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You have to defend a trademark or you can lose it. I had to assert my rights to baccarat.biz when the Baccarat crystal company tried to take it away from me. I don't blame them. But I wanted to retain the name and I prevailed in arbitration. Now I wound up not using the name (hope to someday) because (for the most part) online gaming was reserved for the brick & mortar casinos and horse racing tracks.

There are already 2 LIVE trademarks on book at TESS at (uspto.gov). One bothers me at the company wants to ("Digital on-demand printing services of books and other documents.") use it for a business involving book printing.

"NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "BOOK" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN". Sorry about that.

Noobs should become familiar with ICANN, WIPO, the US trademark database (TESS) at (uspto.gov), GDPR (European Union), and the European Union's trademark database ( https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01807570... ). As well as the rules for obtaining a trademark or patent. I hope Facebook isn't obtaining a work mark trademark. Hopefully, only a design mark. Along with the words "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "GAME" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN". Book is a generic word and doesn't show source. The EU shouldn't give Facebook an exclusive right to use book. Steve Feibish (book.us)

Money goes where it's treated best. Why don't you go where you're treated best. You obviously have a good command of the English language. So you're not limited to France, Quebec, ...

The second I saw "followed (by) 3 simultaneous offers for highly-paid jobs". My thought was that's money left on the table. This person should be working with others as a team

I only knew of the internet through what was said at management meetings at a Palo Alto research institute circa 1988. They wanted to send documents back and forth between the research institute and universities. I believe it was titled "Technology Transfer".

I brought down over 50 websites July 31st, 2018 (and didn't activate 20 others). In the hope I could get more secure hardware. And to tighten up software/websites I'd already developed.

Hardware

I'm moving to late model hardware. My workstation is a 09/2018 computer. When Intel/AMD get Spectre/Meltdown solved in hardware, I'll probably buy an even newer computer. I'll try to buy as many non-Chinese components as I can. You can get a computer assembled in the U.S. But you still get parts made in China. As soon as possible I'll buy or accept a router from Verizon that uses WPA3. I'll turn off UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) if I can. Monitor the line (passive/active taps) Put the router behind a cage/door with a security lock. Move to a more secure office environment.

Software CSS (Content Security Policy - my code was probably written before or as the levels were being thrashed out) check what's going into and coming out of Local Storage ...

Tools Kali Linux Metasploit Wireshark AIDE SELinux Security Now with Steve Gibson & Leo Laporte ... Microsoft's Enterprise Security subscription, whitelist the computer programs that can run on Windows using their signatures

You supposedly can get 10GB near Minneapolis,MN. I checked Chatanooga,TN (municipal broadband) years ago. You can get what you want. It'll cost you more for business service.

1. Herndon/Oak Hill, VA (1st city to get Verizon FIOS) 1a. I get a Service Level Account (SLA) at my home

2. FIOS is symmetric 2a. My sister, who lives a block away, says she gets residential FIOS at an advertised 1 gigabit 2b. I would get an SLA just to be sure. 2c. I was told I could get 2 or more lines

3. I was told I could run a web server. Note that this was years ago.

4. N/A

5. I seem to remember you being able to get a static IP address. Naturally, it costs more. I just use DHCP and AWS. Zero to global reach in no time.

6. I don't know if Verizon would be upset if I mention price. So I won't. I really, really like my Verizon FIOS & AWS service.

Hyderabad, India has 1gb now.

Wait for a market washout. There may be a big one coming. Then, invest it in stocks that increase their dividend every year. But say don't borrow money, or perform some other kind of financial engineering, to cover their dividend. These are the companies that are making money and are proven winners. Then let the money sit year after year after year. Unless something drastically bad about the company's business has changed.

It must have been lost somewhere in the editing, copying, and pasting. I don't see a paragraph about the root apex. I would register with someone other then the hosting company you're using. And then use the hosting company's name servers. So you then could use the root apex (jobs.us), as opposed to using a CNAME record to get to the subdomain (www.jobs.us).

I'll let others pick the registrar.

(The question becomes. What do you mean by manage domain names. The full shebang. Or only the simple stuff, like email & web forwarding.)

I use domain registrars from all over the world. And am familiar with domain registrars from all over the world. It's a result of the land rushes of the early 2000's. Where names were awarded in a round robin fashion. Pre-registering* with as many registrars as possible could increase the chance of obtaining a name. For the most part I've stuck with and had good experiences with the registrars that got me the domain names I was after. So you can just about pick any registrar and get a fairly good experience.

