I like the idea of Bonjour, effortless ad-hoc networks and there is a bit of free software out there (Howl, Avahi, daapd, probably more?). I’ve made a portage overlay of nss-mdns for gentoo users. In short, this package allows name resolution over multicast dns.
Enjoy!
It all started so innocently, there was a domain i wanted to register as it had been discarded. It turns out some registrar picked it up with dubious intent. I’ll see if they bother to register it again next year. That’s beside the point.
I was ready to buy a name so I checked what was out there. I liked the idea of something short and quickly found n.gen.nz, but that wasn’t the end of it. After using it as a bookmark system another learned of it, shocked by the abundance of single letter domain names he poked around and gathered a list.
Then to the interface meeting. Many domains were registered, including h.ac.nz, m.ac.nz and t.ac.nz.
Names like blu.t.ac.nz, tic.t.ac.nz and rocket.n.gen.nz come to mind. Creative suggestions welcome.