Not too many know, that I’ve been involved with ICANN’s process of setting up new TLDs since 2009. With 24 days left to register and no initiative in sight to establish a .CAPETOWN for them …
Author: randolf
The SA weather service amendment bill and why it kills off private competition
Disclaimer: I write this as the owner of weather.co.za – a privately held weather forecasting site that has definite plans to extend it’s offerings to launch and produce it’s own weather forecasts and warning data very …
3Gstore.de sold for 135 000 Euro
German blog: 3Gstore.de nach Bieterkampf für €135.000 verkauft This news was supposed to break with a (german languaged) press release by Sedo, but as a domainer blog broke the news I don’t want to be …
The biggest .co.za domain hosting companies
People who know me, know that I’m 1. into domain names (owning quite some .co.za them, not only weather.co.za, (fly-)nationwide.co.za and runner.co.za 🙂 and 2. into stats so I wanted to share some findings that I found to …
Angel Investors Group in South Africa presentation
Update from 2014: Since writing these blogposts on angel investments in South Africa in 2008 and 2011 I became an advisor and Angel Investor at Startup-Incubator Springlab. Please pitch your startup to Springlab, if you’re …
Groupon acquires Twangoo but misses groupon.co.za
To my knowledge, this was scheduled to released on Friday, but Groupon Inc. just issued this press release, where they announce: CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Groupon (http://www.groupon.com) announces the launch of Groupon India, Groupon Israel and Groupon South …
Groupon to launch in South Africa in cooperation with Twangoo
As the whole startup world is going crazy over Groupon and it’s alleged 6 billion $ (US, not Zimbabwean!) offer from Google, I just want to look onto the tiny South African market, where it …
Dead Whale removed on Cape Town promenade…
It was this morning that I read via bradley on twitter that a Whale was currently removed from the Sea Point promenade. I was on the scene a few minutes later and could shoot the …
Cape Town Entrepreneur Stephan Ekbergh sells Travelstart Europe!
Great news for Stephan Ekbergh and for South African entrepreneurs hoping to make it big! My Friend Pip just found this story: eTRAVELi acquires the european arm of their competitor Travelstart – this adds just …
3Gstore.de in Bochum – world’s first iPhone store now in Germany
We started selling the iPhones in our 3Gstore.de exactly one year ago and we quickly became the leading store on the german internet. Now it’s time to go offline and become the first iPhone store …