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taco 'bout it
taco 'bout itSep 21, 2026
edible owns edible.com and edibles.com, which feels like cheating
the fruit bouquet company has acquired both the singular and plural forms of an ordinary adjective. language remains technically available to the public.
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brandingdomain names
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 17, 2024
Stupidest Drama Ever
An apparent extortion scheme involving famous writers and entrepreneurs lit up Bluesky the other night. It raises some important questions about whether Bluesky is up to the task of moderation.
blueskyextortion
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 15, 2020
Digital Decay
Why you can’t find the groundbreaking search engine AltaVista on the web anymore. Friends don’t let friends visit Digital.com without knowing the truth.
domain namesdigital.com
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 8, 2020
The Internet’s Many Branches
The evolution of the top-level domain, a solution to a technical problem that has evolved into something with lots of cultural and marketing value.
domainsdomain names
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 6, 2017
The Purple Unicorn
One of the most notable domain holdouts in internet history finally sells Purple.com to the mattress company that made its colorful name famous.
domain namesdomain sold
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 22, 2017
Deep Purple
Purple.com, a long-in-operation domain owned by an individual, isn’t for sale. On the plus side, the mattress company Purple appears to not have needed it.
domain namesdomains
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 25, 2017
An Impurrfect History
Cats.com, a domain name that has languished, is currently up for auction. Let’s take a look back of the history of the internet’s biggest domain underdog.
catscats.com
Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerDec 5, 2012
Who to host with (domain names, web space, SSL, DNS)
I'm sometimes asked who I recommend buying web infrastructure from. Here's my list based on my personal experience: Domains | SSL | DNS | Shared hosting | Dedicated hosting | Transactional email | Virtual servers Domain names: Namecheap Almost all of my domains are hosted with Namecheap. They're simple, have a super-fast web interface, a straightforward API, and have never messed me around. Most importantly, they're cheap, so I never have to regret a purchase. I transferred my domains from G
GeneralSoftware development
Ben Werdmuller
Ben WerdmullerJun 14, 2012
.clusterfuck
Amazon has bid for .book and .author. Google has bid for .app and .love. Microsoft has bid for .docs and .live. American Express has bid for .open. Opening the top-level domain system is a great idea. There are just 22 generic top-level domains right now - .com, .org, .net and so on. (There are 280 country-related TLDs, like .us and .uk.) Because digital real estate has been so limited, the price of valuable words has skyrocketed, and domain name squatting - where a name is registered purely to
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