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In February 2004 a Guardian writer trying to describe people publishing audio on the web threw out three possible names in a single aside and…

Two companies show how big this category gets when someone builds it properly. B&H Photo Video took the pairing of photo and video, added pro…

Anyone who posts short video knows the ratio. The shoot takes ten minutes. The edit takes an hour or more: find the good part, cut…

Nobody voted on this. Somewhere in the last few years the industry needed a word for the work of watching a fast-moving field of machine…

Positioning mediagallery.org is the public working model of the Chaos Archive: a gallery that publishes a daily, unsorted stream of original photos, video and audio,…

A pattern starts to show up once you’ve been around domains and content long enough: formats matter just as much as names. And every now…

T3I.org caught my attention as another interesting three-character .org domain. At first glance, it looks like a simple alphanumeric combination, but T3I already has several…

LQO.net is a classic three-letter .net domain with a strong technical feel. The combination is short, visually clean and flexible enough to work as an…

Across 66 sites the week of August 30 to September 5 brought 18,880 visits and 19,950 page views, gains of 14.91% and 17.01%. The one…

Two chokepoints the world can’t stop watching. Both names are available, individually or as a pair. Hormuz.net Roughly a fifth of global oil moves through…

I3P.org is the kind of domain that catches my attention as a domain investor because it looks simple at first, but gets more interesting the…

A3G is actually a fairly useful alphanumeric pattern. The “3” can read as “three” or sometimes replace “to/too” less naturally, so the strongest interpretations are…

W2O can have several plausible meanings depending on the context. The strongest and most brandable interpretations are: W2O = Way to Online W2O = Web…

The weekly report across 66 sites shows 18.9k visits, up 2.72%, and 19.5k page views, up 0.52%. Median page load time came in at 5,680ms,…

Some domain names require explanation. This one does not. Two common words, joined without a hyphen, describing exactly what the site would be: a place…

A renewal notice came through for Montmorency.org this week. I kept it, which is worth explaining, because the reasoning applies to a lot of the…

Most renewal posts are a list of things someone paid for. This one is more useful than that, because the interesting part isn’t the seven…

Across all 65 active sites, the network logged 14.2k visits and 14.65k page views for the week of July 12–18, 2026, with both metrics down…

For the first time in the history of the public internet, machines generate more traffic to websites than people do. New data from Cloudflare puts…

A rare pairing of two of the most valuable words in the tech-naming lexicon — “Moonshot” and “Computing” — combined into a single, clean, exact-match…

Ten rounds in. The pile still hasn’t organized itself, and by now that feels less like a failure than a format. Strays together, no thesis,…