Not that I’m necessarily wanting to buy it from them, but it was odd to see on a google search that someone owned rexdart.com, and judging from the google page index there was something on it once, known as “Rex Dart International”.
If I owned my own big giant computer system thingie, I’d think about getting rexdart.net before that gets swiped too, but I don’t know how those big giant computer system thingies work, let alone where to buy one, or let alone how to get the money to buy one. I don’t think Dell can sell me a little box that plugs into my Optiplex to make the computer capable of acting like a big giant computer system thingie either, they can’t even sell me RAMbus memory.
At least rexdart.com is unused as opposed to being used by some club of MST3K fans who are actually furries from SoCal or something.
Thank you for letting me share this very mundane, and extremely pointless thing with you.
Both Aslan and Aslan2 are taken up. As is Aslan.net.
Thankfully, Aslan.ca is open, so hopefully some other C.S. Lewis fan doesn’t grab it from me before I can register it.
Iteki.com has been “under construction” since '99.
My own fault I fear as I used a “is your domain name free” box to check if iteki.com was free, and it was. One week later it wasn’t.
Co-inkydink? Methinks not…
Lady of the Lake is taken as well, I check every few weeks. I’ve been looking for a site to post pictures of my rabbit so that the world may be thrilled by his many moods! I believe people want to see ‘angry bunny’, ‘plotting bunny’ and the classic ‘wants to eat the rest of the t.v. cord but is blocked by the baby gate bunny’.
The people using ‘Lady of the Lake’ aren’t even fantasy buffs selling polyester Merlin robes or struggling artists with dubious portraits of nude ‘ladies’ rising from lakes, more the pity…
RexDart, owning a domain name, and having a website is actually very easy. I would be willing to help you out with any questions you might have.
As far as hosting the site, unless you are very technically adept, and can run three (3) servers, two of which are required to be DNS servers, I would say go with a regular hosting company. I use GoDaddy because they sell dot com domains for $8.95 a year, and the price goes down if you buy it for more than one year. Compare this to $35 that most places charge. I also use them to host my websites, and they charge $10.95 a month for 50MB total storage, and 1.5GB monthly transfer out. The best deal on the net. They also include a “catch-all” email address setup for free with your hosting account, which you can forward to your existing email addy if you like.
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them.
I should clarify the email thing… The catch all email is just that. It will forward any email sent to anyusername@yourdomain. This is really nice, because you don’t have to set up separate email accounts for admin, webmaster, yourself, or whatever.
Here’s what the page looked like on May 30, 2002. Apparently it was just used to pimp the guy’s ebay auctions. The View All My Auctions button in the lower-right (which is slow to load) still works. He has some interesting items listed.
NOTE: This is not intended as an ad. I am not suggesting that anyone bid on these auctions. One of them includes photos of (WWII-era) naughty playing cards, so use discretion.
Unfortunately you’ll also receive spam sent to any nonexistent address in the domain. You may not want to use the catchall as your main email account unless you have some good filters.
Hmmm, I was under the impression that when a person bought a domain name, they affiliated it in some magical computer way with the IP address of their computer (which I remember being important only to my cousin Leif, who used Linux.) So I figured you had to store the info yourself on your own server, because all the places that people usually buy webspace all have the seller’s domain (like people who get geocities, or in the old days Angelfire accounts, and it still says angelfire.com at the beginning.) Thanks for clarifying that.
I suppose if I got my own domain name eventually I’d want to make it more professional, since I’ll be a lawyer. I’m used to having some webspace, since the school provides all the students with some, and I’d like to continue posting on the SA forums (they ban you for image-leeching), so I’ll have to start looking into that when I’m a wealthy young attorney
Except I was planning on being a poor public defender, d’oh! :smack:
I own padeye.net and for now just use it to hold photos for various projects and may use it for commerce later on. padeye.com is registered but not in use AFAICT with a placeholder page.
Loopus.com seems to be owned by some band. It says on the page that they formed in 1997, so they’ve been Loopus for about as long as I have, strangely enough.
Loopus.net scares me… I can’t figure out what it’s about because it’s (mostly) in Turkish.
twickster.com is taken, alas – verizon seems to have dibsed it. twickster47.com, on the other hand, isn’t – perhaps I was too quick to change my username a few days ago.
(VanillaToast – I changed my username by emailing TVeblen, who asked TubaDiva to actually pick up the hampster and shake it.)
www.caughtatwork.net is mine only because caughtatwork.com was taken.
I see it’s up for renewal so I might snaff it up if it doesn’t get reregistered.
Unfortunately no @ in URL’s.
