Ten Years Later, I Finally Received My First Google AdSense Payment
Today my Google AdSense payment arrived. I first applied for AdSense back in 2013, got approved in 2020, and today, in 2023, I received my first AdSense payout: $100.
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Page 2 of 14Gabon Reclaims the .ga Registry from Freenom
Gabon's National Agency for Digital Infrastructures and Frequencies (ANINF) announced that from June 7, 2023, it is taking back the .ga registry from Freenom, and free .ga domains registered through Freenom will be forcibly reclaimed.
Meta (Facebook) Sues Freenom, Halting New .tk/.ga/.ml/.cf/.gq Registrations
Freenom may be an unfamiliar name, but the free .tk/.ga/.ml/.cf/.gq domains certainly aren't. Freenom is the registry operator behind them, offering free domain registration that's recommended all over the internet. Well — today, it's in trouble.
Review of an Open Source Webmaster Push Tool (Baidu / Bing / Google)
As of this writing, Bing indexes within one minute and Baidu within thirty. The tool I use is one I built myself — and of course I'm going to promote my own stuff.
Public IP Service ip.renfei.net: Announcing New Geolocation Fields
My site's public IP service, ip.renfei.net, is used by many people. On May 10, 2022 a user named Qin Yi'nan left a message asking for geolocation support — and here it is.
I Shut Down My Site — Individual ICP Filing Review Requires Closing the Forum
On December 19, 2022, I got a call from Alibaba Cloud's ICP filing review telling me that the forum I ran on a subdomain didn't comply with laws and regulations, and required me to either close it for rectification or cancel my filing with them.
IT News Site cnBeta.com Shut Down, Domain Now Under clientHold
It's not just the ICP filing that got revoked — checking cnBeta.com's WHOIS, the domain has been placed under clientHold, halting resolution worldwide. A shutdown like this doesn't come from a small mistake: with the domain itself set to clientHold, they clearly crossed a red line.
Someone Hammered My API Last Night — Who or What Was Behind It?
At 12:15 a.m. yesterday my phone lit up; emails and text messages poured in one after another — network traffic alerts, CPU alerts. There must be something unspeakable behind this. Why do hundreds of threads keep dropping? Why do callbacks take forever to return? Why does MySQL keep getting assaulted?
MacWk, the Mac Cracked-Software Site, Went Offline and Went Broke — I Want to Share Mac Apps but Don't Quite Dare
On October 5, 2022, still during the National Day holiday, MacWk — the Mac cracked-software site — went offline. I'm in the official Telegram channel too, where everyone was muted. Word from all sides is that it went broke.
Hands-On With Cloudflare R2 Storage: My Experience and Take
Not long ago I got accepted into the Cloudflare R2 Storage beta, so I can see it and use it now. Here's my hands-on experience and my take on it.
