Comments on: Ambigram Domains http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:21:09 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: xozzox http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-4648 xozzox Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:45:12 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-4648 unfortunately, the German domain name registry does not allow for two letter domains (like many other registrars). So the reason why ap.de is not taken its becaus it can't be registered... I chose xozzox as the primary domain name for my sites xozzox.com and xozzox.de because of its symmetry properties (there aren't too many possibilities left for both the .com and .de top level domains). Only later I realized that I could expand this to true ambigrammatic (and palindromic) domains. unfortunately, the German domain name registry does not allow for two letter domains (like many other registrars). So the reason why ap.de is not taken its becaus it can’t be registered…
I chose xozzox as the primary domain name for my sites xozzox.com and xozzox.de because of its symmetry properties (there aren’t too many possibilities left for both the .com and .de top level domains). Only later I realized that I could expand this to true ambigrammatic (and palindromic) domains.

]]> By: Erik R. http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-4624 Erik R. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:48:10 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-4624 Rather unbelievably, ap.de is available! It wouldn't be a bad place for some enterprising German to host <em>yet another</em> url shortening service. Rather unbelievably, ap.de is available!

It wouldn’t be a bad place for some enterprising German to host yet another url shortening service.

]]> By: Mark http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-4623 Mark Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:44:39 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-4623 Xozzox, Wouldn't it have been easier to skip the subdomain completely and just get: ap.de I also don't see a web site at that domain (but I'm too lazy to do a whois to see if its available) Fully formed, it would be: http://ap.de//:dtty Seems a lot simpler than adding a long middle word. Xozzox,

Wouldn’t it have been easier to skip the subdomain completely and just get:

ap.de

I also don’t see a web site at that domain (but I’m too lazy to do a whois to see if its available)

Fully formed, it would be:

http://ap.de//:dtty

Seems a lot simpler than adding a long middle word.

]]> By: xozzox http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-4616 xozzox Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:51:03 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-4616 I found one other ambigrammatic URL: http://graner.net/nicolas/selcoiu/tau.jauejb//:dtty Nicolas Graner thought about this in 2001 and also created a palindromic URL (as I have also with ed.xozzox.de) I found one other ambigrammatic URL:
http://graner.net/nicolas/selcoiu/tau.jauejb//:dtty

Nicolas Graner thought about this in 2001 and also created a palindromic URL (as I have also with ed.xozzox.de)

]]> By: Erik R. http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-4610 Erik R. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:40:14 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-4610 Ha! The :dtty on the end is a nice touch. Ha! The :dtty on the end is a nice touch.

]]> By: xozzox http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-4607 xozzox Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:35:39 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-4607 why did no one think of .de as root domain??? Luckily I live in Germany, so this was obvious for me. So now there exists ap.xozzox.de as an ambigram domain, and also a fully qualified URL: http://ap.xozzox.de//:dtty I did not find any reference to another actually implemented ambigram domain. Does anyone here (if someone is still around...) know of any? why did no one think of .de as root domain??? Luckily I live in Germany, so this was obvious for me. So now there exists
ap.xozzox.de
as an ambigram domain, and also a fully qualified URL:
http://ap.xozzox.de//:dtty
I did not find any reference to another actually implemented ambigram domain. Does anyone here (if someone is still around…) know of any?

]]> By: Erik R. http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-2862 Erik R. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:58:40 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-2862 Very good, Ole! I was too lazy to look it up and the only double-G place name that came to mind was the Galapagos Islands. You could almost mock Google with something like 66.oogl6oo.gg Very good, Ole! I was too lazy to look it up and the only double-G place name that came to mind was the Galapagos Islands.

You could almost mock Google with something like 66.oogl6oo.gg

]]> By: Ole http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-2861 Ole Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:07 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-2861 .gg belongs to Guernsey - see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gg" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gg</a> .gg belongs to Guernsey – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gg

]]> By: Erik R. http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-2859 Erik R. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:18:48 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-2859 But .gg isn't a root domain, is it? That's the trick: finding a rotatable root domain. But .gg isn’t a root domain, is it? That’s the trick: finding a rotatable root domain.

]]> By: neil http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2008/07/25/ambigram-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-2858 neil Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:15:09 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=688#comment-2858 How about 66.gg How about 66.gg

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