What was once the best registrar is probably now just a mediocre one. What was once the best place to get shared hosting is now swarming with spammers, bandwidth-hoggers, viruses, worms and opportunistic customers who think nothing about responsibility when running on a shared hosting platforms. My last standing refuge, a few virtual dedicated servers which have given me no reasons to complain in the past 2 years have suddenly turned … hopeless.

This was bound to happen. But it didn’t have to. For an open source framework like DotNetNuke, so powerful and widely adopted, yet blogging or even publishing an article was an after-thought. In the OpenSource world they say, “The product has to be absolutely top-notch to succeed” and yet instead of harnessing and shoring up on the success of DNN, the Blog module stands there, lackluster in every sense, reeking of neglect, derelict, unending wait  except for the oohs and aahs of what’s about to come in the next version.

IDNs (International Domain Names) have been around for a long time. And Microsoft had an Office 2007 Language Pack available for Hindi more than a year back. Considering that Exchange Server 2007 is running post sp1, one would assume that something as simple as getting an email to an IDN email address would be straightforward. Fail.