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Vanity and Volcanoes
Posted by Gareth Adams on August 16, 2007
I guess every geek goes through a phase of wondering just how geeky they are.
I recently got an email from my new landlord, whose surname is Maltby. They’d cleverly managed to buy ltby.com, which meant their email addresses were all in the form …m@ltby .com
This got me thinking about other kinds of domain hack, and to cut a long story short I now own the rethada.ms domain
It means I now have the very concise email address “g@rethada.ms” and eventually a site at http://ga.rethada.ms
All of this is made possible thanks to the sparsely populated, volcanic-ash-covered Caribbean island Montserrat. Since their population of just over 4000 don’t make use of the territory’s TLD they offer it out to non-residents without restriction, much like other vanity TLDs like .tv (Tuvalu) and .tk (Tokelau)
Needless to say, I’m pretty confident about my geekuality now.
5 comments
Paul commented on August 16, 2007 at 08:33 PM
This is absolute genius! Much respect.
Gav commented on August 17, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Yes mate. Kind of knocks my gav at gav.gs into a cocked hat!
Piers commented on August 17, 2007 at 01:22 PM
All rise ‘Geek of the week’
Sean commented on September 19, 2007 at 05:17 PM
Clever perhaps, but what about the semantic web? You care about standards and accessibility, but how does this help either of the two?
I wonder what your code looks like… hmm.
Gareth commented on July 23, 2008 at 11:32 AM
I care about a lot of things. I care about standards and accessibility, I also care about having a geeky domain name.
I even care about the price of Jaffa Cakes, but that doesn’t factor into a lot of the decisions I make during my working day.
I like to think that my domain name doesn’t hurt any standards (unless you rely on geolocation of websites by their TLD – a practice which is inherently dodgy, and only really useful for commercial entities)
I’m more worried that I still haven’t gotten around to putting anything on that web space yet.
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