Google Apps for Domains has Sand in their Vagina and Thus Hates This Domain.
Dreamhost, our and lots of other people’s web host, recently has been pushing people to use Google Apps for Domains to run their email and get it off their loaded servers. After reading into a bit, I decided that I would love to have the hellyeahbitch.com email pushed off to the GMail interface, mainly for their much smarter junk mail filter. So off I virtually skipped to the Google Apps site and cheerfully signed up. Here’s what I got:
What the hell? How the hell can they not support my domain?
After a little digging on some forums, I found out that Google Apps actually doesn’t “support” lots of domains. Like any domains that include the words “yahoo”, or “msn” or any even remotely dirty words like “suck” and yes, “bitch”.
Ok, well I guess I can see this to an extent. Maybe they want to keep SPAM and porn off their stuff. Thats cool, well maybe if I contact them and tell them I’m a blog thats been around for over 5 years they will understand and help me out. I mean, I want to use their stuff so they can deliver me ads and they can make a buck!
Let me just find a contact for or an email address…
…must be here somewhere…
…hmmm.
Ah, here it is thanks to a link in the forums. (30+ emails later)
Here’s what I sent:
I am a Dreamhost user and would love to use Google Apps for my domain,
but when I try to register my domain (hellyeahbitch.com) it rejects it.
but when I try to register my domain (hellyeahbitch.com) it rejects it.
I’m assuming its because I have a semi-naughty word in my domain, but
I can assure you it belongs to my blog I have run for over 5 years and
it doesn’t contain anything obscene.I was really looking forward to using Apps, is there anyway I can use
it with my domain?
After having to jump through a few hoops by replying to emails like “Are you super really sure you need to talk to someone and can’t just use our FAQ or forums?” I got this:
Hello Mike,
Thanks for your message.
We’ve had an overwhelming amount of interest in Google Apps, and we’re carefully considering each request. While we aren’t able to offer you an invitation at this time, we do appreciate your interest, and look forward to having you as a user in the future.
Sincerely,
Shashank
The Google Apps Team
Hmm, thats not going to cut it Shashank. That doesn’t address my question at all. Time for a little bitchier email:
Thank you for a bland reply that didn’t directly address my concerns.
Its unfortunate you don’t seem willing to work with me on this issue. If
you change your mind, or if this happens to hit a human, please let me
know,
since I am still very interested in using Google Apps for my domain.Mike Flynn
Hell Yeah Bitch! .com
Here’s what I got back:
Hello Mike,
Thanks for your reply.
We review a variety of factors for each new Google Apps signup. Based on
our review process, we feel that your domain does not meet our current
requirements.For more information, please visit
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=52166.Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Shashank
The Google Apps Team
Well that brought Shashank to life! Still didn’t have the balls to just come out and say that we don’t want to “support” your domain name because it has the word bitch in it, but at least I got something of an answer from them.
So Google has sand in its vagina about domain names. Its too bad, I was looking forward to using their service but fuck em. Could be worse…I saw a forum post from a guy that wanted to use the service but they wouldn’t let him because his domain had the word “shit” in it. Of course the domain was in another language and it just happened to have an incidental “shit” in the middle of it, but he said Google blew him off too.
I’ll leave you with some tips on domains that Google will not “support” with their Apps for Domain:
agnosticuntilforever.com
alittlebitcheesy.com
iwanttofuckyourbitchyshiteatingfaceupandthenkickyourdickthroughyourass.com
Feel free to add your own Google-banned domain’s below!
GoogleTV and Proof That YouTube Users Aren’t That Smart
Some guy made a “fake” web tv show episode called Infinite Solutions. Within the program, he proceeded, through the use of screencasts, to show the viewer how to get an exclusive beta invite to a new Google service, “GoogleTV”, via an easter egg in GMail’s interface. Clearly, this is a hoax. Google can’t squat without every blogger in the world waiting around staring at them, holding toilet paper, so thinking they got an on-demand TV service out the door quietly is a complete joke. That being said, TONS of retard youtubers have been following the steps that included the perfectly evil final step of logging out and back into GMail “until it works”. It only gets better when you read some of the comments on the video.
Heidenreich12 – this is simply a waste of time…i tried it 70 times with no luck
angelg0ld – I’m starting to lose faith. This takes a huge time committment but there are a few ppl that say after many tries they got it. I want it!!!! I’m using tasker and am over 160. I’ll let you all know if I get it~
I love the dude that made this. I don’t want to be forward…but he could have me if he wanted me…
via MetaFilter
Dammit Wikipedia, Stop Being Little Bitches
A little over a year ago they were bitching that someone edited the page that described them on the encyclopedia that is famous for letting anyone edit any page and now the whiners that run Wikipedia are now using the “nofollow” attribute on any and all outgoing links to rob any contributing sites of getting any Google-Love from being linked to on the world’s largest encyclopedia. As Jason Kottke puts it:
Links are currency on the web and Wikipedia just stopped paying it forward, so to speak.
