It’s actually unbelievably tricky to set up a web site anonymously. From all accounts the “anonymous” registrars will roll over and divulge your details at the drop of a telephone, and the only truly anonymous dns service that everyone seems to recommend has possibly the worst interface in the entire history of terrible things.
I ended up registering myself a brand new and somewhat anonymous domain through Namecheap.com, as recommended by Micheil who is incidentally working on music journal OnTheTune.com. The domain was cheaper than Godaddy and came with the privacy service for free, so basically when the rest of my domains come up for renewal I’m quite possibly going to transfer them to Namecheap as well.
So while I have no doubt that the whois privacy feature is a flimsy facade, all I really want to do is obfuscate my details. It’s not like I’m going to be breaking the law or anything, I’m just paranoid and want to keep this my new site under wraps. A tantalising secret.
The week’s been good so far. I finally went to the doctor about my coughy phlegmy thing on Monday and he gave me antibiotics which I’m not sure have actually done anything. I’m feeling better, but I also haven’t been able to shake this thing for the last month so feeling better isn’t necessarily synonymous with being better. I’m musing over the possibility of riding to work tomorrow regardless, but considering how late it is now, I’m not sure I’ll even wake up in time.
Tate also clued me in on the Bike Week festivities held over the weekend, and I was kind of keen to head on the ride through the new tunnel. A culmination of factors got in my way though; the registration web site is ugly, it’s asking me for way too much information, I need to get out of bed to get my credit card to pay the $40 or so bike toll. Apparently there’s an arbitrary registration deadline of today, and right now I can’t be arsed moving so I’ll go to Jeremy’s evening of board games on Saturday instead.
I kid you not, board games. It’s going to be so rad grown men will weep.
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2 Comments
Critical Jim
March 13, 2010 11:01
Things I wish I knew how they worked #13,282: domain registration. Also, eat some oranges. I’m pretty sure that is the beat medical advice for any ailment. And by beat, I mean best, but I can’t scroll in this box whilst editing to fix that.
Ash
April 3, 2010 12:46
Oranges are pretty rad.