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  1. Ego vs. Strategie: Wie ich 1996 durch einen Zufall das Megga Zuppa Duppa Network gründete.

    Es begab sich im Jahr 1996...

    In meiner damaligen „Netz-Bubble“ trat jemand sehr arrogant und aufschneiderisch auf. Er posaunte überall herum, dass er als Firma das „Medien Zentrum Dortmund“ (oder so ähnlich) gründen würde. Stolz verkündete er auch direkt die passende Domain: mzd.net.

    Wieder zu Hause am Rechner siegte die Neugier. Ich wollte sehen, was er da schon aufgebaut hatte. Die Überraschung: Unter www.mzd.net war absolut nichts erreichbar. Ein kurzer Check der Whois-Daten bestätigte: Die Domain war noch gar nicht registriert!

    In einer Mischung aus Spaß und um ihm einen kleinen Denkzettel zu verpassen, gründete ich kurzerhand das „Megga Zuppa Duppa Network“ und registrierte mzd.net. Damals durften .net-Domains ja offiziell nur von Firmen und Organisationen aus dem Netzwerkbereich registriert werden.

    Ich wollte ihm zeigen, dass man sich Namen sichert, bevor man groß damit prahlt. Gegen ein oder zwei Bier als „Lehrgeld“ hätte ich ihm die Domain sofort übertragen. Ich wollte ihm ja nicht schaden, nur sein Ego ein wenig erden.

    Doch es kam anders. Statt Einsicht gab es Ego-Explosionen und absurde Hacker-Vorwürfe. Tja, Kommunikation ist eben alles.

    Und wie ich jetzt beim „digitalen Aufräumen“ festgestellt habe: Ich besitze die mzd.net inzwischen seit fast 30 Jahren.

    Jetzt stehe ich vor der Wahl und brauche den Rat der Fediverse-Schwarmintelligenz:

    1. Soll ich das legendäre Megga Zuppa Duppa Network endlich mit Leben füllen und auferstehen lassen?
    2. Oder gibt es seriöse Domainbroker, die ihr empfehlen könnt, um dieses Stück Internetgeschichte in gute Hände zu verkaufen?

    Ich bin gespannt auf eure Gedanken und Tipps!

    #InternetHistory #WebHistory #VintageWeb #DomainNames #Storytelling #Nostalgie #1990s #Netzgeschichte #MZD #DomainHandel #Fediverse #TechStories #AskFedi

  2. .internal - You know what it is, don’t you? If you don’t… You’ve probably have missed this, and your system(s) are likely to be misconfigured, unless everything is using public DNS.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal

    I remember when I had to do such configs, it was hard and there was no proper solution available. Back then I ended up using .local, which just causes long extra delays and timeouts and it is wrong.

    #tld #internal #dns #domainnames #sysadmin

  3. Apparently Lidl owns the `.lidl` TLD, and this (in part) gets their emails flagged as spam by my server.

    These brand TLDs were a REALLY DUMB idea by ICANN. Why do we need TLDs per company? And do people actually trust them?

    And then there's apparently another round coming 😐

    #DomainNames #Brands #ICANN #BadIdea

  4. How to Protect Against Phishy Top-level Domains, Part 2

    In a previous article, we explained that risk-averse organizations routinely adopt TLD blocking as a defense against cyber-attacks.

    We EMPHASIZED why this is a last resort measure and offered examples of TLDs that were persistently associated with major phishing and scam attacks in CY2025. We also describe how to make an informed TLD blocking decision.

