Additional Domains

Christopher Horrell

Sep 8, 2006

A few days ago, I snapped up horrell.name and horrell.info so now you can access this site at either domain, but horrell.ca is still the preferred one. And so the Horrell empire expands!

Well, not really.

I was tempted to get horrell.biz and horrell.mobi but both were pricey and the former feels mildly sleazy while the later, well, I just don’t know if I see the point of having a .mobi top level domain. Something about it just doesn’t feel right. I think I’ll hold off for now at any rate.

And blast and damn! horrell.com, horrell.net, and horrell.org are all spoken for!

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