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Well, it’s been a long time (10 years) with Network Solutions but I’ve finally gotten off my lazy butt and moved my domains over to GoDaddy<\/a>.\u00a0 The primary reason was to get away from paying $35 a year per domain and bring it down to closer to ten bucks a year.\u00a0 A little effort to save a little money.<\/p>\n

There will be only one casualty in the transfer: the history.\u00a0 There isn’t much documented in the Network Solutions registration but I always enjoyed being able to go look at the whois record for doe.com<\/a> and find the registration date.\u00a0 I guess I’ll have to turn to this blog entry to reminisce from now on.<\/p>\n

Doe.com – Record created on 27-Jul-1995<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Along with this date I might as well record the story behind the registration.<\/p>\n

Before working at Microsoft<\/a> I had a job at a small “start-up” (it wasn’t starting, so I use the term “start-up” loosely) named ResNova Software, Inc.\u00a0 ResNova\u2019s primary product was a BBS which, among other things, had functionality to aggregate Usenet newsgroups.\u00a0 Back then there was far less garbage in the newsgroups but there was, strangely enough, a large number of posting from some \u201cJohn Doe\u201d fellow with the address john@doe.com.\u00a0 Being the curious sort I decided to investigate who owned doe.com<\/a>\u2026 turns out no one did.\u00a0 Being the mischievous sort I decided to register it (domain names were free back then\u2026 I\u2019m also the cheap sort).\u00a0 I used to periodically check the account and respond to the occasional \u201care you real?\u201d or \u201ctest\u201d e-mail messages (and they were occasional).\u00a0 The account was also useful when I was a test lead on Outlook Express and Entourage for the Macintosh, lots of spam to throw at the product.\u00a0 Sadly, I can no longer play celebrity as john@doe.com is overrun with e-mail.\u00a0 Surprisingly the bulk of the mail is no longer spam, it\u2019s bounce messages from all the test mail, junk mail and virus mail purporting to be from john@doe.com.\u00a0 John@doe.com can receive around 250 bounce messages per minute (my previous ISP threatened to kick me off his servers because just the mail connection attempts to john@doe.com were melting his servers, there weren\u2019t even any accounts set up).<\/p>\n

Today\u00a0doe.com<\/a> is mainly a traffic generator for my blog.\u00a0 People show up randomly looking for either the U.S. Department of Energy (which was\u00a0doe.gov<\/a>\u00a0but is now energy.gov<\/a> but still didn’t register energy.com, genius!) the Doe Fund (doe.org<\/a>) and, at one time, the Canadian Department of Environment (which used to be www.doe.ca<\/a>\u00a0but appears to be no longer, it’s moved on, it’s an ex-site…*).\u00a0 Just for grins I let my online life flow into the real world, my Volvo station wagon<\/a> has the custom plate \u201cdoe com\u201d (if you came here because I cut you off on the freeway, I honestly apologize\u2026 it had nothing to do with you, I\u2019m just impatient and meant no offense).<\/p>\n

The info above covers just about everything, but it doesn\u2019t answer the most frequently asked question: \u201cIs Doe.com<\/a> for sale?\u201d\u00a0 The answer is, \u201cyes\u201d, of course, everything has its price.\u00a0 Each time I\u2019m asked I sit down and seriously consider selling the domain name.\u00a0 I don\u2019t, after all, have a mail server set up, I don\u2019t use the domain name as the identity of my web site and even the traffic it generates is nothing but a cost to me.\u00a0 Why not sell?\u00a0 Turns out I\u2019m very sentimental and really don\u2019t want to sell it, but because everything has to have a price I\u2019ve set the price at an $3 Million to cover legal fees, taxes and, of course, pain and suffering for the loss.\u00a0 I figure that amount is suitably ridiculous to drive off almost all buyers and if someone does come along willing to pony up the ridiculous fee (heck, it\u2019s a three-letter, easy to spell .com domain) I\u2019ll take the money, give half to Uncle Sam, buy\u00a0something really nice for my wife<\/a>\u00a0and put the rest in the bank for retirement.<\/p>\n

Oh, I’ll spend a little on my car too,\u00a0I need new tires for my Volvo<\/a>… they don’t seem to last for some reason.\u00a0 Must be something wrong with the car.<\/p>\n

* Much love and many apologies to John Cleese<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Note from Reeves to Reeves: Before moving the WhoIs showed “Little.org – Record created on 10-May-2002”.\u00a0 I know the domain is older than that but I’ll have to do some research to find out when I first registered it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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