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twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2009.07.13

Once upon a time, when the 'net was young and no-one but techies fiddled about with domain registration, there was but one Internet registrar that everyone had to deal with. They had some clumsy email-based template system that made registering and managing Internet domains a chore.

I guess all of today's Internet domain registrars are paying homage to those bad ol' days. Because all of the modern domain management sites I've used are without exception:

1) confusing and unnecessarily complex

2) slow

3) heavy on the emails

The ghost of networksolutions.com!

rand()m quote

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.

—Douglas Adams