dns.buetow.org shows a list of all free available short .de domains (up to 3 characters). it's updating automatically every 3 days.
it's driven by a perl script of mine using a sqlite database as its backend.
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The following domain name(s) will expire in 5 DAYS:
Domain Name, Expiry Date
fype.org, 2008-12-03
Soon, all my domains except of buetow.org and pb-labs.com have been expired :D
fype.org's new address is fype.buetow.org. Subdomains ftw :)
Today I received the following E-Mail:
The following domain name(s) will expire in 5 DAYS:
Domain Name, Expiry Date
butow.org, 2008-11-30
--snap--
No more need for butow.org though. buetow.org is enough :)
I've mentioned telnic earlier and now it is possible to register a free *.vip.tel subdomain. Here is my free 3rd level domain: buetow.vip.tel. If I'll buy a buetow.tel some day, I don't know yet.
Today I received the following E-Mail:
The following domain name(s) will expire in 5 DAYS:
Domain Name, Expiry Date
pblabs.net, 2008-10-30
--snap--
As mentioned earlier, I am now using pb-labs.com instead of pblabs.net. Good bye .net.
I just ordered my new domain name pb-labs.com. This domain is for my commercial things. The P. B. Labs website is in german only atm, but this may change in the future :) It is replacing my old domains pblabs.de/pblabs.net/labs.buetow.org. A .com just fits best for commercial things!
Telnic is launching its .tel top level domain. Companies can register their own .tel domain this december. Someday next year everybody may register such a domain for private usage. Telnic also offers to edit the DNS NAPTR Resource Records. Additional to the NAPTR, everybody may access the data through a web interface. On www.telnic.tel is a sample page, how it'll look like.
In my opinion there is no need for a .tel domain. Why not just use an existing domain, e.g. buetow.org instead of buetow.tel, and update the DNS server with the NAPTR records? If someone tries to access the data via web, they sould go to the imprint of the specific site! buetow.tel would be yet another address to use. So it's doing the opposite it should do!
I've added a new TLD zone .bue to my home router's DNS server (which runs OpenBSD on an old IBM ThinkPad T20) and forwarded all its subdomains to my webserver (the server, which also runs this blog):
* IN CNAME host.0.buetow.org.
And I've added the following mod_rewrite rule to the Apache of my webserver host.0.buetow.org:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*?)\.bue$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://%1.buetow.org/ [L]
This rule forwards all *.bue hosts to its *.buetow.org counterparts! E.g. science.bue will become science.buetow.org! (or you may use sc.bue, which will become sc.buetow.org, which will become science.buetow.org).
This way, I can reach all my sites faster, without bookmarking anything etc. If you want to take advantage of it, you need to edit the DNS server you use or, if you are using an *NIX operating system, you can add the desired hostnames to your /etc/hosts file! The entry for sc.bue and science.bue and screens.bue would look like this then:
85.214.66.253 sc.bue science.bue screens.bue
Well, If you have an account on my server (via labs.buetow.org aka labs.bue), you can request such a pseudo TLD for free :)
I've always been a fan of the Top Level Domains (TLDs). My favourite TLD is, of course, .org. However, if we believe whats on Slashdot, we soon could register our own TLDs like .buetow or so ;-) Everything will be a mess in the internet namespace, but it will be cool as well!