Is it possible to be so idealistic and have such an inflated level of self-appreciation that one can regress into a state mild retardation? Apparently. If you disagree, how can an online encyclopedia that was formed with just great ideals get to the point where it gets angry when someone uses their site as it was created and edits their own page (even though they were guilty of “the infraction” themselves) and no more than a year later uses their now great internet mass to block the flow information to the very sites where their information mass was culled from to begin with? Yes, of course the links are still there, and they are technically still sourcing the pages as they should, but thats the “old media” way of sourcing information. The fact is no one looks at footnotes anymore. If they are looking at an article on Wikipedia about jackalopes and they want to know more about jackalopes they type jackalopes into Google and find more that way. But now that Wikipedia has decided to treat source links to clearly reputable websites as mere spam, those sites will lose Page Rank and their articles, the ones with the original information, have a lesser chance of showing up.
If the guys that run Wikipedia are so in love with their site, maybe they should take the time to really read this one of their pages closer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption
I For One Welcome Our New Video Overlords
Did anyone notice that Google dropped a cool 1.65 Billion on a little site called youTube? What you smell is the stench of genocide filling the air as the Google Army takes down another major player into their fold. “One of us! One of us! …”
If there is one truly sad thing about this whole situation is that 1.65 billion (BILLION!) dollars changed hands not long ago and it all involved stock…e.g. invisible money. Boring! If I was one of the geeky looking guys in designer glasses that started youTube, I would mandate that at least some, if not all of that money, should be turned in to dollar bills and put into a huge warehouse so that I may put on my old man style “onesie” striped bathing suit and dive straight into it Scrooge McDuck style. Of course, my mom would be screaming from the edge of the diving board “You have no idea where this money has been!” but I wouldn’t care, I’m swimming in money god dammit! ( Before I get any emails, I know that Scrooge McDuck dove into gold coins, not dollar bills, but seriously people, its a cartoon…can’t you just be serious for a moment? ) How come no one really wants to experience their money any more? Huge deals go down all the time and how does it happen? A hand shake. I want to roll around in the money I just earned, or at the very least I want huge bodyguard-types to roll up and open a huge silver briefcase filled with large bills. You know, I might even settle for a new-age “money transfer” where after the deal is done the other guy turns away from me and says “Do it.” to a weaselly looking nerd that replies “Ok boss!”. Soon after some cool but totally useless map appears on his screen as we see and Indiana Jones style gold line move across the map signifying my money moving from Switzerland to the First Bank on Olive across from the Applebee’s. Then after a little bit of calculating sounds there is a big, “Transfer Complete” across the screen followed by an authoritative bark of “Its done.” from my business partner. I walk out of the warehouse by the docks and probably go get something to eat, like how you spoil yourself a little after that paycheck is deposited…maybe I will get the meal with my hamburger! Thats the kind of big money deals I want to have happen, not a handshake and stock transfer over a Moon’s Over My Hammy at a Denny’s. Thats lame.
You’re better than this Google and youTube! …but if you are in the market for a obscenely named site, feel free to show up at my place with your minions and a bunch of suitcases. We’ll talk.
This Mike Flynn is the Most Important Mike Flynn in the World
…according to Google
…as of yesterday
Yes, last night after Google-ing my name I had found that I, Mike Flynn, was the most important Mike Flynn in the world (according to Google). How did I find this out? Well Hell Yeah Bitch! .com came up as the #1 result on a search for “Mike Flynn“. Its not there now though. The center for the Baltimore Ravens, Mike Flynn, has reclaimed the #1 spot, but it was there last night. I swear! As of this writing, I’m #2, which all obvious jokes asside, I’m still excited about. It wasn’t long ago that even searching for “Hell Yeah Bitch” didn’t even produce a link to us on Google, but a few years ago we finally climbed to #1 on that search. Now a new search’s top spot, one that proves my greatness (as compared to other Mike Flynn’s), is within our grasp. There’s no telling what I can do after taking over as the top Mike Flynn in the world….maybe I can finally start to see some progress on those camps I want to make to “concentrate” the Jewish population in.
Editor’s Note: Its just a joke! What, like the Holocaust can’t be funny all of a sudden?
Hell Yeah Bitch! .com Has $100 Burning a Hole In Its Pocket
Hell Yeah Bitch! .com takes yet another step into legimacy: We finally made some money. Finally we earned enough money to pull a check from Google! Now the smart thing would be to use this money to pay the majority of next year’s hosting bill. That being said, the idea of cashing in out in to quaters, dumping them in a kiddie pool and swimming in it naked is just as appealing. Decisions decisions.
Sync Your Browser Settings With Google
Just when I want to start hating the enormous business beast that Google has become they go and do something that that is little, simple and wonderful. Google Browser Sync has been released and it’s a Firefox extension that does all of the browser syncing that some mac users drop $100 a year for.
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
Awesome. You know, I really like Safari as a browser, but with the talk of the next big Firefox release and now great extensions like this, I might be switching to Firefox on my Macs before the day is over. (Firefox is already my browser of choice on my Windows box at work.)
