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 Clearly, it was necessary to refund my…$.03.

Amazing.

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Your refund for ICANN Fee overpayment
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Dear patch monkey,

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?

Good news. You have been credited $.03/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $.03 has been placed into your Go Daddy(R) account with this customer number: XXXXXX.

Your in-store credit will be applied to your purchases at GoDaddy.com(R) until it’s gone or for up to 12 months, whichever comes sooner. If you have any questions, please contact a customer service representative at 480-505-8877.

As always, thank you for being a Go Daddy customer.Sincerely,

Bob Parsons
CEO and Founder
GoDaddy.com

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*Store credit not redeemable for cash. Credit is ONLY eligible for domains registered or renewed during the listed period. Accounts not listed in this email do not qualify for a refund.

Finally, I got a fix for a bunch of slowdowns I’d been seeing - turns out Vista has something called “Receive Window Auto-Tuning.”

This is really smart - except most hardware out there is still dumb. As soon as I found this site and followed the directions, I was in like Flynn.

Make sure you’re running as an Administrator (can open a command window as Administrator) and execute the following command at the prompt:

“netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled”

Changing “disabled” to “normal” will re-enable this setting, should you want to turn it back on again. The following command will list the status of the current TCP settings:

“netsh interface tcp show global”