We have updated known icons for the following sites:

add-this.com, addthis.com, amazon.com, aol.com, bing.com, bi.ng, blip.fm, blip.tv, coroflot.com, daytum.com, designbump.com, drupal.com, ebay.com, feedburner.com, feedburner.google.com, forrst.com, gdgt.com, github.com, gowalla.com, icondock.com, identi.ca, metacafe.com, microsoft.com, mister-wong.com, paypal.com, photobucket.com, podcast.com, qik.com, qik.ly, scribd.com, slashdot.com, slashdot.org, slideshare.com, slideshare.net, smugmug.com, soundcloud.com, spotify.com, and spotify.me

(more…)

Those were two turbulent days in the history of Name.ly we hope never to experience again. We were scaling the system up to offer better performance to our visitors. When everything was running smoothly and we were ready to hand the job to the marketing guys, suddenly the database RAID failed. We had the option to proceed with the immediate backup recovery however since RAIDs usually offer a solid option of the data recovery we opted in for the latter.

(more…)