Category Archives: World Wide Web

My second ATLAS membership

World Wide Web

Since this week I am member of two ATLAS experiments … besides being member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN since 2005, I now joined the ATLAS network of RIPE. While in the former one we try to answer all sorts of questions related to the fundamental physics of the world around us, from the creation and evolution of the universe to the reason(s) for  massive particles; the latter one has the slightly less ambitious goal to create a real time map of the internet infrastructure by deploying probes all around the world.

My first domain

Computers and IT, World Wide Web

This month the cancellation of my very first domain finally took place … samedia.de, home for my small business / self-employment adventure for over ten years. After I decided to close the business down when moving to Denmark, I also made the decision that I could save a few bucks by ending the contract for the domain. And now it’s finally done!

Funny / strange thing is … it was immediately bought by an estonian domain broker … for whatever reason?!
But apparently the name seems to be interesting for others …

That made me check a few other possibilities …

  • .asia – free
  • .at – free
  • .be – free
  • .biz – free
  • .cc – well it’s in Chinese!?
  • .ch – free
  • .com – reserved, but dead
  • .co.uk – some domain broker
  • .de – the mentioned estonian domain broker
  • .es – free
  • .eu – some Greek web service thingy
  • .info – webpage of some church
  • .me – free
  • .me.uk – free
  • .mobi – some domain broker
  • .net – same as eu
  • .nl – reserved, but dead
  • .org – forward to some (strange) salvation army page
  • .org.uk – free
  • .tv – some video production site
I guess that could go on forever, but I still do not see the brokering point …

Friends on wheels

World Wide Web

Just because I like plots, I recently made one showing the daily stats of my two friends Anne and Carsten, who are cycling around in Europe and South America these and the following 40something weeks …

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All about their adventure can be found here … http://www.virvelvind.de