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title: "The unbearable ease of domain names"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/10/the-unbearable-ease-of-domain-names.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/10/the-unbearable-ease-of-domain-names.html"
published: "2005-11-10T23:45:00"
updated: "2005-11-10T23:45:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "It's almost ridiculous how easy it's become to get your own domain name. So easy in fact, that when I found out that the business cards I had ordered had my blog address wrong becuase of my own mistake, \"ISeria z…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# The unbearable ease of domain names

By Roy Osherove November 10, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 10, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

It's almost ridiculous how easy it's become to get your own domain name. So easy in fact, that when I found out that the business cards I had ordered had my blog address wrong becuase of my own mistake, "ISeria**z**liable.com" I simply spent $8 at GoDaddy.com to purchase a domain name for a year that will automatically forward to ISerializable.com (which forwards to weblogs.asp.net/rosherove )

Some may call it a waste of money, I call it "Saving money on extra business cards".

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/