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2017: FilteredHq.com
2016: Sold 7-min.com
2013: Currently http://7-min.com
2012: (All these projects are dead) I was working on something cool: http://docley.com.
I am now working on something cooler: http://tabtrick.com/
I pivoted TabTrick to focus on Facebook Pages for Realtors...
2011: I have always been very interested in the startup scene. I have been to startup school twice and applied to YC once with Docley (I didn't get in).
I agree that product matters and not technology and I will remember this.
The site is http://tabtrick.com if anyone was interested.
Let's call this a quiet launch (soft launch)
Thanks for offering your help. I am sure good things will come to you!
For example: Q: Why are you going to do in city X? A: Party
Q: Party? A: and see some sites.
Vague questions get vague answers.
Implementing this should not be to hard and it allows them to get some feedback.
There is definitely some value with getting a page up. I think there is even a webapp that will do it for you. I forgot the name though.
Blows my mind how 4 out of 50 (8%) did not even complete the stated requirements.
Also crazy how all many of these people are Indian.
Also you don't need a sysadmin to install and manage a shared drive.
This was the entire email:
Hey David,
When I do a dig on the URL in question, it comes back with the following information:
dig qdb.taranen.co.uk
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> qdb.taranen.co.uk
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21877
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qdb.taranen.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
qdb.taranen.co.uk. 257 IN A 174.143.153.245
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
taranen.co.uk. 172800 IN NS ns.123-reg.co.uk.
taranen.co.uk. 172800 IN NS ns2.123-reg.co.uk.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.123-reg.co.uk. 2320 IN A 212.67.202.2
ns2.123-reg.co.uk. 2320 IN A 92.51.159.40
;; Query time: 218 msec
;; SERVER: 10.6.24.4#53(10.6.24.4)
;; WHEN: Wed Nov 18 13:10:06 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 126
174.143.153.245 is a Slicehost IP, but I see nothing in their account or records that I can find that would indicate they are pointing any DNS at your IP (which is how I suspect Google would have indexed that way). You may want to contact Google to see how they've come upon this index record for your site as I'm unsure of the specifics, but again, based on what I'm able to see I see no reason why this would be happening. They're not pointing any DNS records at your Slice IP so they're not (as far as I know) sending any traffic to your site via a URL you're unaware of.
If it turns out that they are pointing DNS at your slice IP you would want to send them (or their DNS provider, which is not Slicehost) a notice asking that they stop pointing the name at your IP. According to the whois records, their name servers are set with:
Name servers:
ns.123-reg.co.uk
ns2.123-reg.co.uk
Let me know if there is anything else we can help you with.
Cheers.
-- Ben H - Slicehost Join the Slicehost community! Notices and Alerts Follow us on twitter: @slicehoststatus @slicehost
It's still pretty annoying and I don't really know what I can do about it.
I use delicious to find tags for blogs that would like to write about my product.
I will have these terms in my live product though...
I am still pretty happy with 10%, since this was my cut-off for going ahead and building the product.