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Dot Dotat.at

90 points by saclark11 3y ago

tacker2000 3y ago
Servas!
- sambazi 3y ago
  dere
cushpush 3y ago
"dot at, dot at, dot at"
- dsr_ 3y ago
  aich tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org All jokes are contextual and require cultural understanding.
- bnewbold 3y ago
  not as satisfying as a friend's "<name> at at dot dot see see"
timmorgan 3y ago
My wifi password is "there's a space in it".
- jcutrell 3y ago
  “All one word”
  - sen 3y ago
    For years mine was: “all uppercase no spaces”
    - thenewwazoo 3y ago
      This is brilliant and has my whole family in stitches
- asdz 3y ago
  "You won't get it"
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- em-bee 3y ago
  24446666688888888
- nikeee 3y ago
  "I won't tell you the password"
- cornstalks 3y ago
  Classic Rocket Jump: https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI?si=ndIiB6cFvtrn1JdL https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI?si=ndIiB6cFvtrn1JdL
- em-bee 3y ago
  ismo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZWlxMY6d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZWlxMY6d4
- sshine 3y ago
  Mine used to be "something easy".
- mjlee 3y ago
  Mine is fork handles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw
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timeon 3y ago
> I’m still slightly surprised that no-one got there before me! That sentence would be on the page regardless the owner. So someone actually got there before. But it was you!
superjared 3y ago
Reminds me of Slashdot > 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'". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot
- StableAlkyne 3y ago
  Neat! I always thought it was a reference to the `/.` you might type in Unix
  - readyplayernull 3y ago
    You mean "./"
    - StableAlkyne 3y ago
      I really do mean the root directory! As in, a kinda joke that meant the site was a central place for news, so it would act as a root directory for that
      - littlestymaar 3y ago
        What is the dot for in your `/.`?
        Smaug123 3y ago
        It's what you'd use as an arg to `cp` if you wanted to copy the contents rather than the directory, for example.
        NikkiA 3y ago
        The self-referential directory inode.
- qingcharles 3y ago
o11c 3y ago
HN title is broken; it is presumably supposed to have the important "@" symbol. (the website's original title is boring and meaningless)
MailNerd 3y ago
Shameless ad: For getting your own geeky email address (currently forwarding only) please see https://www.mailbox.my/ https://www.mailbox.my/ (some of them are free)
- em-bee 3y ago
  for that price i can register my own domain
  - MailNerd 3y ago
    To each their own. 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.
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dewey 3y ago
I‘m using notmyhostna.me as my email address and every time I have to provide it in person or on the phone I kinda regret it because people seem to not know much about TLDs.
- michalstanko 3y ago
  In my experience, having an email address ending with any custom domain other than "gmail.com" raises questions and clarifications are necessary quite often.
  - stavros 3y ago
    I keep getting asked about "<yourbusinessname>@mydomain.com" every time. "Oh, you work here too?". People have no idea how email works (and why should they?).
    - wink 3y ago
      How is it different than if you give your address as 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.
      - stavros 3y ago
        Because they can't differentiate between "stavros@yourbusiness.com" and "yourbusiness@stavros.com".
        wink 3y ago
        I know, I didn't ask how to mix it up but why it didn't become basic knowledge by now? :P
        stavros 3y ago
        Because nobody knows why "business1@gmail.com" and "business2@gmail.com" are actually different businesses, but "business1@stavros.com" and "business2@stavros.com" aren't. Who knows if your domain is a mail provider or not, or what a domain is, or how mail servers work, etc etc.
kyle-rb 3y ago
I've been waiting forever and Google still hasn't launched the TLD, but when they do I want to try and snag "put@emailaddress.here"
p4bl0 3y ago
I also have a domain just for the cool look of my personal email address. 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).
- JoshTriplett 3y ago
  For the same reason, I keep trying to get "jo.sh". At one point it was at a domain parker (divido) that offered to auction it, but they never actually did the auction. Now it seems to be registered but not pointing anywhere. I'd love to find who has it and make them an offer for it.
  - p4bl0 3y ago
    Haha, I totally understand that. I kind of have a geeky love for cool domain names like this. I abandoned most of them with the time passing mostly because of unjustified price increase… but I still have a few of them. For examples : - https://hecatom.be/ 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/ https://hachis.ch/ using the Swiss TLD to display an ascii art of a cannabis leaf. - https://marselh.es/ 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanque). - https://libertai.re/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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!
notsahil 3y ago
I have `sahil@e.email`. Don't know if they still accept new users! It's run by https://e.foundation/ https://e.foundation/
milliams 3y ago
I see that they have an lspace.org address. That host doesn't go anywhere, but the much more interesting wiki.lspace.org does - the Discworld and Terry Pratchett Wiki!

