 All right, well this broadcast is going to be a little different than my other ones I'm going to practice a five-minute ignite presentation And that's where I get to display exactly 20 slides set to automatically advance Whether I'm ready or not every 15 seconds and this one is going to be about of all things domain names so I'll I'll take questions at the end, but Let's get started It is kind of brave to do this with With 15 seconds whether I go or not. Okay, so here I go. I'm not going to be clicking. I've set my slides to automatically advance So I would like to spend five minutes talking about something you use every day and that's domain names So let's dig into domains domain are part of every URL that you enter and We use a lot of different URLs in one day The very first domain name I ever registered was planet fifth calm and there's a picture of me in 1998 My first year of teaching it led to my class website called planet fifth and Dot-com is by far the most popular Top-level domain name. That's the green Chart here then dot tk is next and net but everybody wants a Dot-com name even Google They weren't able to register the proper spelling of Google. They they registered a typo of Google and That's what we have today because URL squatters go out their domain name squatters go out there and they buy up tons of domain names in hopes that maybe they sell one or two For a lot of money There's this article about this guy who buys an average of 300 domain names of A month and earns like half a million dollars a month on that So we're reduced to having websites like this especially for educators of words that are not quite English words But so they can get a dot-com. They have some interesting spellings. I Looked it up and if you remember remind 101 is this texting service and they became remind and they bought remind I this is actually pretty reasonable for $38,000 for that domain name Now I spent $10 on plus Tony dot-com Is a few years ago when I wanted it to be easier to get to my Google Plus page So I just bought plus Tony calm and redirected it to My Google Plus But comms aren't the only thing that's out there. There's dot US for a country code There's even dot me for Montenegro, which used to be part of Yugoslavia There's Italy. There's the state of Palestine and others So so I bought Tony V dot me. I like it because it rhymes and I use it for my URL shortener Then So it's not a Dot-com but some people have some really interesting dot-coms I really respect domain names that that do exactly what they say like down for everyone or just me calm You type in a web address to see if it's just you or down for everyone like the dot-com says Or if you're wondering how secure your password is there's how secure is my password net? type in a theoretical password and see how long it would take to crack and then I Going from comms and net's there's dot it and there's some pretty neat things Here's a just paste dot it and it's a website. You don't even have to log into you go there You paste what you want and you get a URL that said just paste dot it So if you want to register a domain name you some places you can do this at and there's lots of registrars Out there is go daddy calm and hover calm if you use go daddy go find a promo code I just bought a URL recently for 99 cents, but I'm only Renting it when you buy a domain name you have to pay the fee every year or you can pay several years in advance But what happens is people stop paying the rent they get evicted from their domain name and somebody else can take it I My website is learning in hand calm and I just for fun bought Lih.co because it's a lot easier for me to type in when I want to go to my own website I don't really expect anybody else to use it, but it's another use When you register domain name the slide is in here just to read to think about the domain name and make sure you run Up by other people because there's some potential for some unfortunate domain names So be careful and nowadays we have some different Extensions and top-level domains instead of calm and net they've added tons dot rocks dot cool dot sale dot expert And when you see these you're gonna probably think that they're not real, but they really are For example this website called jeopardy rocks jeopardy rocks. It's not jeopardy rocks calm is jeopardy rocks and So you can play online jeopardy games there at dot rocks so you could even register things like those So this is my last slide and it's just telling me maybe next time maybe another topic could be Wi-Fi hotspot names and how do How to get into fights over Wi-Fi hotspots. Oh and there are up So that was just kind of a fun little ignite you do it for for exactly five minutes and You realize that in 15 seconds You can only say like a sentence or two and I probably like five sentences I wanted to say for each slide so when I do it again. I have some some tweaking to do So thank you for watching and I'll just wait a second in case there's any any questions that you wanted to ask Or any hearts you want to give I'll take those two Thank you Yeah, Megan definitely love the think about these think about what you could register what domains You know, maybe even in the future especially with with using a go daddy promo code for getting it for 99 cents for the first year You can let it go after the first year if you never think you'll use it but I've registered I probably have 20 domain names under my name and that's just because I Kind of proactively get some and and I'd love them expire later Yeah, I do Jenny. I miss everybody at slide to learn so Keep keep sliding and keep learning enough for me. All right. Well, it is past my bedtime. I'm here in Tucson for tech camp and oh Sure. I thank you for the positive comments. I I It is like I said past my bedtime, so I will see you later