I woke up today to complaints that one of my websites was down. It was hosted at Host Gator, who’s motto is “we eat up the competition”. When I called them, they said that my entire account had been deleted off of their web and DNS servers without explanation. Perhaps their motto could be “we eat up users’ accounts”? They refunded me three months automatically, so I must give them some credit for being proactive. However, the fact that they don’t back up anything on their servers is where my greatest concern lies.
Bad Webhosting

Not a week goes by without another two hour outage at DreamHost. Again they are dealing with network issues, but they are getting better about the proactive communication with customers. Chatter on the status messageboard is reminding some shocked new customers about the 97 day money-back-guarantee.
DreamHost Outage

Sedo is the next venue to sell some of the premium .MOBI domains. What makes this remarkable is the switch from “premium” live auctions such as TRAFFIC to the less exciting, and less profitable online auctions. It is possible that the poor showing at the last TRAFFIC where only a single premium .MOBI was sold because of the high reserve prices. Some of the 100 domains on auction at Sedo don’t even have reserve prices. It will be interesting to see how this auction performs because it will likely affect .MOBI estimates and private party pricing.
.MOBI auction at Sedo

Fabulous has gone public with the final release of Fabulous+ putting numbers to the madness: 15 templates and over 4000 images. The new interface for previews is the coolest part, and encourages viewing multiple designs.
Fabulous Plus launch