However; they have their quirks. I transferred some names to a register because their prices were low. But then found out they renew names once a year. As they're expiring, for only one more year. So every year I'm on pins and needles hoping my credit card won't be denied for some reason. I ran into trouble with some other companies in the fall this year when a new credit card was issued to me, and the old one stopped. Just as names needed to be renewed. Just as my Amazon Web Services bill came due.

Some registrars used to have clunky interfaces. Many have upgraded and that's no longer the case.

I would want a registrar that allows multi-year registration and auto renewal. Email & web forwarding. The ability to easily change name servers and modify DNS records (you may need to provide domain ownership to your hosting provider through modification of your txt record). A registrar that makes it easy to lock and unlock a domain, and makes it easy to get the authorization code needed to transfer a domain. A registrar that let's you have your zone file when you want to transfer to another registrar. A registrar that let's you set a privacy policy so your email address isn't shown in the whois database and so you don't receive spam messages. I have somewhere shy of 140 2nd level domain names. And I used to see 140 of the same email. You want a registrar that gives you backup name servers and name servers that won't slow you up.

(I believe my .tw domains don't allow auto renewal; and you have to renew before the expiration date. A gotcha.)

There might be legal considerations. You might want to register domains in a country where the laws are different - to avoid trademark problems.

I would want a register that isn't on shaky financial footing. Where if the registrar went out of business my domains might be tied up and/or available. It's happened.

So I guess what I'm saying is there's a lot more involved then just price.

There are a lot of domains that are much more expensive then $10/yr. Maybe those expensive domains would be worth registering if you could get a more sensible name. Maybe an extension reserved for the business you're in. As an example; if you're Wells Fargo, wellsfargo.bank $10/yr. seems kind of low. Unless the registrar tacks on charges for name servers, email & web forwarding, ... I think it used to cost $35 a year through the only registrar, Network Solutions. So I don't mind paying $15 or $20 at all. My .tw names are normally $40/yr. And other extensions can be much, much higher.

Google domains is easy to use and doesn't cost any more then the other registrars I've been using.

* I ruefully found out how credit cards actually worked after the land rushes started. They can authorize transactions on your card even though you haven't won the domain name(s). So if you want to get involved in a round robin land rush. You really want to have a high credit limit.

I get .tw names from www.bookmyname.com (Online SAS) in France for less then half the cost

In my case, it's return on investment. If I create some code for one city. Why not use that code for city X.com, city Y.com, city Z.com, ... I'm not saying it couldn't be done a different way. Using just one domain.

Read up on how blue light + retinal can knock out photoreceptor cells. Especially in your 50s and 60s. When your immune system goes downhill. You can reduce the amount of blue light on your smartphones and monitors.

You should be able to work as a freelancer until you've saved enough to go abroad. Or maybe go abroad to a low cost location (Chang Mai, ...) and freelance from there. There are a few websites that would help you find freelance (gig economy) work (15 freelance sites listed here https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/245953).

If you're really, really smart you might be able to get a full college scholarship somewhere.

There's Ecole 42 in Paris (also Silicon Valley) that's tuition free. "No degrees or special skills are required to apply, and those who are accepted attend for free for three to five years. Around 80% of students get jobs before they finish the course; 100% are employed by the end." https://qz.com/1054412/a-french-billionaires-free-teacher-le.... But Ecole 42 is hard to get into. And Ecole 42 might only accept French students. (The answer is an email away.)

I knew an investment advisory firm's record. I wanted to see what employees would say about the firm on Glassdoor. Employees that had left gave me a good indication of the firm's prowess. The review's were accurate from employees. Employees gave negative reviews. (Former management gave glowing reviews.)

In the mid to late 1980's I went for $10,000 more and a job at a regular company. A research institute. Instead of $10,000 less and stock options at a well-established startup. I regret my decision to this day. The stock option company is a name you know.

My startup didn't fail. But my initial projects failed. Project 1. I started a commercial version of Wikipedia back in 1990. Just the computer hardware and software section. I hated starting there. But that's what I knew. And that's the reason I started the project in the first place. It was harder to get info about computers back then. You had magazines (and user groups I guess). I wasn't sure of my computer programming skills. So I used an off the shelf database management system. Long story short. The DBMS didn't scale. It had a GUI front end. And as the project went along. Any change became exponentially longer. Small insignificant changes started taking an hour, then two, and finally 2 whole days to make a small change. (I was so mad I wrote my own DBMS. And since it didn't have all the bells and whistles, it was lightning quick. And changes were mere compiles that took 4-11 minutes.) I should have stress tested the commercial DBMS I bought, at the start. I just assumed I was paying a lot of money for it. It would work. There's much more that I don't have time for. I should have sought funding, I shouldn't have worked on my end of the project alone (I thought it would be in business's self-interest to provide content and update the info. At the start about 15% did. Which in retrospect was decent.), ... I should have started the startup earlier in life. My aging parents became my primary concern.

