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My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.
by blowski 4y ago
My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoAh! The del.i.cio.us days.
- zhte415 4y agoHaving lunch with a friend he said something I didn't expect, > but my C drive crashed and I lost the bookmarks. There's still a Delicious market.
- joshu 4y agodel.icio.us
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoI wonder if the parent was being sarcastic. I could never remember where the dots went; I suspect I wasn't the only one, and that was probably why they end up changing to delicious.com.
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- moehm 4y agoHi Joshua, when you are here, why did you choose that name, with the dots?
- quickthrower2 4y agoAlmost certainly a cheap(er) way to get a cool domain on a startup budget.
- joshu 4y agowhen i registered icio.us in 2001 or so, Doing Startups wasn’t a thing. i got it because “icious” suffixed the largest number of words
- mkr-hn 4y agoJust like old times. https://web.archive.org/web/20080906141421/http://blog.delicious.com/blog/2008/07/oh-happy-day.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080906141421/http://blog.delic... >> "So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and share it with their friends. Of course the old del.icio.us domain and all its URLs will continue to work. Also note that the domain change requires a new login cookie, which is why everyone has to log in again."
- bombcar 4y agoDelicious is one of those words I have a hard time spelling, let alone remembering where the dots would go.
- mkr-hn 4y agoAlso: interview with Joshua Schachter on the Web Masters podcast. One of those rare podcasts where every episode is worth listening to. https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schachter/ https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schach...
- Tomte 4y agoI used to have a mail address along the lines of d@nblows.com But beware, single letter local parts are not universally supported by web sites. Microsoft accounts with those mail addresses are possible (they used to be impossible), but recently I stumbled upon two other web sites that didn't like single letter local parts.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoYes, I did that single letter email way back around 2007-2008 and had it with my Bank (closed account for a company). Now, I can neither change nor login (not valid to them), and I have set a specific filter just to ignore that email from the Bank that keeps sending me newsletter and offers. I don't use the short oin.am as my primary (which is oinam.com), I have it as a alias domain, allowing me to quickly say/hand-write my email to someone and continue the conversation from my main domain -- say, ß@oin.am.
- mrb 4y agoI use an email address with a single-letter username (m@...) and have never had a problem with services rejecting it. The only problem is that rarely when I sign up for a service using a random password like gAdlzIBVom4j3Paf, it tells me "your password cannot contain your username" because it contains the letter "m". Hah!
- quickthrower2 4y agoGood old security theatre
- blowski 4y agoYep, I’ve encountered that problem fairly often. These days, I only use that email for vanity.
- nailer 4y agoHah I had the email address j@vascri.pt for a little while - same thing, everyone just got confused by it.
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- andai 4y agoWhy not danblo.ws?
- skrebbel 4y agoFwiw I also think it's the coolest thing ever
- vampiretooth1 4y agoReminded me for some reason of mikerowesoft.com - believe the story is that Microsoft sued the guy for infringement and ended up winning. Let's hope a tech company with the name Danblos or something doesn't blow up