Thoughts regarding a future domain name
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brooksmosesOne of the many things that gets overturned in my life when I graduate (or shortly thereafter) is my email address. And so I've been thinking a bit about how best to solve this problem.
A piece of the solution is that a group of friends of mine are running a small server as a co-op, and would be glad to let me have an account on it in return for an appropriate share of the collocation fees. The one remaining point is that they've set it up so that each person is using their own domain name for email addresses -- and, besides, it would be just as problematic to have my "permanent" email address tied to "my-friends-coop.net" as it is to have it tied to stanford.edu.
So. The question that this leads to, of course, is "What shall I choose for a domain name?" This is what I've got so far:
I think that's all the ideas that I've had lately. Thoughts, additions, comments?
A piece of the solution is that a group of friends of mine are running a small server as a co-op, and would be glad to let me have an account on it in return for an appropriate share of the collocation fees. The one remaining point is that they've set it up so that each person is using their own domain name for email addresses -- and, besides, it would be just as problematic to have my "permanent" email address tied to "my-friends-coop.net" as it is to have it tied to stanford.edu.
So. The question that this leads to, of course, is "What shall I choose for a domain name?" This is what I've got so far:
| Domain Name | Pros | Cons |
| droplet.net | A nice echo of my current server's name, droplet.stanford.edu | Taken by a holding company. No doubt too expensive to buy. |
| whorls.net | Similar to droplet, in being a single fluid-mechanics-related word. Echoes the "Big whorls have little whorls" poem about turbulence. Is one word, relatively short. | Doesn't really resonate with me. (Would probably grow on me, though.) |
| dropletfield.net | Contains droplet. Has echoes of my current research/career interests, and sounds nicely sciency. | Is a bit long, particularly if I add third-level names to it. |
| myfirstisp.net | Is very cute. Is also true. | Is very cute. |
| zq0.net | Is as short as I can get in an available domain name. Has a rather euphonious sound to it. | Signifies nothing. |
| dpdx.net | Short. Also means something; dp/dx is a pressure gradient. | Possibly odd to have math in one's domain name. |
| unicornsoup.net | Is somewhat more lighthearted, less "engineeringish". The sound of the name is pleasant. | What does it mean? Does it involve harm to unicorns? |
| lunavax.net | Nice sf-ish echo of kremvax | The server isn't really a Vax. And the lifetime-wear properties of the joke may not be as good as one would desire. |
| oortvax.net | Possibly a nicer name than lunavax, and the word boundary is easier to spot. | Same possibility of the joke wearing thin. |
| cutename.net | Very meta. Also possibly funny. | Excessively meta. Also likely to wear thin. |
| tincansandstring.net | Another cute name... | ...which I am unlikely to really want. |
I think that's all the ideas that I've had lately. Thoughts, additions, comments?
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Date: 2004-09-05 10:57 pm (UTC)Of the others on the list, dpdx.net is my favorite. I don't think there's anything odd about having math in a domain name. :)
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Date: 2004-09-05 11:05 pm (UTC)I do think I like dpdx.net; currently its main problem is that I just thought of it as I was typing this up, whereas much of the rest were things I thought of a week ago, and so they've had rather more time to grow on me.
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Date: 2004-09-06 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 02:05 am (UTC)Also, now I have an idea of how you found me. I'd wondered.
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Date: 2004-09-06 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 04:34 am (UTC)Stay away from zq0 unless you forever want to be explaining "no, you type the number 0, not the spelled out word zero."
And cute is boring. (Sorry. I'm a grump on that one today.)
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Date: 2004-09-06 04:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 05:39 am (UTC)I have no opinion on the rest of the names. I have used up all my domain naming creativity for the year on someone else.
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Date: 2004-09-06 06:09 pm (UTC)But yeah, I'd recommend looking at the other TLDs ; no reason not to, after all.
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Date: 2004-09-06 06:51 pm (UTC)Thing is, I haven't found anything I wanted that wasn't available in .net that was available in something else. Even for things like .us or .info or suchlike, and they seem sort of "fake" to me somehow anyway. (Except for .us, which just seems excessively geographically-tied.)
Re: Thoughts regarding a future domain name
Date: 2004-09-06 03:30 pm (UTC)anything starting with "my" gives me hives, *grin*. cute wears thin for me real quickly.
consider stepping outside of the *.net TLD if you like droplet best?
Re: Thoughts regarding a future domain name
Date: 2004-09-06 07:07 pm (UTC)Computers
Date: 2004-09-06 08:30 pm (UTC)You said you found a link that showed how to fix the crappy AC plug, if you could E-mail me that site or anything to help, i've tried talking to HP customer service and I can't handle it anymore...
Thanks,
Tom Hughes (TH66@evansville.edu)
TinCansAndString
Date: 2004-09-27 08:13 pm (UTC)after thinking about it for years.
Subtitle: "A global telecommunications empire."
Blogger.com somehow got confused, and sent me here.
visit sometime (TinCansAndString.net/TinCans/).
Josh