An Open Letter to Nominet and the UK Domain Industry

The last couple of months have seen the public airing of a number of polarised viewpoints regarding the current governance of Nominet, the perceived grasp at control by a subset of the membership, vague and fluffy commitments to the wider stakehholder community, and the future role of Nominet in the UK namespace.

RevolutionTwo – Revolution Themes Go Open Source

Revolution Two Themes For WordPress “Revolution Theme is dead, long live Revolution Two”

Brian Gardner, the brains behind the Revolution Themes – which the Anyname site is built on, has made the bold move to follow the WordPress ethos and make his Revolution Themes Open Source.

AffiliStore Enhanced 2.5 Released

ASE2.5 has finally been released. The official version can be found at Affiliate Stores and support at Affiliate Stores Forum

Spam – gangs and the 1 in 12million

A fascinating few facts on spam – Not the chopped pork variety; the bane of every web user, the unsolicited mail – normally for products to put pay to your male insecurities.

AffiliStore Enhanced – RC4 and release date

AffiliStore Enhanced has reached the final RC. I’m happy enough that the vast majority of issues have been resolved and that any further ones coming out of the active use of the product can be dealt with. AffiliStore Enhanced will start with version 2.5.

AffiliStore Enhanced – Wireframe Templates

In preparation for the release of AffiliStore Enhanced 2.5 I have been preparing a number of wireframe templates based on the latest version. These are all based on the twilight theme and defined as twilight (which is WF1) to twilight-wf10. Future css based themes & custom ‘themed’ templates will be based on these. I will also be providing a custom ASE theme service.

AffiliStore Enhanced RC3 – The Final Countdown Release

AffiliStore Enhanced RC3 has been completed. This is an internal release with a range of minor fixes and changes ready for the release of AffiliStore Enhanced 2.5. No fixed release date, but should be before Nov18. It’ll have to be then as I have other commitments on and after that date.

Domain Phishing Scam. Look after your domains.

The phishers & scammers have realised that domains are pretty valuable commodities these days, and as the word is out that banks don’t send emails asking for your personal information they have expanded their repetoire to domains and trying to get access to accounts to transfer them. Particular targets are .coms at registrars eNom & Network Solutions