Feeding another addiction

[mdlbear]

OK, so I'm a domain-name addict. It won't be available for a day or two, but having thought of it in conjunction with my little home-schooling project, I just had to register hackwarts.com.

And in a pleasant change from the evil morass of internic/network solutions/verisign, GoDaddy has a nice, friendly user interface, low prices, and hosts your DNS for free (giving you full control over your MX, A, and CNAME records -- I didn't see TXT or AAAA, but I don't need them right now).

Comments

[johno.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that have been a .edu or at least .org domain???

[mithriltabby]

Unfortunately, .edu is only for accredited 4-year universities. Otherwise I’d have amurgsval.edu instead of amurgsval.org...

[mdlbear]

Wish I could have. Only for actual colleges, unfortunately. Maybe someday...

OTOH the .com suggests that I might, at some point, be selling the sorts of things you might find in college bookstores (if not selling actual diplomas...)

[mithriltabby]

It’s the perfect domain for a meaningful certification for various computer skills. (“MCSE? No. CCNA? No. Hackwarts? You bet!”) Maybe get a picture of Tux in a conical blue hat with moons and stars?

[mdlbear]

sounds good -- I'll make it a project for one of the classes. The idea, of course, is to have the kids build the site.

[mdlbear]

Actually I was thinking of a conical hat with appropriate softwarish symbols. Something like...

    ^
   / \
  / * \
_/ #!$ \_