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Announcement: domains
by anders pearson
Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:20:57
<a href="http://www.dhs.org/">dhs.org</a> appears to be having some trouble. they're a free service that provides simple domain name functionality. for the last couple years, i've been using them to point thraxil.dhs.org at this site. my main rationale for using dhs.org instead of going the 'proper' route and registering thraxil.(com|net|org) has been simplicity. i've never really bought into the whole mindset that you need a good domain to be cool. the system is a beaurocratic nightmare with the main players abusing their customers every chance they get. stories about squatters selling domains for millions of dollars just made me laugh. i've never had any great desire to subject myself to that kind of abuse.
dhs.org seems to be having problems lately though. you may have noticed that this site was inaccessible for the last couple days. it should be fixed now and thraxil.dhs.org should exist for at least the near future. however, the future is not looking so good for dhs.org. at the very least, it's unstable enough to have me worried.
so i bit the bullet and registered thraxil.com, thraxil.net, and thraxil.org. i grabbed all three because i couldn't make up my mind at it was pretty cheap. it could take a day or two for DNS to propagate fully and for any/all of them to work.
once they stabilize, you'll want to change your bookmarks and links to point to one of the new domains (for the time being, all of them will point to the same place. in the future, i might decide to different things with different ones though).
in other words, in the next couple days, thraxil.dhs.org will be deprecated.
comments
Matt Micalizzi - Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:21:57
i just started using them too... bummer.sarah - Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:22:57
It has propigated well enough for me and my shadow. You hit on the reason why owning your own domain is practical, rather than cool. Like my backpack and hiking boots, it is a shell you can carry with you while you travel through the world. Long live the thraxil.tuck - Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:23:57
but.. but... i just got a... on my... oh dear. i knew it was a bad idea.lani - Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:24:57
it's funny that such a small change could have such inexplicable emotional impact on me. overwhelming nostalgia. *sigh* could we at least make some virgins jump around and then throw them onto a ship that we will later burn? [pause] could we do it anyway?sarah - Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:26:57
I hope not, unless you get a special dispensation for the protection of born-again virgins. Hold on... what's a virgin here?anders pearson - Tue 11 Jun 2002 12:25:57
ok. dns has finally been setup and has propagated (at least to me). the new canonical url for thraxil is: <a href="http://thraxil.org/">http://thraxil.org/</a>. thraxil.com and thraxil.net will work too but i may someday put something else at those locations. and i'll add a CNAME to the dns so that www.thraxil.org works in the next day or two. i'm still figuring out how to configure zone files. having a 48 hour delay between when i edit the file and when the dns gets reloaded doesn't exactly make the learning process very easy. at any rate. please change any links to thraxil.dhs.org. i'll probably replace it with a redirect script soon.