A Message For Teacher
From left to right: Michael-Carter.com, Ben-Carter.net (he's young and the .com had gone), Jon-Carter.com, David-Carter.com in Mexico 2007.
My 15 year old son Jon came home from school today and said that that his class had had a technology lesson where they discussed domain names!
Have domain names made it on the the UK national curriculum at last? I was impressed. For a moment.
Proudly (I think), Jon explained that his dad has hundreds of domain names and then proceeded to show the teacher and some of his class mates this site, along with some of my others.
Ironically, his enthusasm was met with a "No, it's not your dad, it's just someone with the same name" comment from his teacher.
If this individual ever pops back and has a look at my site and stays long enough to read this blog, I hope that she reads this following comment.
Look away of you're not Jon's teacher, as this is a personal note:
He knows a bit about domains, the Internet and most of all, who his dad is - because his dad"Jon Carter, my son has had the domain name, jon-carter.com since he was 3 hours old. That is 15 years.
works from home on the Internet and is there every day to play a big role in his life.
Yes, it is the SAME Jon Carter. My son. Your pupil".
posted by David Carter @ 07:09
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Hi, I am curious:
Several days have passed by since the teacher/pupil chat about daddy's domains.
Has any the teacher made any comment or expression on your clarification post?
Well, the teacher probably wont beleive either that I am posting this note from half the world around. !;)
Sound like a great opportunity
to have the Jon's teacher over for dinner at the CARTER's...
thanks for your insight.
Ed - Michigan, USA
It's funny, I registered my daughter's name in the dot com extension the a few days after she was born last year - easy to do, as our last name is not common - and I just set up her Gmail account yesterday with her first name, in case she wants one five or six years from now. Then I said to my wife, "Where's that list of baby names we like? I might register some of those for our future kids." She thought I was nuts.
And I'm really not sure if I'm wasting my time (and money) or not. I've had my own name.com for many years, but never used it because I value my privacy. So I just point it to one of my business blogs. Is it really that important to have your own name.com, or is it just vanity? It's like saying, "Yeah, that might be plenty of Joe Shmoes but I'm the only JoeShmoe.com, so I'm special!" But you know what? You're really not. You're just easier to find. And unless you're the President, or a famous artist, no one's typing your name into the browser and expecting to find you in particular.
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