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March 11, 2004
Domain Chosen!
Dare I go with the engrish flavored domain of MiracleSalad.com? Yes! Does it go with white wine or red? Whichever you have in your glass! Which fork do I use? None, let your mouse do the feeding! You can now contact me at soupspoon (at) miraclesalad (dot) com.
(Why I'm not linking the email address.)
I will be moving the stuff off of the old site (UHH) and over to the new one (miraclesalad.com) on a "as I can" basis, so the old site will eventually go away. :)
Posted at 08:10 AM | Web Site Stuff | Comments (0)
March 01, 2004
The Domain Search
Why the hell is it so hard to get a domain name these days? I've been checking register.com for the past week and everything I can think of (that's communicable to others) has been taken. Procrastination on my part? Sure. That doesn't revoke my right to bitch about it though.
The sad thing is, I've been on the net longer than 90% of these people too. Fall 1990--back when "the net" was barely more than gopher, veronica, email and usenet news.
I've come up with a few fun/good/cute/etc. domains but most would involve me spelling out the domain to people who: 1) don't understand l33t sp34k and/or 2) don't get the inside joke.
Some of the domains I've tried (and are already taken), include: swalker.com, sunny.com, sunnywalker.com, oxymoron.com, oxymora.com (the plural of oxymoron), procrastination.com, perspicacity.com, perspicacious.com, verisimilitude.com, spoonerism.com, and solecism.com.
/sigh.
Wondering what the hell some of that stuff is?
Why not go with .net, .org, .info, .ws, or some other domain suffix--especially when I'm not a commercial institution? First, most of the domains I've tried are also registered with those other suffixes. And second, whenever one communicates a domain name, there is a knee-jerk reaction to prepending with "www" and appending with ".com". People have to stop to think when it's not "www.domainname.com", and we all know no one likes to think.
The domain registration can just bite my ass (oh wait, bitemyass.com is taken too). :(
Posted at 03:41 PM | Web Site Stuff | Comments (0)