Category: BigSmoke.US

BigSmoke.US is no longer mine

Since my three previous posts [1, 2, 3], I've made over 7 phone calls to the US, alternating between Wild West Domains and NeuStar. And it turned out that, no, I'm not allowed to have a dot-US domain. So I gave it away. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on August 10, 2007, at 16:08 | No comments

Can NeuStar be trusted to keep networks together?

Trusted to bring networks together, beams NeuStar's corporate slogan. After my previous two posts, I'm still hoping that they can be trusted to keep networks together too. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on July 24, 2007, at 00:07 | No comments

Changed the Nexus agreement for BigSmoke.US

My usage of the BigSmoke.US domain didn't get approved yet. I was hoping for a little advice to come my way by submitting an Ask Slashdot this morning, but the story didn't get past the firehose. After realizing that I should have submitted the story to my /. journal as that would allow Slashdotters to comment without the story having to make it, I just added a journal entry. I want all the exposure and feedback that I can get. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on July 21, 2007, at 23:07 | 3 comments

Crackdown on my .US infiltration attempt

Wether it has something to do with the current Terror Alert level or with a renewed surge of isolationism I don't know, but my foreign ass no longer seems to be welcome below the Dot-US TLD. Never mind that almost all of my visitors are American. Or that my dot-US websites are hosted at US-based NearlyFreeSpeech. Or are my ties to the states sufficient that I just need to deliver the proof? Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on July 20, 2007, at 16:07 | 2 comments

Allowing dots in WordPress post slugs

I was once again annoyed by the fact that WordPress doesn't allow dots in post slugs. Luckily, this time I hadn't published the post with a botched URL yet. (I don't like changing permalinks because they're meant to be permanent; cool URLs don't change.) A quick googling pointed me to a post in the WordPress support forum with a reference to the Periods in Titles WordPress plugin. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on May 30, 2007, at 00:05 | 1 comment

First post!

A blog, or weblog, is a website which is regularly updated with new entries. These entries usually appear in reverse chronological order. If they appear at all. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on January 28, 2007, at 17:01 | 2 comments