I find this very funny. A Austrailian bank has issued a credit card to a cat after the cat’s owner tested the banks security system. The bank has after the fact that the card was issued to a cat was known, the bank has canceled the card…
Last week i was in Malaysia when the internet connection cable from Malaysia to Thaiwan broke. I tried to surf on the few redundant lines they had in place, but it was virtualy impossible to connect to hotmail or any other big sites.
Since this is still not repaired, there is a risk of several hundred of domain names will expire due to that the domain owner can not connect to there registrar website and renew there site…
Air Asia is a new low cost airline that is asias anwser to EasyJet. This is a fairly new company. We went with Air Asia from kuala lumpur to Landkawi, the flight in question became 6 hours late. During the check in the women said “Why did you not choose a earlyer flight, Air Asia Evening flights are always delayed.”.
Air Asia in KL are flying from the new LCC terminal, that has a very limited amount of shopping. From KL you can easy get to this airport from KL Sentral by air asia bus or other operators. The ticket is arround 9 RM (equal to 2 Euros or Dollars). There are also shuttel service from KL main terminal to KL LCC terminal, this transfere is 2.5 RM, that is arround half a Euro or Dollars.
On the return flight Air Asia was just 20 min late. A big difference from European airlines is that to be served on Air Asia you need to call a air tennant, normaly they planes i go in goes around with a van and visit all seats.
I find this amazing if it is true. Google forgot to renew there .de domain name, and this was followed by several hours when google was down. The articel also say that another company registerd the name with google ad’s, however i find this hard to belive when the normaly is a month release time on the domain name.
Google is using the company MarkMonitor for managment of the domain name .com, not sure if this company is also used for .de
The google system with pagerank builds on several factors, one of the factors is the amount of inbound links to your site. this would meen that a site that has existed for a long time with quality content would be the highest ranked sites. I agree, nothing is wrong with this. What i was thinking about was olympics, or other big events, that are popular for a short time, olympics might not be a good exampel, but if we take another exampel of a smaller event, that should be popular for a month or so and then disapear from the search engine, these sittes does not have the time to gain a page rank, and when they are propperly linked, the event will probably be over.. My exampels is in mountaineering. When a mountaineering expedition comes to life it is usualy not very known, when they are up the mountain media writes about the event a lot, and the site get more links. This would meen that this site would be popular first after the expedition, and not during the expedition when the site is as most intressting… Maybe my exampel is just an exeption kind, but it would be nice if googles PR generator would feel what is hip at the moment…
I recive hundreds of spam messages every day, for once i read the message and it was a investor alert message, what suprise me with this message is that there was no contact information of where i could actualy buy the share. I went to the domain from where the message was sent, and for sure, this domain (children summer camps) was not the sender of the message. If the message would have contained “Call this number” or something, then i can see the point of sending this message, but without contact information, what’s the point, it cost money to send spam, and there is no way they can get any money back with this message. The only thing they can get back is a angry ISP that complains that you have blacklisted there server, or using to much bandwith.
This guy has named himself after all bond movies, his official name is
‘James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond’.
The guy is 23 and originaly called David Fearn.
I am not sure i have made the right chooise. I recently added a ODP Clone. I opend my clone in the belife that ODP is a open and free directory. However it has now come to my attention that a lot of the editors on ODP/DMOZ are only listing in case they get payed. This is against the TOS for ODP/DMOZ, and it is hard to track the bad editors down.
The advantage with a DMOZ listing is that a lot is duplicating the content of DMOZ, for exampel, google is running a duplica of this content. as described above, even i am running a duplicate of the content of DMOZ. This gives a submited site to DMOZ a lot of packlinks, from a lot of pages, that give the page in question a high page rank.
if everyone would have a equal chance of getting listed, i would agree to this (fair to everyone) but it is not ODP (open) to everyone any more, it is just open to the one how can find the right editor..
For this reason i have removed all links from my ODP page, and only provide a duplicate content page, and not giving any page rank back.
