Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Third-Level Domain Names

I missed my opportunity to register benmoore.org back when domain name registration was expensive (we had Network Solutions' monopoly to thank for that). Now that they are cheap (easily less than $10 per year), everybody ought to have their own.

Anyway, back to the story. When the .biz top-level domain (TLD) became available, I registered benmoore.biz. I've never really put up a web site by that name but rather used it to create a set of third-level domains (or hostnames). I use these as "shortcuts" either for my own use or to share with others. I use Active-Domain's free capabilities to do this.

Here's a list of my current third-level domain names and what they point to.

www.benmoore.biz - Points to my personal page on desotonet.com
allphotos.benmoore.biz - Points to my photos on photoaccess.com
bellsouth.benmoore.biz - Points to my personal page on bellsouth.net (that's an old picture!)
blog.benmoore.biz - Points to this my blog on blogspot.com
blogroll.benmoore.biz - Points to my blogroll on bloglines.com
favorites.benmoore.biz - Points to my favorites as maintained by FavoriteSync
lawnmower.benmoore.biz - Points to a Flash game about the movie "Drowning Mona"
photos.benmoore.biz - Points to my photos on desotonet.com (created with Picasa)
radar.benmoore.biz - Points to the live weather RADAR from Channel 3 in Memphis
speedcheck.benmoore.biz - Points to optonline.net's speed testing site
speedometer.benmoore.biz - Points to mcafee.com's speed testing site
toolz.benmoore.biz - Points to my system administrator tools on desotonet.com

Enjoy!

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