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Those
who have been in the domain
business for a long time will
remember DomainNameWire.com's
Andrew Allemann and veteran
executive Ted Olson (from
Name Media and Endurance
International)
often being kidded about being twins,
because they looked so much alike
- or possibly even being one person using two
different names! I'm starting to
believe a different variation of
the theme - that there are
two identical people but both
of them are Andrew
(perhaps the original and an identical
clone)! Look, Andrew lives is Seattle
and so does multi-billionaire Jeff
Bezos who has enough money to
make anything happen
(Exhibit A: he will be riding a
rocket into outer space
tomorrow). Just a coincidence? I
don't think so!
How
else could one guy churn out
industry news (often multiple
stories daily) for 16 years
and, for the past 7, also
produce 347
full-length episodes
of a popular podcast? Whatever the
case may be, I had a
great time being Andrew's guest on
episode
#347 that was released
today. When we recorded it late
last week, only one of the two
Andrews showed up, but I think
that was just to throw me off the
trail!
Andrew gave me an
opportunity to talk about the new American
Domain Names news and
information site I launched on
July 4th and how things are going
with America's .US ccTLD
today. The short answer is,
"it could and should be a
lot better." Still, the
current rush by business owners to
get online after seeing brick and
mortar enterprises get clobbered
in the pandemic has given .US a
boost (as has the ubiquity of Zoom.us).
During
the show, Andrew reminded me that he had bought a .US
domain from me many years ago
(probably 15 or so by now), Prefab.us.
He also noted that he still
has one of the great .US
geodomains - SanFrancisco.us.
When he mentioned that, it brought
back a painful memory of me rejecting a good offer for Reno.us
back in the day. If you want to
know more about that and a lot
more of the .US back story, check
out the
fast-paced 38-minute show for the
details.
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