Jon Stewart Reluctantly Settles for .Net, Struggles with Comptroller
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Two Daily Show clips related to domain names (Ok, so one’s a stretch).
Last week on the Daily Show Jon Stewart discussed net neutrality. In the story, he also poked fun at domain names, saying he registered a .net because he couldn’t get the .com. He repeated it several times during the story. I can’t repeat the made up domain he mentions in the video, but he emphasized .net. “I was going to have that .com but it was already taken, so I got dot net.”
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| From Here to Neutrality | ||||
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Later in the week he discussed Michael Bloomberg’s opponent in the Mayoral election. It really doesn’t have much to do with domain names, except for me personally. Bloomberg’s opponent was the former comptroller of New York City, and I own the domain name Comptroller.com. So Jon, if you really want to know what a comptroller is, visit Comptroller.com. And if any politicians running for comptroller want a great domain name for their campaign, I’m happy to lease comptroller to them.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Indecision 2009 – NYC Edition | ||||
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John Stewart Reluctantly Settles for .Net, Struggles with Comptroller – http://tinyurl.com/yl3qcne
Not entirely relevant to the above, but it’s JON Stewart, not JOHN. Both .com’s are taken, so he was still stuck, but it DOES make a difference for the domain
In most cases I think the general public sees .net as the next best TLD next to .com. This is another example of .net being the second choice when it comes to buying a domain.
Paul – crap, you’re right. That’s what you get for a post the day after Halloween
Please do not put anymore videos in your articles.
It takes 1 minute for your site to open because of the video. And, if you want to read the comments, it takes another minute for that page to open.
I’m sure I’m not the only one experiencing this delay.
I’ll come back after this article with the video flips over to page 2.
It’s loading up fine from here in the US, nearly an instantaneous render even for the comments section. At least from my vantage-point, the embedded videos load up as quickly as the sponsor stuff. Perhaps users from overseas are having a different experience?