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> "There are only two valid e-mail addresses on the gail.com domain" [...] > "My husband and I" [...] > "If you have a question not answered above, feel free to send it to: faq at gail period com" I wonder if the emails sent to the faq inbox would bounce haha
Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong. "You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.com (or some variant form) as a filler email address across the Internet. Opening up @asdf.com lets in hundreds of email messages a day pertaining to porn site registrations, real audio downloading, mailing lists dealing with Windows NT ... the list goes on and on! If you would really like to s…
Why keep the domain if you don't plan on monetizing it? What's the point?
Hello and welcome to the gail.com FAQ.
Q: Why isn't there any content here? Can't you at least throw up a picture of your cat for the Internet to check out?
A: Sorry, I have a cat, but she's pretty unexciting by Internet standards. As for why there is very little content here, we wanted to keep the server's attack surface as small as possible to keep it safe.
Q: Interested in selling gail.com?
A: Sorry, no.
Q: How did you manage to get gail.com?
A: My husband registered it as a birthday gift back in 1996.
Q: How many times a day is this page visited?
A: In 2020 this page received a total of 5,950,012 hits, which is an average of 16,257 per day. Looking at just unique hits, we received a total of 1,295,284, for an average of 3,539 unique hits per day. Occasionally, we get Twitter-bombed and may get several tens of thousands of visitors a day. As an example, on July 21st 2020 we received 109,316 hits.
Q: Why is your website so popular? Are you one of those famous people that no one knows why they're famous?
A: No, I'm not famous. It seems likely that most visitors simply mistype gmail.com and end up visiting gail.com by mistake.
Q: I tried to send some photos to my girlfriend and typed gail.com instead of gmail.com in the address field. The photos were of a very personal nature. Can you please delete them?
A: There are only two valid e-mail addresses on the gail.com domain, so it is extremely likely that your photos were rejected by my e-mail provider and tossed into the bit bucket. Another interesting gail.com factoid: my amazing e-mail provider, ProtonMail, rejects about 1.2 million mis-addressed e-mails per week to the gail.com domain.
Q: I think you're infringing on my trademark...
A: If you consult with someone well versed in trademark law, they will tell you that you can't have an exclusive trademark on a common word or name. My husband and I successfully defended ourselves against an attempted domain takeover in 2006; see WIPO Case D2006-0655[^2] for more information.
Q: Are you interested in monetizing gail.com?
A: No, but thanks for asking.
Q: Don't you know that you could throw some ads up and make money?
A: Yes, I know, thank you. For those who feel they need more advertising in their life, please have a look at our swanky Electronic Frontier Foundation ad below. If you believe in a free Internet, please consider clicking on the link and donating to the EFF.
If you have a question not answered above, feel free to send it to: faq at gail period com. Thanks for visiting.
-Gail
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1. screenshot: https://archive.vn/CQVsS/b0c07d01ede677c3cc5f6d5212430d6a6be...
2. archived case: https://archive.vn/8FaFU
Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.
Yes, this reminds me of 190 Bowery, a building in NYC that some photographer bought for $102k back in the 70s. He finally caved in though selling it for $55m in 2014. https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/31/20732103/jay-myself-document...
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jaymyself
I did Jay's workshop back in the 90's. He completely changed the way I look at photography and I was an assistant to Ansel Adams primary printer.
Maybe because I don't understand modern CSS and part of the most new HTML markup, but I kinda enjoy reading this type of source code.
This is what it would look like with proper "boring old" html/css written back in the days https://jsfiddle.net/dgtvjn5x/ (more readable and slightly lighter)
For the sake of completeness:
-it would require a more verbose doctype or none depending on when it was written ;
- the "style" element would also require a "type" attribute until some point in time ;
- "border: none" isn't required anymore, browsers have stopped adding border around images.
PS. this is just a comment about how html/css can still be easy and straightforward these days. I do not mean to undermine the fact that the owner did the right thing with regard to standing for and protecting the domain (and promoting eff :)).
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My favourite 90's style website, that's still running, is http://www.armory.com/armory.html , complete with FTP Index and user finger files.
Blocked by our company filter as an "adult" resource, so you might have to add a NSFW warning there.
