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Monday, June 25, 2007

Domain names - going, going...!

The year is somewhere around 3007, and the Galaxy is poised on the brink of war. This will be the conflict to end all conflicts, making the oil, water and Moon wars of the mid-third millennium look like mere skirmishes in comparison.

This is the battle for the Last remaining Domain Name. Slowly but inexorably, for the last thousand years, the domain-squatters, spammers and Google subdivisions have been buying up all the possible combinations of the 256 allowed characters. All permutations in languages known and unknown have long been spoken for and for the last 500 years the race has been on to lay claim to zxzxzxzzxzzzxzxxxzxzxzxxzxzxzxzxzxzxxxzzxxxzzzxxxzzxxzzxxzxzzzxxz.com, zxzxzxzzxzzzxzxxxzxzxzxxzxzxzxzxzxzxxxzzxxxzzzxxxzzxxzzxxzxzzzxxx.com and other still relatively desirable combinations.

But the end has finally been reached - battle lines have been drawn across the galaxy laying the ground for a Final Battle that will determine the owner of the Last Remaining Domain Name:

lkhsdfsdfgjhsfdlgjhsdfgluysrethsklf
dhgskldfgskldfgliuyliserhthsdlfgsui
odyfglkheskletlskejhrtlekhfddfhlkd
hgflkhsdlgfsdfgyuewtmnbzxvciopa
skjsmnbdmnbdgskldgfyullsenbgsjd
bfgs,mdbgmshfdgskdhgfhsdljhsfdgl
dfgiuwqrewpoewkretmnxmncvmbx
vcaljsnrgfxnvcxlvcsljhrlsopwkx.com

Poo-poohed by most a mere century ago as being "too hard to remember", this is now the most desirable piece of cyber-real-estate of all time, and many will die before the final victor lays claim to it.

Let battle commence!!

(suddenly, future-phobia.blogspot.com doesn't seem half such a bad choice, most of it was decided for me, for a start!)

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The way things are going I think we'll run out of domain names way before 3007! Good premise for a movie though :)