Domains for the hell of it
Posted at 11:45 am on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, in Technology, and tagged domains.
Back in the hey-day of the Web 1.0 bubble, a silly company NameZero gave users free domain names. So I went on a roll, and acidtrain.com, anti-gop.com, liberalactivist.com, radical-side.com and re-election.com were all mine, along with several others (including any derivation of my name, with dot-net and dot-org alternates, anything that I could think of really).1 It was the worst business plan in the history of the internet’s worst business plans, except for maybe the free shipping of textbooks idea by BigWords,2 but both are still in business apparently.
In all, I may have “owned” ten or fifteen domains. (“Owned” is in quotes because I never actually owned them, NameZero did, but I was able to use the domains as if they were mine. I set up redirects to existing subdomains.) I don’t use or own any of the domains that I had registered with the service anymore (they were obviously not as important as I once thought they were). Some of them have probably been picked up since. I lost track. Why am I telling you this? I have no idea.
Notes- I also owned engineeringdogs.com, and used it for a class project. ↩
- I had a classmate that had a substanitial credit with BigWords when they went bankrupt in 2001. ↩
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