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Over dinner with Nishka, we were trying to deploy a website. The challenge was: How can we deploy this website, just on mobile, without getting up from the dinner table? STEP 1: Hosting. On my phone, I dictated to ChatGPT (whose transcription is excellent), copy-pasted that to Gemini (which is faster): I want to publish specifically a static HTML web page on my own domain. I want the easiest way that I can host it, preferably just by copy-pasting from my mobile without needing to muck around with Git and the likes of it. What are the most robust, reliable hosting providers that I could use? I can sort out the domain name myself as long as they support an option to map a custom domain name to them. Ideally, I am looking for something that is free, preferably free forever. ...

5 different stories about how Google was named Google. This is mentioned as the probably correct version: “Lucas Pereira: ‘You idiots, you spelled [Googol] wrong!’ But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell ‘Googol’ ‘Google’, so it worked out OK in the end.” Comments OverSkies 11 Dec 2008 8:29 am: Google’s founder’s son’s first words were : google.That is why they named it google

Domain name analysis. All two-letter and three-letter acronyms are taken. About 80% of 4-letter acronyms are taken. All common names are taken. 90% of common full names are taken. And more.

Anita’s article on domains and hosting.

Nice of whitehouse.gov not to have sued whitehouse.org.

.name is out. Domain name prices should continue crashing.

Google reduces need for domain names.

Domain names seca-iimb.com, seca-iimb.net and seca-iimb.org are not taken. Likewise for secb and secc. Free purchases are possible at NameZero and NameDemo.

Vishwabharat and Lead Networks let you register domain names in Indian Languages.

A whole new range of domain names, ranging from .museums to .sansansan have been bid for. I wonder who .biz and .xxx will go to.