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The Era of AAPL is Over

Written by Mark Jeftovic on November 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

I got a few comments from my “Tech Pair Trade of the Century” post awhile back along the lines of “Short AAPL? Good luck!” and “Long RIM? Good luck!”. So it was with interest I noted this week (13F week, when all the “big boys” file their 13-F’s with the SEC) that two very large [...]

Tagged AAPL, David Einhorn, Paul Tudor Jones, Publicly Traded

Ultimate Buy Signal for RIM?

Written by Mark Jeftovic on July 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

I have long since thought that RIM was going through an unprecedented bout of negativity which has had it on my “watch list” for months. Contrarians love this type of stock, John Templeton always tried to “buy at the point of maximum pessimism” (there is a good book by that title, and you may also [...]

Tagged Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax, Jason Jennings, Jim Collins, Prem Watsa, Publicly Traded, Research In Motion, RIM, RIMM

The Map is not the Territory

Written by Mark Jeftovic on November 18, 2011 Leave a Comment

Can a domain name be the difference between success and failure in a business? Are domain names the single best investment one can possibly make in one’s business? These are the main questions debated in an ongoing chain of posts, then my comments, and a follow-up post, and another of my comments and yet another post between myself and Andrei over at DomainingTips.

The conventional wisdom among domainers is that without the domain name, you’re nowhere, or, investing in domain names is the single best thing you can

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Tagged Domaining

How to tell if a new TLD will succeed (and most won’t).

Written by Mark Jeftovic on June 16, 2011 Leave a Comment

spacer I just read Rick Spence’s “What’s in a name? It could be a fortune on the Internet“, (HT to HybridDomainer), which seemingly dials the needle back to (pick one), 2005 or 2007, or maybe 2010 and drinks the Kool-Aid every domainer has on an IV drip: the notion that fortune and success can be achieved

simply by virtue of “owning the right names” (i.e How can we be bankrupt? Don’t we own TenMillionDollars.com?)

Only in this case, he’s talking about the seemingly impending new top-level-domains. “New domain names will rank above the current crop”,

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Tagged .CNOBI, .MAC, Apple, Domaining, ICANN, iCloud, landrush, New TLDs, sunrise

easyDNS launches .SUX Top Level Domain

Written by Mark Jeftovic on April 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

/04/01/11 TORONTO/ – easyDNS Technologies Inc., the ultra-cool DNS guys, today announced it is moving forward to secure .SUX under the ICANN new TLD process. The .SUX domain is not intended to encourage registrations which disparage any company or entity. “A number of factors have converged to make this possible”, said CEO Mark Jeftovic, “the [...]

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  • "I would say outside of Mark Jeftovic there is no one else on this planet who cares what he thinks. Another over inflated ego that is a nobody."
    -- John Beckwith
  • spacer I live in Toronto, Canada with my wife and daughter, I'm the founder and president of easyDNS.com - the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a libertarian and former Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).

    In my copious spare time I blog here about doing business on the internet, moderate the ChessForums.org website and play guitar in The Parkdale Hookers, an indie power-pop group who releases all of our music under a creative commons license.

    I can be emailed at markjr@myprivacy.ca (requires verification)

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    • The Era of AAPL is Over 11/15/2012: I got a few comments from my “Tech Pair Trade of the Century” post awhile back along the lines of “Short AAPL? Good luck!” and...
    • The Ron Paul Farewell Address 11/15/2012: This is the most important, relevant and germane speech since Eisenhower’s farewell address. Before you dismiss people who espouse “liberty” as nutters and kooks, before...
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    • An innocuous comment that became a billion dollar deal 06/02/2012: About a hundred years ago, in the early early days of easyDNS, I was asked to give a talk about DNS and domain names at...
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