{"id":878,"date":"2013-02-28T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T23:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-02-28T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T23:56:20","slug":"who-owns-hokkai-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/hokkaido\/who-owns-hokkai-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns Hokkai.do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes when I&#8217;m bored, I&#8217;ll plug interesting word combinations into register.com and see what domain names are available. A while back I was intrigued by the two character top-level domains (TLDs) available from other countries such as .ly, .gl and .it (i.e. bit.ly, goo.gl, redd.it). I like the simplicity of a short, clean domain name and these do that. \u00a0So I tried to create domains that would fit with the preexisting TLD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And of course I thought &#8220;wow, wouldn&#8217;t hokkai.do be great?&#8221; So I searched it. It turns out that .do is the TLD of the Dominican Republic, and that hokkai.do is taken. \u00a0But I was disappointed when I visited it. \u00a0There is nothing other than some text that says &#8220;Welcome to Hokkaido! Soon, my pretties&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0It&#8217;s been like that for more than six months since I checked it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hokkai.do\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-879\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Screen Shot 2013-02-28 at 8.54.55 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Screen-Shot-2013-02-28-at-8.54.55-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">.DO domains aren&#8217;t cheap &#8211; one like this costs $125 for a two-year registration. \u00a0Someone&#8217;s paying $60 per year to sit on the hokkai.do domain name, linking to nothing and showing nothing. It seems a waste of a beautiful and sexy domain that if the Hokkaido Government decided to make use of, would give them some major street cred with internet-savvy peeps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Who owns you, hokkai.do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when I&#8217;m bored, I&#8217;ll plug interesting word combinations into register.com and see what domain names are available. A while back I was intrigued by the two character top-level domains (TLDs) available from other countries such as .ly, .gl and .it (i.e. bit.ly, goo.gl, redd.it). I like the simplicity of a short, clean domain name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hokkaido"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}