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Vanity Domain N. [common; From `vanity Plate' As In Car License Plate] An Internet Domain, Particularly In The .
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vanity domain n.
[common; from `vanity plate' as in
car license plate] An Internet domain, particularly in
the .com or .org top-level domains, apparently created for no
reason other than boosting the creator's ego.
Related:
Internet address n. 1. [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form foo@bar.
baz, where foo is a user name, bar is a sitename, and baz is a `domain' name, possibly including periods itself....
erver n. A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs.
A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `web servers', `name servers', `domain servers', `news servers', `finger servers', and the like....
erver: n. A kind of {daemon} that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the server runs.
A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with `name servers', `domain servers', `news servers', `finger servers', and the like....
domainist: /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. Said of an {{Internet address}} (as opposed to a {bang path}) because the part to the right of the `@' specifies a nested series of `domains'
for example, esr@snark.thyrsus.com specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com....
domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj. 1. [Usenet, by pointed analogy with "sexist", "racist", etc.
] Someone who judges people by the domain of their email addresse...
itename /si:t'naym/ n. [Unix/Internet] The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, Usenet, or other forms of electronic information interchange.
The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creativity and humor they often display....
itename: /si:t'naym/ [UNIX/Internet] n. The unique electronic name of a computer system, used to identify it in UUCP mail, USENET, or other forms of electronic information interchange.
The folklore interest of sitenames stems from the creativity and humor they often display....
Bart: Look at all this great stuff, Lis! [finds vanity license plate rack] Cool.
..personalized plates! "Barclay"..."Barry"..."Bert"....
0435 Is your license plate computer-related? -- from THE HACKER TEST