Business Birthdays

“If you die, I’m going to kill you.”

I was recovering from a near-death experience, ensconced in a tiny trailer in a big trailer park in old South Austin. The price of a domain name was expensive, so I could only do one URL, and astrofish.net won the ring toss.

As close as I could get with a portmanteau of fishing guide to the stars working in wordplay with the whole “fish net” image.

I used to swing my voluptuous hips when I said “fish net.”

Domain names, pre-Y2K needed to be catchy and demonstrative of the content housed. I would guess this is now less about housing data and more about warehousing data.

Whois astrofish.net

Domain Name: ASTROFISH.NET
Creation Date: 1998-08-12T04:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2028-08-11T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Register4Less, Inc.
Registrant Name: Kramer Wetzel
Registrant Organization: astrofish.net
Registrant Street: 5802 Bob Bullock C1 Unit 328C-195
Registrant City: Laredo
Registrant State/Province: Texas
Registrant Postal Code: 78041-8813
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.5143941150
Registrant Email: admin@privacyadvocate.org
Registry Admin ID: Not Available From Registry
Admin Name: Kramer Wetzel
Admin Organization: astrofish.net

URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/

Business Birthdays

But the Business Birthdays are a quick celebration of the official name’s point of inception. What it is, what it’s become, and where it might go. I’m oddly invested in the name. A little quirky, at best, and the idea is a super-simple design, one I’ve never been quite able to achieve. I can see it, but then, I get to adding buttons, bells, and whistles — oftentimes, unnecessary.

“It amuses me.”

Doubt that works.

24 years at one digital address with regular, weekly material. Not always good material, but always on some kind of a weekly schedule.

In the words of individuals born after the URL?

“It is what it is.”

Previous notation. Earlier who is.