Welcome to the Colbert Platinum section of AU Blog. Today we’re gonna talk about flossing your riches with the hottest new status symbol - crazy expensive ccTLD’s. (And maybe, just maybe - before we’re done here.. we’ll all be wearing gold-plated diapers.)

Here’s a little known fact: Ethiopian Domain Names are the Crystal of ccTLD’s.

Yes, we’re talking about the .com.et ccTLD.

It belongs to Ethiopia - and apparently it’s the Crystal of Domain name extensions.

» Continue reading “Bling out your Domain. Go Ethiopian.”

This is a pared down list of county code TLD’s that allow foreign registrations.

This is in contrast to country specific TLD’s that place restrictions on who can register them such as citizenship in that country (ex: .eu - must have official presence in the European Union to register)

(via Wikipedia) » Continue reading “A List of County Code TLD’s that Anyone Can Register”

I just downloaded the preview version of Wordpress 2.5 and have been playing around with it this afternoon. It’s a major upgrade and I’m really pleased to see all the new features.

» Continue reading “Wordpress 2.5 Preview: Sweet!”

This post has been in my drafts for a while but I figured this would be a good time to post it, thanks to Arrington’s recent post.

In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of companies and blogs seem to be linking less and less to external websites in favor of directing traffic to their own sites, networks, or affiliated sites. » Continue reading “Link Hoarding: How Google And Money have Changed the Linking Game”

For the last few months I was having a peculiar problem with Firefox: When I tried to delete a post, page, or comment by pressing the delete link in the Wordpress admin panel, nothing would happen. I would have to switch to Internet Explorer anytime I wanted to delete posts.

» Continue reading “Can’t Delete Wordpress Posts or Comments? iMacros may be to Blame”