Yes, I know that the first man was on the moon more than twenty years before anybody even thought of domains (I wonder if that's true...), but don't worry I'm going to make sense of this. I hope.
As the domainers will tell you, it's important to stay up on the news and keep up with recent trends if you want to discover that new premium domain that is always dancing just a step or two ahead of us in cyberspace. Premium domains are built around basic words and phrases both popular and obscure, and events past and present. I was curious to see what had been made of the words, phrases and events of that event forty years ago this month (actually, I don't need much of an excuse to start filling in that blank domain search box). I figured, who knows, I might get lucky and discover that "Apollo11" hadn't been registered as a .Com yet.
But of course, it had been. According to Domain Tools it's been owned by some lucky guy in Florida since the late '90s. Even the typo "Apolo11.com" was gone. I could still get "Apollo11.Net" for only 688 bucks, but I decided to pass. And as I've been preaching, you can still get some great domain names-including Apollo11-with the extensions .Me and .Mobi. Think of it: Apollo11 and .Mobi; what could be more apropos the mobile web?
So much for the mission. How about the Saturn 5 rocket that lifted them to glory? Called the most efficient rocket engine ever developed, it would make a great domain name. Unfortunately "Saturn5.Com," "SaturnFive.Com" and "SaturnV.Com" have all been registered. Again, you can get .Me and .Mobi on all three and even .Info on the last two.
As far as the event itself, you can forget "moonshot.Com" or "moonmission.Com." Even the .Mes and .Mobis are taken. You could, however, register "themoonshot.Com" and "themoonmission.Com."
How about some of the great lines from those heady days of yore? Remember, "the eagle has landed" and "One small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind?" Sorry, both are taken. Someone even took the longer phrase with the "a" removed; I think most people think Neil Armstrong said it that way. Most of the other TLDs are available, however.
Just for fun I decided to look into the names of the astronauts and see if any of them had become domains. "BuzzAldrin.Com," named for the other astronaut to walk on the moon on that same mission with Neil Armstong was there; Michael Collins, the astronaut that waited for Aldrin and Armstrong in the Columbia wasn't. Neil Armstrong's domain name, "NeilArmstong.Com," in keeping with the man himself, was masked and forwarded to a charity site.
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