Dominiek.com

I intended to kick-off this year by registering dominiek.com, my first name. That night, I was reminded of the malicious fundamentals of the Internet. Like many of our apparent international governmental bodies, the Internet is largely controlled by the US and they want to keep it that way. The same night I checked for my future domain it was registered. It was registered by an obviously fake company ‘Maison Tropicale’, une compagnie de services en langue française aux Caraïbes, yeah right! After some digging around I found out there is this big scam going on involving numerous organizations that monitor WHOIS queries. Since I only checked the availability of the domain at my local Dutch company and using some standard UNIX tools, I think this corruption runs pretty deep. You can read here that there are some holes in the policies of the US domain servers that allow these kind of things. Since the US domain servers profit from it, they don’t intend to change anything.

Fortunately, dominiek.com didn’t generate them much revenue and I didn’t call their 1000$ bluff. After five days I could register it my own ‘dot commercial’. I’m actually starting to wonder why I chose this overly capitalism-flavoured .com. Well anyway, it’s up and running so check it out. My new blog URL will be blog.dominiek.com and my professional URL will be dominiek.com.

Yes, this new year I might start some freelance projects, hence the dominiek.com. This all depends on the outcome of my job hunts and graduation process. From February 2nd I will be in Tokyo: hunting for jobs; doing projects; learning Japanese; reading up on IT in Asia. I will be back in the Netherlands in April either briefly or prolonged.

あけまして おめでとう！ このことは少し遅い。 二月から 東京で日本語をべんきょうします。 いま 日本語の知識はとても悪いです OTL

だから、 がんばるよ！

来年たぶん dominiek.com日本語版 は あります ☆_☆