I have been using the internet actively for a while now. I
registered my first domain sandogg.com (no longer registered) a few
years ago for free through some promotion. I didn't follow the ancient
trend of registering yourname.com because I thought it was cheesy. Not
that sandogg.com is less cheesy (it was one of my nicknames). Shortly afterwards I registered selectiveapathy.com which has some meaning for me. Recently
I have been watching my family in Mauritius embracing the internet and
mostly the likes of Facebook, Windows Live Messenger etc. They
all tried to obtain personalised email addresses with their names @
provider.com which proved difficult as hotmail/windows live was the
preferred choice and as they are late in the 'game' they had to be
inventive. Even
more recently (a couple of days ago, May 2009), I had some thoughts of
creating a website about the family such as an ancestry/lineage/family
site. Of course it would not be appropriate without a domain. But would anybody really use such a site? It
would require a lot of work and would most likely be looked at once for
the novelty (in Mauritius) and forgotten about. (However I may
undertake this in the future.) But
what about using the domain to provide subdomains and personal email
addresses with redirects to personal sites and current mailboxes? I
really liked this idea and went for it straight away. Also seeing the family's
next step may be the creation of personal sites, and they may not be able
to afford a domain of their own. Obviously
not everybody in the family has the name bappoo...and the only reason
bappoo is being used is because it is my surname, which I do not
anticipate to change and this may sound selfish. I
am aware that it is traditional for women to change their surnames to
their husband's one when they are married (for my sisters/female
cousins), but I am sorry, maybe you can keep your bappoo surname...not
that anybody who is called or was once called bappoo, and would like to
use this site, would be denied it. Ok I am aware this may sound a bit discriminatory but I have good intentions with this project... |
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