Xerithane's Journal: The tenios.com domain.

So, as some know I'm starting up a company right now. It's called Tenios, LLC.. I can now actually post to the link, because I got the domain back.

I registered it with network solutions long ago, as the name is something I've come up with since 1996 or something and did some projects under. I decided to turn it into a real company about 8 months ago. I try to update the NIC record, and the email address I used I didn't have access to. I went through this once when my DSL providor went bankrupt and I lost my IP address for the DNS server, and Network Solutions was less than helpful in updating the registry. That was for nerdfarm.org, which it took me about 6 months to get active again. At which point I decided to just drop Network Solutions completely. I now use Gandi and am very pleased.

So, nerdfarm.org expired out from Network Solutions after a year of non-payment. However, tenios.com went a total of over 2 years of non-payment without Network Solutions reqlinuishing it into the pool of available domains. That was my welcome back present.

I got back from Japan, and did the normal check and was overly ecstatic to see: NO MATCH FOR TENIOS.COM. I register the domain, and already have the DNS server setup to handle tenios.com through my RackSpace server. It goes live within 24 hours of registration and much to my surprise within another 24 hours every address that was posted on the original tenios.com site which has been down for over 2 years is now receiving spam!

None of the addresses are valid, because the naming convention has changed for the addresses, so I'm getting the failure notices CC'd to me. It's really amusing to see how long invalid names stay on lists. These addresses have been bouncing for 2 years with an unresolved host error, now a mailbox not found message.

I just have to giggle at how much money it must have cost spammers trying to send email to invalid email accounts because of this. Granted, it's probably on the order of $0.10 a year. It's still funny to me. I have a weird sense of humor, though.

I also wrote one of the best sentences ever last night:
The communication protocols are available freely for development of 3rd party application development under the GPL license to be written.

I didn't catch it on my first proof read, one of the Tenios employees did. Gave me a healthy ration of shit for it too to be written. Justified in my opinion to be written. Oh well :)

let us know

[gmhowell]

Let us know when you go live. Some of us may be in a position to give you the chance to prove your service/product.

Re:let us know

[Xerithane]

Our site will go up first. I'm still coding my little heart out with our first product.

You can check out our site at http://www.tenios.com/home.php [tenios.com] for now, to get a sneak preview. It's a bit big, but we're going to reduce the size of some of the images before launch.

Will the real Slim Xerithane please stand up?

[EggDye]

Xerithane, Which person is you in the "About Us" image? I'm voting for the guy in the foreground to the right.

Re:Will the real Slim Xerithane please stand up?

[Xerithane]

Xerithane, Which person is you in the "About Us" image? I'm voting for the guy in the foreground to the right.


None of the above :)