I Owned A Record Company

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Well, kinda. I made some independent CDs and sold quite a few of them (this goes back to the previous century), and still have the registered business name with the appropriate Australian authorities. And my Australian Business Number (which will mean nothing to the non-Australians) still has dg4G Records listed as a trading name. But I didn't hold on to the domain names that I had registered at the time. I just didn't have enough foresight to imagine me using them again. And in the days before deregulation of domain name ownership in Australia, owning and not using them was a little expensive. Out of curiosity, I just checked out the domain for my former "record company" site. Why don't you do the same thing. Right now.

I don't think I'd want that domain now even if I could have it. While I still use dg4G as my Twitter name (not least because it's very short, freeing up more of those valuable 140 characters to use for important things in retweets and @replies, like words), it also makes an appearance in a few of my social media profiles...but not all of them. Or sometimes it's there, but in an adulterated format, like "dg4G..." which is my Skype name, or "dg4God" which is my delicious.com name and also one of my multiple gmail accounts. I used to own davidgoodwin.com.au, and could do so again, but why? .au domains are a bit naff. However, at no time in the last 15 years have I ever seen davidgoodwin.com available for registration or purchase. Until now. So...should I buy it? How much do you think it's worth? Is it just a vanity URL, or protection of my future web presence? Tell me your thoughts ... but what I really want to ask is...would Jesus want to own Jesus.com, or JesusChrist.com, or Messiah.com, or Saviour.com (or...the list is almost endless) if his time on earth as a human was happening right now? Sure, it's idle speculation...but I think we should take the WWJD question a little more seriously than we sometimes do. It's easy to be flippant about something that gets thrown around carelessly like WWJD often is, but that doesn't mean it isn't a worthwhile question. What do you think?

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