I was thinking about the site itself and realized that I might as well register www.teach42.com It will just make a little easier for people to get to, and it really doesn’t cost much at all. Why am I bothering at all? My father bought dembo.com a few years ago. He didn’t do anything at all with it (mind you, he told me I could do whatever I wanted with it and I didn’t do anything with it either), and after a few years decided not to waste any more money on it. As soon as he let it go, a cybersquattersnatched it up. We could buy it back of course, and it will just cost a few thousand. It’s entirely possible that the web will evolve again, and URL’s will become obsolete, but for now domain names are like real estate. Who doesn’t remember a piece of property that they could have bought for pennies a few decades ago? Domain names are just like that. We could have paid about $100 and kept dembo.com for 10 years. Now if we want it back, we’d have to shell out 10 times that. That’s why I registered dembo.org originally. I didn’t even plan to use it initially, but I thought to myself, “What if my unborn children want to create a web page for their high school philosophy project? Shouldn’t they be able to post it on dembo.org?” $8 a year from GoDaddy, that’s it. If you haven’t checked your own family name yet, I’d check it and snatch it up if it isn’t taken yet. It’ll cost next to nothing to do, but if someone else snatches it up you’ll pay out the nose to get it back.

Moral of the story, you can now reach the site from www.teach42.com!

• What would you pay for your name?
• Choose your own email through AOL
• What’s in a domain name?
• Moving right along
• Hostile takeover of Teach42?

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