I have recently opened my own new directory, it can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20070323183848/http://www.tne-directory.com/. After working 24 hours a day now reviewing sites, I thought it would be a good idea to write some guidelines for what content I will and will not approve on my new directory.
I wish that the blog has a few month proven activity, and that it does not look like it was made to make money, but that the blog owner does actually have a interest in the topic of question. Don’t submit a new blog, wait half a year, and then submit the blog. Don’t have affiliate links on your blog main text, you can have it on the site where it does not disturb the content.
Directory owners
When reviewing directory’s i am looking how easy it is to find information in your directory. For example, for me, a directory should be a source where you can find information about a topic. If your directory is empty, wait until you have a few links under most categories. Then your directory has some useful value. I do not like the word cloud type of directory.
Affiliate programs
I will not approve sites that the only purpose is to gain money from affiliate activity. If the site naturally can include some affiliate programs I don’t mind, such as if you have a site about dogs, i would not mind if you have a page with your favorite books about dog’s. However, if you copy every dog book on Amazon to your site, i would not approve this site. The purpose of the site needs to be something else then gain money on affiliate.
Google, YPN ad’s
I will approve pages that are using ad’s. However, it should not be the only thing you see when you get on your page, the content of the page should be the visible thing, not the ad’s. Don’t put the maximum amount of ad’s on the top of the page and you will be fine.
Adult content
I will not link to any adult content sites.
Pills/Viagra/Brest enhancements etc
As you know if you are running a site like this, there are a lot of bad products out there. I am not a doctor of medicine myself, and can therefore not say what works and what does not work. If i find a single page trying to sell something i will not approve. If however it is a bigger site promoting themselves as a company as well as a product i may approve it if i find that the company in question are a serious company.
Banking/Loan sites
If you are serious about giving loan, have a serious site. Do not mix colors and text size to much. Look at a big bank like UBS how they design there site. You also need to have contact information and not only a form that say fill in this form and we will contact you.
Other general guidelines
Make sure your site has contact information in case you are selling a product or a service so that your clients can find a way of contacting you without using a form for you to call them back. I don’t think it is a serious way of doing business. If your site is not selling, this is not an issue.
The design should be easy to navigate as well as no pop up windows on your site. If most of the images on your site should work. The site needs to be up when i review the site. Links on the page should work and not link to empty/low level content.
Deep links and sub domains
I will not approve deep linking pages. I will add sub domains as long as they are not directly related to the main site, for example blogger.com sub domains is a good example of a site i can approve if appropriate content.
Only one link per domain is allowed with exception for domains how for natural reasons only can have sub domains such as blogger.com. Only include one link for your company’s main website, don’t submit one for every language. (I have examples of domain.com/en and domain.xx being submitted, and the content is the same) If your competitor only have one domain, this would not be fair on them that you would have 2 listings and them only one.
Please also consider the following
We are at the moment receiving around 100 new link requests per day, and i have only time to review 50, so the time it take for me to review your listing may be a while. My directory is however free of charge, and i wish to only include quality sites, I therefore hope for your understanding of the long listing time. All links is yearly reviewed for maintaining a quality index, you will receive a mail asking if you wish to keep your listing before your listing expire. A lot of sites are on the limit if they should be included or not. You may think why this site and not mine get included, try to read the review on my forum or post me a letter, the result may be a inclusion of both sites after discussion with you or exclude both sites. It is hard work, and I am doing my best to be fair on everyone and only include quality content, but sometime it is hard to determine what quality content is when I have no knowledge of the sector. I am however willing to discuss why certain sites did not get listed if you contact me.
I have my domain name thomasnederman.com registered with no-ip. When i was going to renew this name i find that the check out did not work. I tried with 2 different credit cards on 2 different computers, no change. When i on the last day before expiration tried to renew the name on a third computer, it magically worked. Very strange. If you ever have the same problem, ask your friends if you can use there computers to renew your name.
All computers i used had internet explorer, one with the version 7 and 2 with version 6. All computers where using google toolbar.
Just thought i let you know !