Dot Dotat.at

90 points by saclark11 3y ago

tacker2000 3y ago

Servas!

sambazi 3y ago
dere

cushpush 3y ago

"dot at, dot at, dot at"

dsr_ 3y ago
aich tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot org All jokes are contextual and require cultural understanding.
bnewbold 3y ago
not as satisfying as a friend's "<name> at at dot dot see see"

timmorgan 3y ago

My wifi password is "there's a space in it".

jcutrell 3y ago
“All one word”
- sen 3y ago
  For years mine was: “all uppercase no spaces”
  - thenewwazoo 3y ago
    This is brilliant and has my whole family in stitches
asdz 3y ago
"You won't get it"
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
em-bee 3y ago
24446666688888888
nikeee 3y ago
"I won't tell you the password"
cornstalks 3y ago
Classic Rocket Jump: https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI?si=ndIiB6cFvtrn1JdL https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI?si=ndIiB6cFvtrn1JdL
em-bee 3y ago
ismo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZWlxMY6d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdZWlxMY6d4
sshine 3y ago
Mine used to be "something easy".
mjlee 3y ago
Mine is fork handles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw

deleted 3y ago

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timeon 3y ago

> I’m still slightly surprised that no-one got there before me! That sentence would be on the page regardless the owner. So someone actually got there before. But it was you!

superjared 3y ago

Reminds me of Slashdot > 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'". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot

StableAlkyne 3y ago
Neat! I always thought it was a reference to the `/.` you might type in Unix
- readyplayernull 3y ago
  You mean "./"
  - StableAlkyne 3y ago
    I really do mean the root directory! As in, a kinda joke that meant the site was a central place for news, so it would act as a root directory for that
    - littlestymaar 3y ago
      What is the dot for in your `/.`?
      - Smaug123 3y ago
        It's what you'd use as an arg to `cp` if you wanted to copy the contents rather than the directory, for example.
      - NikkiA 3y ago
        The self-referential directory inode.
qingcharles 3y ago

o11c 3y ago

HN title is broken; it is presumably supposed to have the important "@" symbol. (the website's original title is boring and meaningless)

MailNerd 3y ago

Shameless ad: For getting your own geeky email address (currently forwarding only) please see https://www.mailbox.my/ https://www.mailbox.my/ (some of them are free)

em-bee 3y ago
for that price i can register my own domain
- MailNerd 3y ago
  To each their own. 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.

deleted 3y ago

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dewey 3y ago

I‘m using notmyhostna.me as my email address and every time I have to provide it in person or on the phone I kinda regret it because people seem to not know much about TLDs.

michalstanko 3y ago
In my experience, having an email address ending with any custom domain other than "gmail.com" raises questions and clarifications are necessary quite often.
- stavros 3y ago
  I keep getting asked about "<yourbusinessname>@mydomain.com" every time. "Oh, you work here too?". People have no idea how email works (and why should they?).
  - wink 3y ago
    How is it different than if you give your address as 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.
    - stavros 3y ago
      Because they can't differentiate between "stavros@yourbusiness.com" and "yourbusiness@stavros.com".
      - wink 3y ago
        I know, I didn't ask how to mix it up but why it didn't become basic knowledge by now? :P
        stavros 3y ago
        Because nobody knows why "business1@gmail.com" and "business2@gmail.com" are actually different businesses, but "business1@stavros.com" and "business2@stavros.com" aren't. Who knows if your domain is a mail provider or not, or what a domain is, or how mail servers work, etc etc.

kyle-rb 3y ago

I've been waiting forever and Google still hasn't launched the TLD, but when they do I want to try and snag "put@emailaddress.here"

p4bl0 3y ago

I also have a domain just for the cool look of my personal email address. 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).

JoshTriplett 3y ago
For the same reason, I keep trying to get "jo.sh". At one point it was at a domain parker (divido) that offered to auction it, but they never actually did the auction. Now it seems to be registered but not pointing anywhere. I'd love to find who has it and make them an offer for it.
- p4bl0 3y ago
  Haha, I totally understand that. I kind of have a geeky love for cool domain names like this. I abandoned most of them with the time passing mostly because of unjustified price increase… but I still have a few of them. For examples : - https://hecatom.be/ 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/ https://hachis.ch/ using the Swiss TLD to display an ascii art of a cannabis leaf. - https://marselh.es/ 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanque). - https://libertai.re/ 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/ 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/ 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/ 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!

notsahil 3y ago

I have `sahil@e.email`. Don't know if they still accept new users! It's run by https://e.foundation/ https://e.foundation/

milliams 3y ago

I see that they have an lspace.org address. That host doesn't go anywhere, but the much more interesting wiki.lspace.org does - the Discworld and Terry Pratchett Wiki!