disassociated.com [.au] travelling light since the dawn of the dotcom boom.

Since 1997 in fact.

For those who came in late: during the heyday of my previous web incarnation, disassociated.com.au, a rather devious person purchased the domain name disassociated.com with the obvious intention of on-selling it to me at some (bloated) profit. This was during the height of the dot com boom when many sites also owned the .org .net .etc extensions of their domain name.

Well, at disassociated (to use another dot com cliche), we (to use yet another cliche) don’t work like that. I was quite happy just being com.au thank you very much. But then Australian tax laws changed. To own a com.au domain extension required registering a business in the same, or a very similar name. Registering such a business name also required the regular reporting to the tax office of all income earned by the said business.

A little difficult considering disassociated, as such, earns no revenue. Sure, disassociated’s presence earns me a certain notoriety that eventually makes me money, but not in its own right. And that’s fine by me.

To cut a long story short, last Thursday I learnt disassociated.com was available for registeration and bought it immediately.

So, it’s farewell to Emulate3 (I never really liked the name anyway, but that’s another story) and time for the disassociated years to, once again, resume… :)