I transferred a bunch of domains to Namecheap . com last year in part because there was no extra charge to protect my contact info through WhoisGuard.
Now that some of the domains are coming up for renewal, NameCheap wants to charge me for renewing the privacy as well. Sneaks!
To quote from their list of “features“:
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I am currently in the process of transferring all my domain names from GoDaddy to Namecheap.
Why?
GoDaddy’s price has gone up
Namecheap is cheaper, and has private registration for no extra charge. GoDaddy charges for each private domain name registration, unless you register a certain number of domain names all at once. But when it comes around [...]
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Okay, it’s really annoying me that wordpress.com has implemented this “snap” preview window thing that pops up whenever you hover over a link. Oy!
In a search engine, this “snap” thing is wonderful — you get a little preview of the site without the time and frustration of clicking and going back, etc.
But it really annoys [...]
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Ironically, today I discovered the PHP manual I wish I’d found back when I first tried learning about cURL: the Practical PHP Programming wiki written mosly by Paul Hudson. Nice, easy-to-understand cURL and PHP explanations. And wouldn’t you know it, Paul Hudson wrote the O’Reilly book PHP in a Nutshell. Where was this search result [...]
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