I never wanted a .COM — and i can’t even end that sentence with a period, because “.COM.” looks stupid, so i added an emdash and just kept going.

No, seriously.

The previous URL for DSM32 was http://dsm32.blogspot.com/ (and i did not like it). The blogspot domain was created by Google in 2003 to house Blogger (founded in 1999 and acquired by Google in 2003). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

.COM at the end of a web address means commerce, and i never had any interest in commerce. Commerce is buying and selling and making money. No thanks. Not interested.

.ORG is for a lot more casual of an organization — and not about money. Anything but money. It could be academia, but more likely non-profit kinds of stuff. Education is .EDU — my favorite, but you don’t get a .EDU web address unless you’re a school. I’ll settle for a .EDU email address; that’s cool.

.ORG might look a little clunky, but i’ll take it. Back when i worked for Peace & Love, Incorporated (in a fictional version of 1993), we had a .ORG address for the limited number of computers hooked up to the very young internet, such as it was — still mostly universities. Then the numbers exploded.

Wikipedia describes .ORG as being intended for websites “for organizations that didn’t fit anywhere else”. Not fitting anywhere else; perfect for me.

Why would i want to fit in? (Except for the obvious reason: that most other people want to.) Well, typically i just don’t fit in. And that’s fine with me. (As it is for anybody who truly cares about me.)

Do you fit in?