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> The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of a URL" – when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was "silly and unpronounceable" – try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'".
My (family) name has an 'a' in it that I replace with the '@' of the email address, so Rauzy becomes r@uzy. I have the domain "uzy dot me" just for that.
A friend of mine saw this at some point, and decided to use the same trick, except his family name ends with the TLD of a country so he could also use that to (not gonna tell his email address here but, e.g., Grahams would be gr@ha.ms).
- https://hecatom.be/ using the Belgian TLD to make the word "hécatombe" which is the title of the song of which the lyrics are on the web page.
- https://hachis.ch/ using the Swiss TLD to display an ascii art of a cannabis leaf.
- https://marselh.es/ using the Spanish TLD to make up the word "marsélhes" which means "marseillais" (i.e., inhabitants of the city of Marseille is the south of France, where I am from) in provençal (the local dialect of occitan, the historical language of this part of Europe), the website displays random pictures of the calanques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanque).
- https://libertai.re/ using La Réunion's TLD to make up the word "libertaire" meaning libertarian (in the sense of anarchism not of libertarianism) and it is simply a landing page that displays the logo of and links to a french political organization called UCL.
- https://alexandr.in/ using India's TLD to make up the word "alexandrin" which means alexandrine in French, a type a verse, where I still host old poems I wrote years ago.
And, not really in the same vein of using a TLD to make up a word, but still the the category of cool domain names, in addition to the one for my personal email address I mentioned in my first comment in this thread, I also have:
- https://pablockchain.fr/ mixing my firstname "Pablo" and the work "blockchain" — and also sounding like "not blockchain" (pas blockchain) in French — to centralize all my blockchain-related work, mostly in French.
- https://pablo.plus/ to have a single and simple link to see more (hence the "plus") about me (it's actually a kind of self-hosted linktree). I use it for the sole link authorized on my twitter profile for example.
I think I'm gonna stop here haha, I should get back to work!
Or you could host your mailserver but that's never a good time.
(the website's original title is boring and meaningless)
That sentence would be on the page regardless the owner. So someone actually got there before. But it was you!
“all uppercase no spaces”
People have no idea how email works (and why should they?).
It's run by https://e.foundation/
Many people don't bother setting this up themselves. Others want to have a shared email domain similar to Gmail.com with their first name before the @, instead of their full name in the domain name.
Bobs Builder's web: bobsbuilders.co.uk email: bobbuilder@blueyonder.co.uk
And I always think: "you went to the effort to get a domain name and put a website up, but you couldn't go the one more step and have your email point there too?" Especially since you likely hired a web company to do the website, why didn't they also do the email? At least in these cases a company's web-savvyness (or grammar) don't necessarily affect their building skill.
1234 York Street or 1234 Miller Street
and they will not assume you live in York or work for the brewery making Miller Lite...
It's been 40 years, people could have wisened up how email addresses work.