What’s in a domain name?
// March 16th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Software
For Kenton City Schools our original domain name was the standard kenton.k12.oh.us. Unfortunately, only techies could remember it correctly, so I registered kentoncityschools.org. I’m still kicking myself for not registering the .com version, it’s since been picked up by domain squatter. 
Kentoncityschools.org has served us well, even with it being longer than our original k12.oh.us version.
In the back of my head I had always wanted a shorter domain, and with more and more mobile technologies being put into use, it only made sense to try to find a shorter domain name that we could use to supplement our current two. Trying to find a shorter .com/.net/.org was futile, so I started looking at alternative top level domain names, and settled on kcs.me. Now you can go to http://kcs.me/ and it will automatically redirect to our main page. I haven’t started integrating it into to many other services, but I do plan on setting up our email accounts so you can use @kcs.me for any current address and it will work. We also have a custom 404 error page that let’s us setup keywords as shortcuts to commonly used web pages on our website, such as the user’s personal portal page (their MyCatPage, kcs.me/my) and staff home pages (kcs.me/collinsr).
For your school or business, have you thought about additional domains or am I just being weird?
