[photo] Mark Jeftovic

easyDNS CEO, Career Contrarian & AntiGuru

The Woody Blues

The Woody Blues – Originally a Landslide tune but this recording I was backed by Marty Knox (MercuryMen) and Scott B (Scott B Sympathy). Neil Exall behind the board. Umbrella Sound, a looooong time ago (late 90’s?)

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Running in Federal Election, Parkdale / High-Park #RESCINDC51

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Multi-Media World

My band, The Parkdale Hookers, just released this video off our new record Echo Bubble Overdrive.

BoingBoing called it “A great punk anthem”. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow I won’t have to worry about “dying with my music inside me”, as this song and the video pretty much says all I have to say. On everything
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Why We Will Not Be Registering easyDNS.SUCKS

facebook-sucksSimilar to how it's getting harder these days to differentiate actual news from The Onion satires, reality takes on a somewhat surreal timbre when it starts to imitate your April Fool's gags from yesteryear…

In 2011 we joked "easyDNS To Launch .SUX TLD", in which we posited a thinly veiled extortion racket to goad squeamish IP holders into "defending their trademarks" under a TLD which was "not intended to encourage registrations which disparage any company or entity.", but would be available for registration at blatantly exorbitant prices.

Among the steady barrage of new TLDs in the Great Namespace Expansion … Read the rest

easyDNS to Rebrand as easy.WTF

After 16 years as an iconic .com startup, easyDNS will shed its moniker and rebrand as easy.WTF.

At a press conference this morning, easy.WTF CEO Mark Jeftovic explained "dot COM is a dinosaur. That era is over. The Zeitgeist of the times we live in is captured perfectly by WTF".

The company foresees a meteoric rise in .WTF registrations as compared to .COM, going so far to predict that the total number of .WTF domains would dwarf the current incumbent by 2017.

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"We want to be on the right side of this tectonic shift", said Jeftovic, adding "no pun … Read the rest

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