It’s one thing to negotiate and sell a domain name for cash, yet something different altogether negotiate, sell, and transact using bitcoin.

And the most interesting thing about this jackpot-of-a-domain-sale is that it was an .IO domain. Let that sink in.

Welcome to KickstartCommerce.com! Let me guess. Your website is not allowing you to update WooCommerce Product Attributes, right?

Or, if not WooCommerce, then maybe you’re encountering all sorts of javascript errors with a site that is severely hobbled in functionality, if not completely dead in the water and not functioning at all.

Whether you have plugins beefing with plugins or themes beefing with plugins, I aim to help you rehabilitate your WordPress website back in order, functioning, and in tip-top shape.

Global and local tourism has certainly been greatly impacted in ways that will never go back to what it once was.

In fact, it’s been predicted that global passenger traffic (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) will not return to pre-COVID 19 levels until 2024, a year later than previously projected — as cited by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

And if it’s greatly impacted global travel, then one could only imagine the abysmal impact it’ll have on the local touring scene throughout the world.

Recently, a customer of 15+ years contacted me requesting technical assistance in regards to an upcoming book launch.

In the book, the customer references a few links that are to redirect readers to a website of on-page apps containing interactive charts and graphs. Readers are able to visit website, add their own data, and then view the same data as well as adjust the data using charting and graphing controls.

To achieve the interactive charting and graphing functionality for each app on website, this customer chose to use Shiny Server from RStudio.com. I had not realized the full capability of the RStudio service offering as a robust professional data science solution for reporting.

Nevertheless, the customer contacted me because they preferred not to use RStudio Connect and Shinyapps.io in favor of desiring to use Shiny Server Pro. However, the one catch with using Shiny Server Pro is that it requires a Linux Server — this customer is a Windows shop. 😳

Some would say they are the “King and Prince of .IO Domains”, while others have not a clue who either gent is if they were to pass them on streets — including me, and I grew up with one of them. 😬

The gents I speak of are none other than Mike Carson — serial entrepreneur, software developer, and founder of Park.io, and the guy I grew up with and reconnected with at NamesCon Global 2020 in Austin, Texas, Steve Webb — partner and researcher, developer, and marketer at Park.io.

Both are down to earth and very unassuming gentleman that blend into an environment about as good as a chameleon. Heck, had either gentleman not wore Park.io gear or had NamesCon lanyards and name badges, I would have not ever known the Park.io founder and partners were ever in the building.

They certainly don’t make much of a splash in person, but online is where they shine and make their presence known in a mighty and fierce way with one of the hottest domain extensions this last and this decade: .io.

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in August, ranked by number of downloads:

Having developed hundreds of websites for others as well as my own, I have had my fair share of experiences with a wide range of web hosting providers.

I’ve hosted sites with Bluehost, HostGator, InMotion, Hostway, DreamHost, HostMonster, and GoDaddy. All have their pros and cons, and hacked experiences.

GoDaddy and Bluehost were once my go-to web hosting providers. I still have a few personal-developed websites and projects that use GoDaddy shared hosting, but my go-to web hosting providers this season are A2Hosting and RoseHosting.

For one, they offer way more affordable manage hosting virtual private server plans with greater scalability and performance than all previously used web hosting providers. I love the increased performance my websites have realized with SSD (A2Hosting) and NVMe (RoseHosting) storage. And don’t get me started about their quicker-than-lightning customer support experience — the team is so personable and knowledgeable.

Quite honestly, I’m willing to pay more for customer support, and managed services, and simply not to be ‘nickeled and dimed’ for every little thing and service offering.

While I love both A2Hosting and RoseHosting, I was reminded the other day about my experience of attempting to SSH into my RoseHosting environment.