A few nights ago, when I decided to start this log, I was determined to find a domain that had the word “bootstrap” in its URL. After all, that’s what I’m writing about. So I tried all of these:
- bootstrap.com
- bootstrapper.com
- bootstrapped.com
- bootstrappr.com
- bootstrappd.com
- bootstrapr.com
- etc., etc.
Those are all taken. I’m sure you’ve already guess this, but they’re all parked, except for bootstrapper.com, which is owned by Sun Microsystems. The internet really needs some form of squatter’s laws to rid the world of all these unused domains. I admit, I’m guilty of it, too, but I actually plan on using all of my domains eventually, not just sell them.
After some frustration, I was about to head into weird TLD-land, when I noticed that no one owned bootstrapper.net. WTF? Is dot-net really that crappy? It ranks well with decent SEO. Someone already owned bootstrapper.org, so I’m assuming at this point that .net is the crappiest. Well, it’s my crap, now.
