[photo] Mark Jeftovic

easyDNS CEO, Career Contrarian & AntiGuru

Tag Archives: Godaddy

Why I Sold Tucows

It’s  hard post to write, but on Friday I sold most of my remaining shares of Tucows. Last year – before the reverse split I sold a little more than half, and just now I sold most of the rest. I invested in Tucows back in 2005 or 2006  for reasons which were admittedly, more [...]… Read the rest

Career-ending moments in Celebrity-CEO-ism (or HowTo Transfer Your Domain Away From Godaddy)

Sorry for the clunky title, ever since I saw the original "Kids in The Hall" Career-Ending-Moments skit, it's been a meme I've always loved and been obsessed with, especially when I see one unfold in front of my eyes.

So unless you've been living in a cave, you probably know that last week a media fracas exploded when the video of Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons killing a "problem elephant" in Zimbabwe took the internet by storm. Our original take on it was posted here.

Confession:

When we originally posted that article, we had punctuated it with an offer to … Read the rest

Any press is good press?

There seems to be a growing backlash across the internet in response to Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons and what is being called his "Elephant Snuff Vid". It was a video he made while on a recent vacation in Zimbabwe wherein he kills a "problem" elephant and saves the day for a local farmer whose crops were suffering the worst of it.

(As an aside, it is less known that I too was recently on vacation: in Barbados. I made a video of my own. For the first time in my life I went to a Karaoke bar and I actually Read the rest

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