Via Daring Fireball
Google’s GDrive Needs .Mac Features
According to Kevin Rose’s first sudo-podcast Google is set to release yet another web application. This one is to be called GDrive and will be online storage with an ever growing amount of storage allotted to each user. This is a cool idea, even though this could be done already with the right applications you could turn your GMail account into a sudo GDrive. Rose believes that this will be the first step in a unification of all of Google’s new and current web applications. For instance, your GMail will be stored on there…your purchased Google videos will pop up there as well as your Writely documents and the list goes on and on. I agree with Rose 100%, the creation of GDrive is something that needs to be done to start to bring together this universe of seemingly unrelated Google projects. That being said, GDrive would go from a nice idea to a killer app if they upped the anty, stuck it to Apple and released (or an open source app was created) a backup program like that of Apple’s .Mac Backup application. If you got a couple of gigs of space on this drive it would cover your email, documents and other needed system files with no issues, and the creation of a very user friendly app like Apple’s Backup where you just check the pre-programed items you want and it backs them up for you is just the thing that could make those last few holdouts move to a virtual Google Web OS once and for good. This Google version of .Mac would need to begin with backup, but it could easily move on to all the other things that .Mac does. Google already allows you to make a quick and dirty website, but they could expand to an online version of their Picasso for photo sharing (maybe someone could hack this to make it work like Apple’s Photocasting?) and even syncing between computers. With the introduction of GDrive all of those applications would be fairly easy to roll out by Google and they why would anyone pay for .Mac when they can have all the features for free and just see a few ads on their emails and blogs? I love Apple, but this is a huge opportunity for someone to really take the time and get the applications right so that they can give real competition to a server that everyone could use, but no one really wants to pay for.
Of course we all know Google’s track record for waiting forever to release OS X apps , or not releasing them at all. I have no reason to think that line will change and although said, it will be forgiven to a degree if they release a nice API that will allow those smart, handsome open source guys to whip up exactly what I’m talking about in both Mac, PC and Linux flavors.
Anyone have any idea why this wouldn’t work or more reasons to add why this would be the greatest thing since “Sample Day” at the grocery store?
As I Like to Think Paulie Shore Would Say: Linkage
Notable links from around the web that don’t really need a full post about them:
- Why did Google make their page building doohicky? I could see it as a way to pretty up your Google home page, but if thats not whats its for, then I really don’t see the point. Thats all I’ll say for now, everyone is pretty much beating this story to death already.
- iTunes finally hit the 1 Billion mark, and some lucky bastard hit the Apple jackpot by winning that contest.
- The MacBook Pro gets it first real review. What a surprise, it was done by MacWorld.
- Gadgetopia discovers the thrilling world of Snow Melters.
- kit_kat008 is proclaiming her self a slacker and is pondering the whole “Why should I blog if noone is reading it?” Been there. The secret it just write about fart jokes. Who doesn’t like fart jokes? Trust me it works. Even if noone reads it, its still funny to you. If you are feeling like a giver, head over to her blog and drop a comment.
Update: It seems that kit_kat008 has turned off her comments to people that aren’t listed as her “friend” on livejournal. I think that might be a major thing to recitify before one blogs about how no one comments on their blog.
An OS From Google Will Probably Suck
With news breaking today that Google confirmed that it is indeed making “its own OS” that will be called, ‘Goobuntu’. I can’t figure out why everyone is so excited. Let me elaborate…
Of course, they aren’t really making their own OS, they are just tweaking and retrofitting the popular Ubuntu linux distribution to their needs. So although Ubuntu is nice, its still linux and Google would have to do A LOT of work to get any version of linux ready for the masses to use as their desktop OS.
Secondly, whether you believe it or not, at least 50% of what makes an OS useable is the interface. Yeah, we all like features and stability, and you can’t have a good OS without ease of use, a decent features list, and stability, but the GUI interface is a big step to a making widely used OS. The reason I bring this up as “Reason I’m Not Psyched #2″ is because Google tends to make some crappy interfaces. Yes, for the most part GMail works fine, but its interface sucks. We all used to marvel at the simplicity of the Google search page, but can you really give me an example of a good, solid interface that Google has created (Not counting Picasso, because that wasn’t originally Google.)? Stop thinking about it. You can’t.
The third and last reason why this news completely unimpressed me is that the core “computer user group” in the world (I’m talking from Technorati to script kiddies.) sometimes tend to forget that Google is a business. A business that’s goal is to make money. A business that, up till now, has gotten very good at accomplishing that goal. So a “Google OS” isn’t going to be all gum-drops and candy canes. There’s going to be a way to for them to make money off of this. Of course that way will be with ads. Thats all Google does, in case you haven’t noticed, they print ads. So will be the ads be on the desktop? Will the ads be on your file search? Will the video your about to watch be brought to you by Target? Face it. Ads will be in there at some capacity, and if thats the case why would you use their OS as opposed to OS X, or Windows, or any of the hundreds of free, ad-free linux distros?
I know every time Google farts, the IT community stands up and takes a deep breath, but I’m not the least bit excited about this news. Sure they could do something amazing with it, they could change the face of the modern OS, but more than likely, they’ll just revolutionize the advertising business.
Via: The Register