The new domain

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On one of those good old days, I wanted to create an identity for myself online. I called myself Ezhik – a hedgehog – and I was building a corner on the internet that was for me. Hence, ezhik.me.

It was a different time. The internet was still young and there was still hope for a brighter future unburdened by all the baggage of history, all the war, all the nations, all the ideologies. The twentieth century was over but the twenty-first did not yet truly begin.

But times have changed. History never ended. And so we are back to the same old mess. Cyberspace never became independent. Worse than that, it was colonized. Little communities, all swept away by waves of corporate interests, propaganda, and psyops.

And so, rather than a cute domain hack, I have to look at .me for what it truly is: the top-level domain (TLD) for the country of Montenegro. And if I'm going to use a country-based TLD, rather than one that just so happened to have a nice ISO 3166 code, I might as well use the TLD for the country that accepted me.

So, ezhik.jp it is.

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