I’ve learnt a lesson: if you don’t administrate something, don’t trust it can work.
By the way, the side lesson is: if you administrate something, you can be sure it won’t work. But the point is, at least you can fix it.
So, it happened that acaro.org went awry. I mean, you can’t even resolve it. So, first thing: don’t trust a site whose blog isn’t alive since more than a year.
I had to choose a new domain. I’m really satisfied with afraid.org service in general, so I chose to keep with them. But, which one to choose? I wanted a significative name, not lamer (that is, no numbers and strange TLD), which was short and could be combined with my third level domain. I started looking at afraid.org registry, but reaching the fourth page I thought that was better to automatize the operation.
First, pardon me afraid.org, some wget bash to get all the pages:
$ for i in `seq 1 365` ; do wget "http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/?page=$i&sort=5&q=" ; done
And then, a short python program which encodes some of the conditions:
- it’s marked as public
- no strange TLD
- no lamer numbers
- sort by domain length
which is here: find suitable domains script.
So, I ended up with a long list to look for. Apart from the first three- or four-letters domain (which remembered me of the output of pwgen), I found something interesting. Here are some of the finalists:
- tinyint.info
- nullish.org
- darkcup.net
- foschia.info
Since acaro.org had an italian word inside, I decided for foschia.info (foschia is mist, haze). Since I frequently feel my head in a thick fog, I decided: thick.foschia.info.
Welcome!
PS: blog on foschia.info had its latest post one month ago, with an average of one post a month. Pheew!
Posted by mattia as server at 2:36 PM CEST
