Re: www.appleII.com up for sale

[Chris Morse <win32mfc@gmail.com>]

On May 2, 2:42 am, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> So it could - otoh there's hardly any scarcity of other valuable
> information sources for the Apple II .....
>
> But if you want to open a new one, there are plenty of varieties of
> the domain name you could try.  Some suggestions (I haven't checked that
> they're all free though):
>
> apple_ii.com
> apple][.com
> apple_][.com
> apple2.com
> apple_2.com

Mmm.. Domain names can only have alpha, letters and hyphens (and dots,
of course,
for subdomains), so the underscore and "][" can't be used..

I recently wanted to get a new domain name, myself, as my old one
cosmicwolf.com
expired and now someone is "sitting" on it.  I hate people who do
that...

I went with 3essentials.com for hosting and domain registration.  It's
a windows server
system, with support for ASP, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2005, DotNetNuke,
etc, and I want
to get my feet wet writing some dynamic web applications.

I'm not sure what I'll be hosting, exactly, yet.  But I do have one
idea that may be interesting.
Once upon a time there was a web page called (or something like) the
"Green Eggs Report".
It was a list of certain usenet newsgroups with a collection of URL's
from each group.  The
URL's were extracted from the messages as messages rolled by.  So you
could see all the
URL's posted to, say, comp.sys.apple2.  Unfortunately, I don't think
that site exists anymore.
I tried finding it again, but every link to it that I found would come
up dead.

So first I wrote a program called "Usenet Archiver" (ya, how original)
in VB.NET that is archiving
all the messages from usenet, for specific groups that I've told it to
"subscribe" to.  Of course,
comp.sys.apple2 is in there! :)  I subscribed to (so far) 323
newsgroups, and it took the program
about 2 weeks to "catch up" on all the messages, about 8 million in
all.  I have it setup so that
it only scans and retrieves messages during the nightime hours.  Now
it's up to 11.5 million
messages archived.  It's storing it in an SQL 2005 database and that
DB is now 38GB in size.

Next, I'm finishing up my "Archive URL" program that goes through all
the messages and looks
for (distinct) URL's.  After a URL is found, it will actually test the
URL and update the info with
information like whether the page was found, if it was a redirect, and
what the "title" of the page
was (from the title tag)..  Finally I'll take that data and build some
web pages out of it and put
that on my (new) site.

So what domain did I register?  I found "apple2e.org" was available,
so that's what I grabbed. :)

At the moment, nothing is there.. I've only had it for a few days..

// CHRIS