Texas Rangers baseball team has reached a naming-rights deal for the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington will now be called Globe Life Park in Arlington. Globe Life is based in McKinney Texas. Back in 2004, the … [Continue reading]
Apple Owns Mystery Domains, Hosted on Amazon Cloud Server
While doing some digging around today, I noticed that Apple, Inc. owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple's own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon's cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as … [Continue reading]