    In our earlier post, we explained how organizations or individuals could use Cisco’s OpenDNS service to adopt TLD blocking. Today, we’ll be taking a look at how NextDNS could be used to block TLDs.

    interisle.substack.com/p/how-t

    #phishing #cybercrime #blocklisting #tld #domainnames #dnsabuse

  5. Web Informant: Moving day. “Back in 1993, I took the radical (at the time) step of requesting a new domain, strom.com. I say request because back then there wasn’t any actual ‘purchase’ – the internet was still relatively new to the general public, and all it took to become master of your domain was a simple email request, which was satisfied within minutes. Let us pause to remember and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/09/web-informant-moving-day/
  6. RE: mastodon.social/@domainbot/116

    Es könnte sein, dass ich heute meinen ersten Mastodon-Bot aktiviert habe. Dieser wird jetzt einmal täglich eine neu erkannte Domain aus der .ch-Zone announcen.

    Details zum Projekt: domainbot.ch/about

    #domainnames #ch #fun #mastodon #bot #hobby

  7. 🚨 .FM DROPS ARE LIVE 🚨 Don’t miss it → Get.fm/auction

    The best names don’t get registered… They get sniped in auctions. Premium .FM domains just expired — now up for grabs via Namecheap

    If you’re building:
    🎧 Podcasts
    🤖 AI voice agents
    📡 Streaming platforms

    This is where brands are born⚡ One name = your entire signal.

    #dotFM #DomainNames #AIAudio #Startups #Branding #Auction

  8. AV Club: U.S. government registers “aliens.gov” domain, which is pretty good as distractions go. “Shout-out today to whichever (presumably well-stocked) portion of the Trump administration works to distract the American public from the shit all their coworkers get up to on a daily basis, because they’ve worked up a doozy this week: Officially registering—per 404 Media, and sites that track […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/19/av-club-u-s-government-registers-aliens-gov-domain-which-is-pretty-good-as-distractions-go/
  9. TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Loses .LI Domain As Legal Pressure Mounts. “Anna’s Archive lost its .li domain a few hours ago, likely due to legal pressure. The shadow library’s domain name was outright deleted instead of suspended. Whether the domain registrar or registry is responsible is unknown, but the latter seems more plausible. Anna’s Archive was briefly down to one remaining domain […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/03/torrentfreak-annas-archive-loses-li-domain-as-legal-pressure-mounts/
  10. Describe your idea. 🤔✍️ We’ll find your frequency. 🎙️

    🤖Our Intelligent .FM Domain Search uses AI to match your concept with the perfect .FM name. Podcasts. Voice agents. Streaming. Audio startups.

    Smart domains for a signal-driven world. 🔎 dot.fm/AISearch🤔✍️

    #dotFM #AIAudio #DomainNames #Branding #OpenAI #DomainsForSale

  11. Gizmodo: Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in ‘Largest Domain Purchase in History’. “The founder of Crypto.com is tackling AI next, and he spared no expense. Crypto.com co-founder and CEO Kris Marszalek has launched a new AI agent platform under the brand AI.com, a domain he reportedly purchased for $70 million.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/11/gizmodo-crypto-com-founder-buys-ai-com-in-largest-domain-purchase-in-history/
  12. If you’re picking name/label syntax for a technical system, you could do worse than the Kubernetes conventions: conservative, but based on domain names and URLs so likely safe in most contexts

    kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/ov

    #Kubernetes #naming #DomainNames

  13. It's Cool, Hip & Today! 😀🚀 Take your Brand to the Next Level w/ #dotFM 🎙️👦 1) Come Up w/ a Cool Idea 🤔 2) Get a Great Name 🤙 3) Succeed! 🥳 Start a Podcast w/ a .FM Domain from Cloudflare --> get.fm/cloudflare

    #Podcast #Podcasting #Podcasters #Domains #domainnames #DomainNameForSale #domain #domainsforsale #TLD #gTLD #ccTLD #innovation #NewTLDs #Radio #Podcast #Podcasters #FMradio #OnlineRadio #Podcasting

  14. It's Cool, Hip & Today 😀🚀 Take your Brand to the Next Level w/ #dotFM 🎙️👦 1) Come Up w/ a Cool Idea 🤔 2) Get a Great Name 🤙 3) Succeed! 🥳 Start A Podcast w/ a .FM Domain or #EmojiDomain at Gandi --> get.fm/gandi

