cartesian-heights.org
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jackHow about cartesian-heights.org? It's distinctive, it's a nice name, it looks fairly easy to type.
Are hyphens sane in domain names? I know many sites automatically reject[1] any email address with a "+" in, is a "-" likely to be a problem?
If you saw it, would you remember if it had a hyphen, dot, underscore or nothing between the words? If I said "cartesian heights dot org with a hyphen" would you understand it?
Are you familiar enough with the adjective "cartesian" to be able to remember it if you hadn't heard it before?
[1] See standard "why go to such an effort to make life more difficult for people?" rant
Are hyphens sane in domain names? I know many sites automatically reject[1] any email address with a "+" in, is a "-" likely to be a problem?
If you saw it, would you remember if it had a hyphen, dot, underscore or nothing between the words? If I said "cartesian heights dot org with a hyphen" would you understand it?
Are you familiar enough with the adjective "cartesian" to be able to remember it if you hadn't heard it before?
[1] See standard "why go to such an effort to make life more difficult for people?" rant
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Date: 2008-05-01 08:44 am (UTC)Thank you, yes exactly.
common words that are at least relatively easy to spell.
That's what I thought. Better than "daemon". OTOH, "Cartesian" isn't very common for non-mathmos, though I think easy to spell :)
a similar problem to "cartesiandaemon"
Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. Long is annoying just from a typing standpoint. I think it's probably _less_ problem in an URL, as most of the time you have autocomplete, but you if you start having email adresses (name@cartesian-heights.org) it gets complicated.
AFAIK it will only confuse humans,
:( Apparently so. I thought it would be fairly distinctive, I see hyphenated URLS fairly rarely.