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The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago…

24 January 2023 by Frank Meeuwsen

The Best Time to Own a Domain Was 20 Years Ago; The Second Best Time Is Today (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

Mastodon has a verification system built on the humble rel=me which gained coverage on The Markup (found via adactio links). It allows you to verify that your Mastodon profile controls a particular domain (e.g. I have verified jim-nielsen.com, something nobody else in the world can claim to do witho…

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In an internet connected world, domains are a currency of value. Do you want to own your value, or let someone else own it?

Filed Under: indieweb Tagged With: domain, personal-web

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  1. Hans van Zijst says

    24 January 2023 at 10:24 pm

    Have owned my own domains for ages.

  2. Roel Willems says

    24 January 2023 at 10:36 pm

    @frank couldn’t agree more! Big platforms can (or often will, as history shows us) fail. Having your own domain is the way to keep ownership of your online presence. Even if you don’t have any interest in blogging (or running a Mastodon instance 😉) having your own domain name for email is worth the expense.

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