    #Podcast #Podcasting #Podcasters #TLDs #nTLDS #ccTLDs #Web2 #domain #domainsforsale #Podcasting #Podcasters #Podcast #DomainNames #digitalmarketing #EmojiDomains #Emoji

  15. New Year. New Voice. 🎙️ 🎇 "Turn Up The Vol" 🔊🗣️ 🚀 Introducing OpenAI.fm — The next evolution of AI Audio. Powered by OpenAI’s new TTS 4.0 models, OpenAI.fm turns text into emotionally rich, lifelike sound.\

    🎧 Explore more at Get.fm/AIAudio

    #AIAudio #dotFM #VoiceAgents #OpenAI #BrandVoice #AIInnovation #Domains #DomainNames #Namscon #AIDomain

  16. New Year. New Voice. 🎙️ 🎇 "Turn Up The Vol" 🔊🗣️ 🚀 Introducing OpenAI.fm — The next evolution of AI Audio. Powered by OpenAI’s new TTS 4.0 models, OpenAI.fm turns text into emotionally rich, lifelike sound.\

    🎧 Explore more at Get.fm/AIAudio

    #AIAudio #dotFM #VoiceAgents #OpenAI #BrandVoice #AIInnovation #Domains #DomainNames #Namscon #AIDomain

  17. New Year. New Voice. 🎙️ 🎇 "Turn Up The Vol" 🔊🗣️ 🚀 Introducing OpenAI.fm — The next evolution of AI Audio. Powered by OpenAI’s new TTS 4.0 models, OpenAI.fm turns text into emotionally rich, lifelike sound.\

    🎧 Explore more at Get.fm/AIAudio

    #AIAudio #dotFM #VoiceAgents #OpenAI #BrandVoice #AIInnovation #Domains #DomainNames #Namscon #AIDomain

  18. New Year. New Voice. 🎙️ 🎇 "Turn Up The Vol" 🔊🗣️ 🚀 Introducing OpenAI.fm — The next evolution of AI Audio. Powered by OpenAI’s new TTS 4.0 models, OpenAI.fm turns text into emotionally rich, lifelike sound.\

    🎧 Explore more at Get.fm/AIAudio

    #AIAudio #dotFM #VoiceAgents #OpenAI #BrandVoice #AIInnovation #Domains #DomainNames #Namscon #AIDomain

  19. New Year. New Voice. 🎙️ 🎇 "Turn Up The Vol" 🔊🗣️ 🚀 Introducing OpenAI.fm — The next evolution of AI Audio. Powered by OpenAI’s new TTS 4.0 models, OpenAI.fm turns text into emotionally rich, lifelike sound.\

    🎧 Explore more at Get.fm/AIAudio

    #AIAudio #dotFM #VoiceAgents #OpenAI #BrandVoice #AIInnovation #Domains #DomainNames #Namscon #AIDomain

  20. Did you hear about DotMeow? It's a domain purr-fectly serious about its mission 🐾, or maybe it's just another cat-tastrophe in an endless litterbox of internet fluff. 😹 Just what the world needed, right? Yet another domain for cat memes. 🙄
    dotmeow.org #DotMeow #CatMemes #InternetFluff #DomainNames #CatLovers #HackerNews #ngated

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    #domainnames #hostgator #talkbitz

  22. Yo! 🔥 Now’s the *prime* time to be an #Influencer, fam! 🎤💃 Boost that online vibe with #dotFM 🎙️👊 Got a wild idea? 🤯 Snag a dope name! ✌️ Win big! 🤑 Launch that #Podcast or #AIAudio with a slick domain 🕶️ *ON SALE* 🏷️ 30% off @Namecheap --> get.fm/namecheap 🎉

    #Podcasting #DomainGoals #NamecheapVibes
    #Podcast #Podcasting #Podcasters #domain #Domains #domainname #domainx #domainsforsale #domainnames #Namecheap #OpenAI #Namescon