W00t! Domain name win!
May. 19th, 2009 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuIn the continuing saga of too many irons in the fire at once....
Last summer I started the Dafcast, my project to prepare an open translation of the Talmud with an accompanying podcast. Long-time readers of this blog are aware of the ups and downs of that project.
When I started, I was able to register dafcast.net and dafcast.org, but dafcast.com was taken. It seemed dormant, but whatever.
I got a bunch of spam over the weekend from domain name poaching companies telling me that, as the owner of dafcast.net and dafcast.org, I'd probably be interested to know that dafcast.com had lapsed and was about to become available. Knowing enough about the domain registration process, and secure in my belief that there wasn't going to be a lot of demand for this domain, I didn't respond to those emails, but starting at 2pm today I tried registering dafcast.com through 1and1.com, my regular service provider.
At 2:30 it became available, I grabbed it, and the DNS has propagated. The Dafcast, in all its humble glory, is now equally available in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.
Gee, all I need now is to get back to generating content.
Last summer I started the Dafcast, my project to prepare an open translation of the Talmud with an accompanying podcast. Long-time readers of this blog are aware of the ups and downs of that project.
When I started, I was able to register dafcast.net and dafcast.org, but dafcast.com was taken. It seemed dormant, but whatever.
I got a bunch of spam over the weekend from domain name poaching companies telling me that, as the owner of dafcast.net and dafcast.org, I'd probably be interested to know that dafcast.com had lapsed and was about to become available. Knowing enough about the domain registration process, and secure in my belief that there wasn't going to be a lot of demand for this domain, I didn't respond to those emails, but starting at 2pm today I tried registering dafcast.com through 1and1.com, my regular service provider.
At 2:30 it became available, I grabbed it, and the DNS has propagated. The Dafcast, in all its humble glory, is now equally available in the .com, .net, and .org top-level domains.
Gee, all I need now is to get back to generating content.