The Real Ryan J. Parker

The video at http://thewebsiteisdown.com/ is hilarious on many levels for me.

First, the nonchalant attitude the guy gives with respect to the people calling him is classic. The “I didn’t read the e-mail you sent me so I deleted it from your sentbox to make you think you didn’t send it to me” is another goodie.

Top it off with the fact that he keeps going back to pwn n00bs on Halo and it is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in some time. It really hits home with me. I give it 5 stars!

Now that FeedBurner is owned by Google, you would think they’d have time to fix their math.

For example: I have 14 people subscribed to a feed using SendMeRSS, yet FeedBurner only counts 4. I know it’s 14 because SendMeRSS lists the number of subscribers in every e-mail that is sent out. Yes, I’m one of the 14 because I want to know if it’s ever broken.

Also, Google’s feed fetcher only reports 7 subscribers, yet FeedBurner counts this as 14. I know it’s 7 because the Googlebot comes to my site first before being re-directed to FeedBurner.

I figure this is just a parsing issue, but conspiracy theorists could suggest that Google wants to make it look like everyone is using their service.

Regardless, I just want to have an accurate subscriber count. Is that too much to ask for?

Apparently ICANN recently agreed to reduce the registrar transaction fee from $0.25 to $0.22, retroactive to July 1st, 2006.

As such, your registrar owes you $0.03 per domain year you registered from July 1st, 2006 until now.

For me, this meant a refund of $0.57 for 19 domain years registered since July 1st, 2006.

Now if only my registrar, GoDaddy, provided a high yield savings account, that $0.57 might turn into $1.00 someday.

I guess I’ll just have to put it towards a future renewal.

How much ICANN fee money did your registrar refund to you?

Tags: icann, registrar, fee, refund