The Domain Name

I registered “2600.moe” with Namecheap late in 2024 in order to test some google workspace functions for consulting work I was doing. I chose this by combining an object on my desk (an Issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly) and a silly top-level domain, dot moe. The dot moe TLD became available for registration halfway through 2014, almost at the exact moment I began to dig much deeper into computers and internet subcultures at large. Users on the technology discussion board of one website I frequented jumped at the chance to own their own silly anime themed domain name. They used their new domains to host small file sharing sites, email servers, IRC servers, and even… blogs. In some small way using this domain to publish my own blog feels like a way to honor one of the internet subcultures that served as one of my introductions to the world of computer security.

Notes

Obviously I have no affiliation with the folks that publish 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, I just maintain a ritual of buying a copy once a year.