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dotat.atReminds me of Slashdot
> The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of a URL" – when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was "silly and unpronounceable" – try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'".
Neat! I always thought it was a reference to the `/.` you might type in Unix
You mean "./"
I really do mean the root directory! As in, a kinda joke that meant the site was a central place for news, so it would act as a root directory for that
What is the dot for in your `/.`?
It's what you'd use as an arg to `cp` if you wanted to copy the contents rather than the directory, for example.
The self-referential directory inode.
h-t-t-p-s colon whack whack slash dot dot com
I also have a domain just for the cool look of my personal email address.
My (family) name has an 'a' in it that I replace with the '@' of the email address, so Rauzy becomes r@uzy. I have the domain "uzy dot me" just for that.
A friend of mine saw this at some point, and decided to use the same trick, except his family name ends with the TLD of a country so he could also use that to (not gonna tell his email address here but, e.g., Grahams would be gr@ha.ms).
For the same reason, I keep trying to get "jo.sh". At one point it was at a domain parker (divido) that offered to auction it, but they never actually did the auction. Now it seems to be registered but not pointing anywhere. I'd love to find who has it and make them an offer for it.
Haha, I totally understand that. I kind of have a geeky love for cool domain names like this. I abandoned most of them with the time passing mostly because of unjustified price increase… but I still have a few of them. For examples :
- https://hecatom.be/ using the Belgian TLD to make the word "hécatombe" which is the title of the song of which the lyrics are on the web page.
- https://hachis.ch/ using the Swiss TLD to display an ascii art of a cannabis leaf.
- https://marselh.es/ using the Spanish TLD to make up the word "marsélhes" which means "marseillais" (i.e., inhabitants of the city of Marseille is the south of France, where I am from) in provençal (the local dialect of occitan, the historical language of this part of Europe), the website displays random pictures of the calanques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanque).
- https://libertai.re/ using La Réunion's TLD to make up the word "libertaire" meaning libertarian (in the sense of anarchism not of libertarianism) and it is simply a landing page that displays the logo of and links to a french political organization called UCL.
- https://alexandr.in/ using India's TLD to make up the word "alexandrin" which means alexandrine in French, a type a verse, where I still host old poems I wrote years ago.
And, not really in the same vein of using a TLD to make up a word, but still the the category of cool domain names, in addition to the one for my personal email address I mentioned in my first comment in this thread, I also have:
- https://pablockchain.fr/ mixing my firstname "Pablo" and the work "blockchain" — and also sounding like "not blockchain" (pas blockchain) in French — to centralize all my blockchain-related work, mostly in French.
- https://pablo.plus/ to have a single and simple link to see more (hence the "plus") about me (it's actually a kind of self-hosted linktree). I use it for the sole link authorized on my twitter profile for example.
I think I'm gonna stop here haha, I should get back to work!
somewhat along those lines, i acquired gaddis.es because it makes the plural of my family name, which i thought would be a fun way to give out email addresses to the rest of my family… so far nobody else thinks it’s as funny as i do :)
How do you set up an email account with that? I wanna do that too with my name
Most registrar (i.e., company that sell domain names) offer at least one email account with the domain name, it's the case for example with OVH or Infomaniak. Otherwise you could use a mail account from Proton or FastMail for example, they let you use your own domain name :).
Protonmail or apple mail allow you to use your own domain.
Or you could host your mailserver but that's never a good time.
HN title is broken; it is presumably supposed to have the important "@" symbol.
(the website's original title is boring and meaningless)
> I’m still slightly surprised that no-one got there before me!
That sentence would be on the page regardless the owner. So someone actually got there before. But it was you!
My wifi password is "there's a space in it".
Classic Rocket Jump: https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI?si=ndIiB6cFvtrn1JdL
“All one word”
For years mine was:
“all uppercase no spaces”
This is brilliant and has my whole family in stitches
Mine is fork handles
"I won't tell you the password"
Mine used to be "something easy".
24446666688888888
"You won't get it"
I‘m using notmyhostna.me as my email address and every time I have to provide it in person or on the phone I kinda regret it because people seem to not know much about TLDs.
In my experience, having an email address ending with any custom domain other than "gmail.com" raises questions and clarifications are necessary quite often.
I keep getting asked about "<yourbusinessname>@mydomain.com" every time. "Oh, you work here too?".
People have no idea how email works (and why should they?).
I see a lot of vans in the UK with things like:
Bobs Builder's web: bobsbuilders.co.uk email: bobbuilder@blueyonder.co.uk
And I always think: "you went to the effort to get a domain name and put a website up, but you couldn't go the one more step and have your email point there too?" Especially since you likely hired a web company to do the website, why didn't they also do the email? At least in these cases a company's web-savvyness (or grammar) don't necessarily affect their building skill.
How is it different than if you give your address as
1234 York Street or 1234 Miller Street
and they will not assume you live in York or work for the brewery making Miller Lite...
It's been 40 years, people could have wisened up how email addresses work.
Because they can't differentiate between "stavros@yourbusiness.com" and "yourbusiness@stavros.com".
I know, I didn't ask how to mix it up but why it didn't become basic knowledge by now? :P
Because nobody knows why "business1@gmail.com" and "business2@gmail.com" are actually different businesses, but "business1@stavros.com" and "business2@stavros.com" aren't. Who knows if your domain is a mail provider or not, or what a domain is, or how mail servers work, etc etc.
"dot at, dot at, dot at"
aich tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org
All jokes are contextual and require cultural understanding.
not as satisfying as a friend's "<name> at at dot dot see see"
I see that they have an lspace.org address. That host doesn't go anywhere, but the much more interesting wiki.lspace.org does - the Discworld and Terry Pratchett Wiki!
I have `sahil@e.email`. Don't know if they still accept new users!
It's run by https://e.foundation/
I've been waiting forever and Google still hasn't launched the TLD, but when they do I want to try and snag "put@emailaddress.here"
Servas!
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for that price i can register my own domain
To each their own.
Many people don't bother setting this up themselves. Others want to have a shared email domain similar to Gmail.com with their first name before the @, instead of their full name in the domain name.