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I like the idea of it, but some guy who jumps out of planes already took JimMcCormick.com (.org is still available though … hmmm).

I recently moved to another server. At 8am I gave the order to change the nameservers and sometime before 1pm it flopped (at least around me it did … it took its time in western Canada. Maybe the internet is different in Canada … hmm).

Reide wrote: “I love this Innerweb thang. In just 29 minutes, you can own a piece of it, not rent one of those shoddy Blogspot apartments.”

Ah, yes. Just remember, these are the good ol’ days and savor them. In the not too distant future we could all be paying “rent” to companies like Bellsouth AT&T and Comcast so that people on their networks can see us.

Although, I read some interesting article (can’t remember the source, sorry) about Google possibly buying up all the buried, unused “dark fiber” and starting their own internet. “Nyaah, nyaah AT&T, nyaah, nyaah, Comcast (insert your standard Cheney explitive here).” Phattboi knows the truth, but lately hasn’t been too forthcoming.

The idiot who bought my name hasn’t even put up an “under construction” sign. Oh, the indignity of 404 errors.

I bought my last name a couple of weeks ago, but had to settle with ”.net” because one of my relatives already used ”.com” for his electrical business up in Wisconsin.

I don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet.

Jim: “I like the idea of it, but some guy who jumps out of planes already took JimMcCormick.com”

I’m lucky that way. There is apparently only one Reid Stott. As if there could be any doubt. Though there is a Reid Scott that’s an actor, and one that’s a member of Parliament.

rturner: “In the not too distant future we could all be paying “rentâ€? to companies like Bellsouth AT&T and Comcast so that people on their networks can see us.”

Like that article you read, I think SkyNet, er, I mean, GoogleNet will fight that battle for us. But, yeah, it’s a concern. And none too surprising it’s the telco’s behind it.

Go ahead and make some stupid corporate move that pushes me to dump all telco services. I can do it now. Go ahead.

Paul: “I don’t know what I’m going to do with it yet.”

Oh, you’ll be glad you did when you decide to run for the House. Somebody like me can’t come along and buy it to put up a site about the real candidate.

In my case, I’m going to eventually transition my web design and photography portfolios over to the name domain. Separate the business from the fun. Google would say I probably should have done it a long time ago.

Reid: “Google would say I probably should have done it a long time ago.”

Google?

Jim: “Google?�

You are indeed the Anti-Google, but while you may pretend not to know Google, rest assured, Google knows you.

Google knows all.

I started to register my name as well, but somebody already got the domain. He’s a slick-looking (gave me the heebie-jeebies—check out dbthompson.com) realtor type. That’s not exactly the look I set out to achieve.

So, I’m tempted to snag a couple of alternatives. I have no idea what I would do with the domains, yet, but have been tempted to snag them nonetheless, on the outside chance I might want to do something with them.

Howdy reid… For the last two months whenever i changeed my dns from an old place to one of my Textdrive virtual places it has happened WAY TOO FAST! in less than 15 mins in one instance (iBTW. internet knows not about countries… i’m in vancouver). It surprised me that it happened so fast. Kinda cool. But now that i know this i will plan my moves late at night so no one is the wiser ;-).
(ain’t TextDrive cool!!)