Ryan Collins » domain name http://ryancollins.org Educational Technology Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:05:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What’s in a domain name? http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/ http://ryancollins.org/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:52:00 +0000 Mr.Rcollins http://ryancollins.org/wp/2009/03/16/whats-in-a-domain-name/ 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?

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