What’s in a website name? 

I looked at the 3 conventional TLD (Top Level Domains), com, net, org and discovered they were not freely available for QuantumDesign. 

Com was “for sale” on Go-Daddy for an undisclosed price. Net and Org seemed to be owned and in use by China or Japan. I didn’t dig deep enough to figure out which. I don’t need to know. One was political, with pictures of Trump and Musk, probably an anti-tarriff posting from China. I didn’t try to translate.

Not available is OK. I had to check to be sure. This BLOG is not really a good fit for any of those three. The three are low cost to register, which I like,

The COM was probably purchased as an “investment” which is a common practice. It’s kind of like a “ransom” IMHO. 

No sweat. 

I first set up this blog as a sub-domain to one of my other TLD’s. It looked like this – quantumdesign.xxxxxxxxxxxx.net.  Works fine but is a long URL. That bothered me a bit. I started looking for a low cost (and available) TLD. 

Another trick is to put a dash in the words (Quantum-Design) and see if that was available. I didn’t check as com, net, org are not really appropriate anyway.

Then I thought of a ccTLD (country code TLD). I checked quantumdesign.us (United States) and it was available. Also low cost at $15/year to register. ($1.25/month)

The .us country code TLD is cheap, short and appropriate. I am a “happy camper”

Here we are as quantumdesign.us