Yep, I know my blog hasn't been updated. Even though I actually have some full posts sitting around some place, that is if I haven't lost them by now.

The main reason is that I'm actually moving the blog to my own server, and the move is almost done, but just I got busy with other items before concluding it... things like


So remain patient, hopefully the move will be completed soon.

I used to use Google Alerts extensively in order to help me stay on top of certain companies and topics - amongst other reason to help me fuel my blogs. Well, I am not sure what is happening, but the alerts keep on disappearing. I have changed the email address (and Google) account I use to point to my Gmail account, to make sure that there are no bounces, but still keep on disappearing. I had re-added about 20 alerts and after 2 days I was down to 5 - 3 days later all of them were gone.

Since there's barely any chance that my support email to Google will be answered, I was wondering if anyone else has experienced anything similar. I wasn't able to find anything. Am I the only one encountering this problem?

Shame on me, I forgot to let my readers here know that I started a new blog together with Adam Strong: Domain Name News. DomainEditorial will be integrated into that blog. So if you are only finding about this now, go and read, you have lots to catch up with ;-)

Germany, my country of birth. You have come a long way during my life-time. Berlin has finally developed to be the international metropolis I was longing for. So nice to see. But what the heck is happening the last years.

With horror I see the country is making everybody a suspect by default. Now their even discussing a database of fingerprints for all foreigners (German). Everyone is a threat, everyone is a suspect. I know that some within the country are very aware of those changes and are trying to work against what is happening. Unfortunately with little success.

I would be happy to say that it is only one paranoid Minister of the Interior, who's gone through attacks himself. Unfortunately this is not the case. During the G8-meeting in Germany, basic human rights disappeared with hesitant, but nevertheless with approval of the highest German court. The German military (by law only permitted to act in order to defend the country) has been used to spy on the people demonstrating against the G8 even with military planes.

While my friends' site TradeBit has been around for a while, I just realized that I never wrote about his site before. It allows you to upload your own files and sell them as downloads. So if you are looking to sell downloads, take a look at his site. You can even set up your own affiliate program.

If you've been wondering what I've been up to, check out what we (Peter, the rest of the team, and I) have created, as the first part of our new site launched today: SharedReviews.com, a product review website that shares the revenue with the community. Also Peter posted a nice introduction to the site.

For those of you asking me about my DomainEditorial.com Blog - yes, it's down, I am aware of it and trying to get it back up as quickly as possible. On top of a move of the physical location of the server on Wednesday we are now facing some hardware issues on that server. Hopefully it will be back online today.

[Update]: It's back up - but it's running off one hard drive instead of two.

This seems to unfortunately still to be largely a sign of our times - whenver you have an ill, pop a pill. Just to make sure you can still function and work for society. You might get everyone else in your office sick as well, but hey ;-)

Check out Licensed To Pill, a flash animation about this topic, surprisingly this is one flash animation I like.

Leaving the herd - my time has come. Life is full of change. Last year was full of change with the birth of my son - so why stop there? The era of change continues this year, with a big and important step for me.

I will be leaving Tucows as of March 1st, 2007. Leaving the herd was a difficult decision, especially after a full 5 years and 8 months of work with many wonderful people. I was the first Sales Engineer to be hired by Tucows and it was an amazing opportunity to help share and validate this position.

Thank you, Tucows, colleagues, ex-colleagues, suppliers, partners and resellers for the amazing time I've had. I am hoping to stay in touch with as many of you as possible.

But for me it is time to move on, time to move out of the barn.

Unfortunately at this point in time, I am not at liberty to reveal a whole lot of what I will be doing. I can however say, that I am looking forward to working a lot more with Peter, since he happens to be the founder of the startup that I am co-founder of.

Stay tuned for more...

PS: Happy Valentine's day!

Yes yes, I know. I never got beyond the first part of my DomainFest Global diary... Well, it appears that there was just too much going on there for me to keep track, but let's just say that I had a great and successful time. More later...