My only thoughts after reading this: really cool (although I wish I had a use case to justify copying it) but how does one obtain a domain name like josh.com for a personal blog?
This is Josh levine's site, the guy behind Island; he basically started electronic trading. He used to use this site to stream himself trading in the 90s/00s. Crazy seeing it on hn, I'm just finishing a book he was featured in
I wish I'd known, back in the 90s, that I didn't actually need DNS hosting arranged in order to register domain names. The form asked for DNS server names and I assumed that my registrations would have been rejected because somebody would be checking to see if the DNS servers were actually authoritative for the domain.
At the time I was getting dialup service from a small regional ISP.
One day I asked them if I could use my own domain name and they happily offered to host the dns records, make my dialup IP static, and set records for www,mx, etc. All for a small one time setup fee which I gladly paid.
I had previously been given an old sun box which I then setup with a modem on a dedicated phone line (with auto-redial) and suddenly I had my own internet site in my apt!
