Thu, 31 Jul 2025

Personal Tech History

25-ish years ago, I read someone I believed to not be crazy (Tim Bray, or Cory Doctorow, I think) extol the virtues of “owning” a piece of the Internet. Having returned from Costa Rica not too many years before then, I liked “kayakero” (some of my raft company coworkers had taken to calling me kayakero mystico due to my squirt boat safety boating — thank you Ken for hauling the boats, er surfboards, down). And I hoped to homestead on the Internet as kayakero.org. But that was not available at the time.

As Register.com merged with (was subsumed by) Network Solutions I went to make sure I still had access to the configuration items I need. And NetSol happily pointed out that kayakero.org was now available. So I picked that up.

I don’t expect I’ll shift things over and I’m not sure what I’ll do with that domain. But a small part of me feels like my patience paid off. Of course when the renewal comes due, at higher than the initial offer price, I may let that domain go back into the pool for someone else to pick up.

And those 25-ish years have blunted my prior interactions with NetSol — I vaguely remember not wanting to use them as a registrar to start with. But I don’t recall specifically why anymore. Optimistically speaking, I won’t be reminded now that I’m their customer.

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