inside aebrahim’s head

My migration away from Network Solutions is now 100% complete. I’ve transferred my ebrahim.org domain away from them and moved it to Gandi SARL, located in France.

One of the cool things about Gandi is their contract (fr), which states:

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The Client owns the Domain Name registered. Gandi simply acts on the Client's behalf. Client acknowledges that Gandi services consist only of including in the shared Domain Names database, the Domain Name choosen by the Client, for the duration of the present contract and without prejudice, notably, that the Domain Name is available and that the Client respects terms and conditions of the present contract.

I have yet to find another registrar that states in such unequivocal terms that the registrant owns the domain. No longer am I a subject of the evil (and ridiculously expensive) empire of Network Solutions.

I attended an Internet Explorer Team Chat earlier today, which was mildly interesting. I’ve posted a somewhat sanitised log of the chat on my blog, so you can read for yourself and see what they said. In short, I wasn’t very impressed with their responses. They weren’t committing to anything, and most of the hard questions were tackled with “we’re constantly evaluating feedback” type of answers. After spending an hour in the chat room, I didn’t come out of there feeling any more enlightened about Internet Explorer than before I went in. Apparently they’re going to be doing this once a month now, so if you missed it this time, you can mark your calendars for the next time. Or something to that effect. Yeah.

UPDATE: Looks like Neowin.net has caught wind of this. Thanks to hao2lian for pointing that out.

Gerv recently posted an update after his recovery from appendicitis (and we’re glad you’re back!). Many well wishers left comments on his blog, and while he thanked them for their sentiment, he went on to say that most of them were wasting their time, which I thought was more than slightly distasteful (and probably incorrect from a Christian standpoint as well). After all, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims is the same God. The differences exist only in how the respective religions are practiced.

jesus_X of MozillaNews has posted a somewhat lengthy but insightful blog entry in response to Gerv’s post. While I don’t agree with everything jesus_X says, I think its worth reading, because he raises some interesting and valid points.