One of the blogs I love to read is Tim O’Reilly because he covers a lot of technical moving and shaking which is going on. In one of his posts this month Tim talked about Bill O’Reilly and how people confuse Tim with Bill. Both guys have rather large public profiles however Tim runs a technical publishing empire and Bill hosts a TV show on Fox. Tim went on to describe how visitors direct navigate to Tim’s Oreilly.com site and see all the technical material yet they still think that the site has something to do with Bill.

Three Florida Registrars were named in a lawsuit by Dell on November 16th; all this is just coming to the surface now. Those three registrars are BelgiumDomains, CapitolDomains, and DomainDoorman. They also have a few sister companies such as Netrian Ventures and IHoldings.com that were named too. Dell personally named Juan Pablo “JP” Vazquez because he was on the incorporation paperwork for most of these companies. Dell has a feeling there are 10 other John Does as well that could be related and is seeking the true identity of those companies as well as naming them in the suit. John Berryhill sent me over a copy of the lawsuit today and I have been reading through it. You can read the main document and the supporting doc 1, and supporting doc 2.

Want to place an ad inside your own whois record? Network Solutions has decided to offer this service to all their customers. Instead of just displaying contact information and your address you can now place whatever text you want inside the record. This, “Enhanced Business Listing” allows owners to place more descriptive text inside their whois record. When anyone looked up the whois record they would see your opening sales pitch before they even approach you about buying your domain. Sounds like a great idea to me. The listing costs $12 a year, which seems a bit expensive to me but I am sure people will buy it. Buy why would you buy this service if you also bought Whois Privacy? Read Network Solutions full press release about the service. If you are trying to protect your information then this is not the service for you. Whois Privacy and this service are completely opposite each other. For more information on the Enhanced Business Listing service check out their page on it.

While on Vacation I took a “Be like Frank” photo. If only it was that easy to be like Frank.