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macgui.com is almost 6 years old!
20 Jul 2010 6:45 pm
Phewf! I just did one of those egotistical "what is your domain name worth" things, where a computer tries to do some Google searches to estimate how valuable your domain name might be.
One of the techniques it uses is age of the domain name. It reported that macgui.com is 5 years, 11 months, and 29 days old! I had almost forgotten that August 20th is the birthday of macgui.com. It's exactly 30 days from now.
Of course, Mac GUI is older than that. Mac GUI started in February of 2004 at the URL of http://macgui.bravehost.com/ It was only when the site started to "take off," so to speak, that I decided it was worth the investment of $10 into a domain name from Yahoo. When I first registered it, I was still on a free web hosting plan, so typing macgui.com would just redirect you to the full URL mentioned previously. It wasn't until around the time of macgui.net that I started to pay for Mac GUI's web hosting.
Looking back, choosing Yahoo as the registrar was likely one of the best decisions I've ever made for this site. Later in 2005, I also registered macgui.net with Yahoo. I've never had a single problem with Yahoo since then.
Today, sometimes I still can't believe that no one had thought of the 6-letter domain. It's so simple and obvious. Clearly, Mac GUI wasn't the only Mac customization site around at the time, and still isn't today. Sometimes, you just get lucky, I guess.
The domain registration just renewed two days ago, so we're good for another year. And you can be darn sure we will still be around then. 
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JauntyMellifluous
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lol @ dogcow land haha. That's a funny name for a blog.
I've always wondered, how did you come up with this name?
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Dog Cow
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Posted: 03 Aug 2010 1:37 pm Subject: |
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 I didn't!
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WatchSmart
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Posted: 18 Aug 2010 5:09 am Subject: |
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For some reason, my bookmark of this site is to the .net domain. Odd, that.
I've often thought about pre-paying for ten years of domain registration... just in case I die. But what about the hosting? Oh, I need to write a will.
Anyhow, congratulations on six+ years of good times.
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Dog Cow
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Posted: 18 Aug 2010 2:18 pm Subject: |
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Thanks! 
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