Posts written by Gareth Adams
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Vanity and Volcanoes
Posted by Gareth Adams on August 16, 2007 at 03:45 PM
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.