Great info. What's you take on branding trademarks, such as my company name? Is this something I can do myself, or is a lawyer required? Is it even worth the time to trademark my company name? Thanks.
You know, I honestly didn't even consider trademarks as a question for some reason. But, I think that's an awesome point that I can't believe I overlooked, so thanks for pointing out a huge oversight on my part.
I think trademarks have their place, but it's something that's really only useful when you're a larger competitor in your industry.
Ex: The crocodile or american alligator is a keystone species that allows an entire ecology to survive and thrive. Twitter's "trademark" is a keystone because it has allowed numerous companies develop through it's trademark such as tweetdeck and etc. The term tweet has become a dictionary term at this point so their trademark is very valuable. But, it's only valuable now because they've reached critical mass.
The irony is that if you don't trademark your name early, then someone else will steal it before you do. I think that it's a decision that needs to be examined thoroughly because it is somewhat expensive. I will definitely start another podcast series on trademarks specifically to address this issue!
Honestly, off the top of my head I have no idea. I've registered a few trademarks but its been a while so I need to refresh my memory and do some due diligence before I give you any numbers or facts. Sorry, but I'll definitely write a post and record a podcast that will go over the highlights and specifics.
Thanks for pointing out the typos, fixed em up. Also, thanks for the feedback, you certainly have spot on comments. Writing marketing/copy text, is an art form, which I have not yet perfected, but still a work in progress.
You might look into getting a more brandable domain name as well. I registered trynode.com a couple weeks ago, for instance. There are plenty of strong names out there.
nodedemo.com, nodejump.com, nodegem.com, noderun.com -- all available.
Funny you should ask, this was actually a question that Robert Morris asked on my YC application. I don't view Heroku as a competitor. In fact, I believe they announced that they abandoned their node.js experimental hosting.
However, Joyent really has a leg up on node.js hosting, and seeing as they employ Ryan Dahl and just basically bought node.js, it could be difficult to gain market share, but I believe there is room for others to play.
Actually, Heroku has 1,000 people running node.js apps on their platform. The first phase of the experiment is over, but they're releasing the new version of it next year apparently.
I stand corrected, but still feel Joyent is the major player at the table with four aces as of now. Plus, it will be interesting to see what salesforce.com does with the direction of Heroku.
Does anybody else think $1/Mo a zone/domain is high? Sure its nice that a million queries is only going to run you $0.50, but I suspect most people have a lot of domains, but little queries. Makes sense if you have a single domain, that gets a boat load of DNS requests, but if you have a lot of domains, with very little requests, its not cost effective.
I was thinking the same thing upon first inspection. We have about 200 domains with DNS Made Easy. We don't even get close to the allotted queries for the account. I think we pay about $180 per year for all 200.
I'll need to read up on this a bit more. It does appear to be significantly more economical to stay with DNS/ME.
It's a lot more favorable when you have few domains and many queries. We have many tens-of-millions of queries per month, on only two domains. This would cut 75% off our DNS hosting.
"The query resolution functionality of Route 53 is based on anycast, which will route the request automatically to the DNS server that is the closest."
I'm the same as you, and have a few hundred domains that I use with DNS Made Easy. I had just started looking for an alternative to them to try to lower our costs, so I was excited to see this until I saw the price. This will work well for people with a few domains that receive a large number of queries. Anyone know a cheaper alternative to DNS Made Easy?
I host a ccTLD domain with Godaddy's Off-site DNS. I'm amazed by the fact that it's completely free even for domains not purchased from Godaddy, in compare to other DNS hosting services like DynDNS or Nettica. They limit 40 records per domain but i don't think you'll use more than that. The service fits perfectly if you have a domain portfolio with low traffic.
Disclaimer: I don't know/care about support since my site is non-critical but Godaddy promises premium service coming soon. My site is running smoothly serving 10+ mil. pageviews per month. Time using Godaddy's DNS until now: 3 months
The DNS hosting service we used in the past charged us $13.95/year per zone.
Slicehost doesn't charge you anything for DNS hosting if you use them for some kind of VPS hosting. We use their DNS for our (dev and staging) servers that aren't even hosted on Slicehost and it doesn't seem to be a problem. It's the one reason why we continue to keep a few of our VPS servers hosted there since competitors such as Linode are so much cheaper now.
I am looking to attend, will make the trip up from San Diego. Any word on who the speakers will be? Would be amazing to have Ryan. Certainly, let's do drinks or something with other HN peeps after.