What bothers me is the CEO goes out and recruits (convinces) the best people he/she can find. Gets them to work for the company. And the founders/CEO/principals collect almost all of the money. Based on the hard work of others. All the money goes to number 1. If you want to be well compensated you have to start your own company. Or come across a Steve Case, or Khosla/McNealy. And even then you may have to demand (Joy/Andy Bechtolsheim) better compensation.

Seems to me what you describe is a business opportunity. Your business takes on the burden of obtaining the data, and putting it in an easy to use form; for others. There's a company in Pensacola, Fl that's been doing this for years with things like lottery numbers and gas prices.

I stop answering emails and phone calls. I ignore anyone ringing the doorbell. Anyone of the above can result in an action event that creates a time-consuming task. (I've found that every time a neighbor comes by its almost certain to cost me money.)

Note that several U.S. states have varying requirements for a cookie/privacy policy also.

Of course, the best course of action is to have a lawyer draw up the "Terms", etc.

That said.

I think you can get "Terms" from Google and several other companies like WordPress/Automattic under a Creative Commons License. I'm sure you can find boiler plate terms of service all over the internet. Just do a search.

The Europeans can hit you with a stiff penalty for not having a cookie/privacy policy. (But probably won't.)

"The ICO (the body responsible) has the power to serve penalties of up to £500,000 (about $800,000) to organisations that seriously breach the law."

In Spain:: "Two companies were investigated and fined. The decision concludes that the two companies had failed to comply with the obligation to provide clear and comprehensive information about the cookies they used.

"The total amount of the fines, 3,500 EUR, is very modest, especially if one considers the great enforcement powers of the Spanish DPA who could have potentially issued a fine up to 30,000 EUR per infringement in this case."

Just wanted to add. With the videos. Don't give it all away. "Make them pay for what they can't get for free."

Writing a book is another way to raise your profile. Just don't expect to make a fortune from publishing the book. Making YouTube videos is along those same lines. See Derek Banas or SlideNerd on YouTube.

Without knowing your situation in detail, and only reading half the replies. What I didn't hear was this.

Is there something in the world that is about to change that your startup can take advantage of?

In less then 60 days, in the U.S.A., the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will allow startups to advertise and accept money from non-accredited investors. That is, regular folks who aren't rich. Maybe you could partner with someone in the U.S. and if your ideas, etc. are worthy you could take advantage of the relaxed equity crowdfunding rules to raise money.

Sorry. S. Feibish.

Along those same lines. It's been Grand Central in my house around 4 a.m. I can't trust my computer and am going to print the code. Scan the printed code. Have the code retyped on a new computer. Copy the code to a disk. Compare it against the original code on the original computer. Rinse, wash, repeat until the code matches. I live in an area I un-affectionately call "Spookville". Does anyone know of a service that does this? (I realize I can hire a temp.)

That is, don't be afraid you'll lose other people's money. And use that as a reason not to act.

Don't be afraid to lose other people's money. Do whatever you have to do before you have to take care of your parents, your wife, your children. Find a mentor(s) so you avoid mistakes, so maybe you get funding. Sop up all you can from the Internet/Youtube. We never had it so good. You can learn about startups, pitching, finance, programming, etc. Be careful who you select as friends. Don't dismiss, but fade the ones not interested in success. Don't think that any project is too big for you. Don't separate yourself from society. You can't just program in a dark room. You need to get out and meet others or you'll miss something important.

If you wait till things get cheap you'll be at the end of the line (I'm thinking of not starting businesses like auctions, search, employment, etc. in the 1990's because everything was expensive. )

Learn about Robert Kiyosaki's (Rich Dad, Poor Dad) four quandrants.

Investing Learn what's meant by secular & cyclical bull markets and what their length is. Learn how important demographics are (Right now my "baby boom" generation is trying to sell it's homes to a generation with fewer people.) Learn what normally happens when the Fed pumps money into the economy. First it goes into the stock market, then the economy, then inflation takes hold. Since the emerging economies (Asia) will grow faster then the older developed economies (North America & Europe), over a long period of time the returns should be higher in Asia. If you have a long period of time (100yrs) you don't need to take risk. You can simply invest in the big, growing companies that increase their dividend year after year. Buy when there's blood in the streets. After a disaster is always a good time to invest somewhere. Just because some junior mining company says they've found an anomaly, it doesn't mean anything. So few mines prove to be economic it's unreal. 1 in 1,000? 1 in 10,000? Look it up. There's too much :)