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  "title": "What I learned from 20 years of giving domains as Christmas presents",
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      "id": "section-1",
      "title": "What I learned from 20 years of giving domains as Christmas presents",
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      "headingHtml": "Slide 1",
      "html": "<h3>What I learned from 20 years of giving domains as Christmas presents</h3><p>Dominik.Lukes@ctl.ox.ac.uk</p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=1\">View original slide 1</a></p>"
    },
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      "id": "section-2",
      "title": "Outline",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 2",
      "html": "<h3>Outline</h3><ol><li>My story</li><li>What you need to know</li><li>What you need to avoid</li><li>What to do with it</li><li>Dilemmas</li><li>What’s new</li></ol><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=2\">View original slide 2</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-3",
      "title": "My story",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 3",
      "html": "<h3>My story</h3><ul><li>1998: www.cuni.cz/~dlukes</li><li>2000: bohemica.com</li><li>2005: dominiklukes.net</li><li>2010: strcprstskrskrk.com</li><li>2020: 30 domains later</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=3\">View original slide 3</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-4",
      "title": "Metaphorhacker.net",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 4",
      "html": "<h3>Metaphorhacker.net</h3><p><img src=\"/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/media/img-652619e291174203.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Metaphor Hacker website, &quot;Hacking Metaphors, Frames and Other Ideas&quot;, with its menu (About, Blog on Request, Metaphorhacker), a search box, and a list of posts beginning with &quot;Why I am a feminist: A reading list&quot; by Dominik Lukeš, March 8, 2021.\" loading=\"lazy\"></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=4\">View original slide 4</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-5",
      "title": "Why I own 30 domains",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 5",
      "html": "<h3>Why I own 30 domains</h3><ul><li>Emails</li><li>Websites</li><li>Gifts</li><li>Creative Writing</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=5\">View original slide 5</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-6",
      "title": "Key concepts people don’t get",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 6",
      "html": "<h3>Key concepts people don’t get</h3><ul><li>Every web page is a file in a folder on a computer somewhere</li><li>Every computer on the internet has a unique number (IP Address)</li><li>Domains are verbal shortcuts</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=6\">View original slide 6</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-7",
      "title": "From a presentation I did in 1998",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 7",
      "html": "<h3>From a presentation I did in 1998</h3><p><img src=\"/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/media/img-93792d6624762235.png\" alt=\"A 1998 slide in Czech on a spiral-notebook background, titled &quot;Co vám řekne adresa (URL)&quot; (&quot;What does the address (URL) tell you&quot;). It shows http://www.seznam.cz and http://www.microsoft.com with arrows labelled hypertext, organizace, země and doména, and top-level domains .uk, .ru, .sk, .edu, .org and .gov.\" loading=\"lazy\"></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=7\">View original slide 7</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-8",
      "title": "Browsers are HTML file viewers",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 8",
      "html": "<h3>Browsers are HTML file viewers</h3><p><img src=\"/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/media/img-27cb9bf8bc400f2f.png\" alt=\"A browser window: a tab titled example.html, an address bar showing a path to a file on the local drive, and the page text “This is an HTML file on my drive”.\" loading=\"lazy\"></p><p><img src=\"/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/media/img-649b38cf90485149.png\" alt=\"A file-manager window showing the folder “HTML test” with one file, example.html, a Chrome HTML Document of 56 bytes.\" loading=\"lazy\"></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=8\">View original slide 8</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-9",
      "title": "Web servers are just computers with folders",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 9",
      "html": "<h3>Web servers are just computers with folders</h3><p><code>https://myserver.com/index.html</code></p><p>=</p><p><code>https://myserver.com</code></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=9\">View original slide 9</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-10",
      "title": "Website address is a link to folders",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 10",
      "html": "<h3>Website address is a link to folders</h3><p><code>https://myserver.com/index.html</code></p><p>=</p><p><code>C://webserver/myservertopfolder/index.html</code></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=10\">View original slide 10</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-11",
      "title": "Sometime the file is in a database",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 11",
      "html": "<h3>Sometime the file is in a database</h3><p><code>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roffie-Microphones-Computer-Recording-Conference/dp/B0878VGZZ5/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1TJK0MT6QNWF3&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=webcam&amp;qid=1589195310&amp;sprefix=24+in+%2Caps%2C195&amp;sr=8-5</code></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=11\">View original slide 11</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-12",
      "title": "Sometimes, there’s other information in the link",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 12",
      "html": "<h3>Sometimes, there’s other information in the link</h3><p><code>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roffie-Microphones-Computer-Recording-Conference/dp/B0878VGZZ5/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1TJK0MT6QNWF3&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=webcam&amp;qid=1589195310&amp;sprefix=24+in+%2Caps%2C195&amp;sr=8-5</code></p><p><strong>=</strong></p><p><code>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roffie-Microphones-Computer-Recording-Conference/dp/B0878VGZZ5</code></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=12\">View original slide 12</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-13",
      "title": "Top level domains are addresses of computers",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 13",
      "html": "<h3>Top level domains are addresses of computers</h3><p><code>subserver.myserver.com/folderonmyserver/fileonmyserver.html</code></p><p><strong>=</strong></p><p><code>123.56.39.10:576/ folderonmyserver/fileonmyserver.html</code></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=13\">View original slide 13</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-14",
      "title": "What to know about domains",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 14",
      "html": "<h3>What to know about domains</h3><ul><li>Buy them via registrars</li><li>Different TLDs, different prices, different rules</li><li>Country TLDs are fun but expensive, capricious</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=14\">View original slide 14</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-15",
      "title": ".tv .so .ly .it .co",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 15",
      "html": "<h3>.tv .so .ly .it .co</h3><p><img src=\"/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/media/img-dfbb819bebd89695.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a Rest of World article, &quot;Why domain names are the new natural resource&quot;, subtitled &quot;Two letters at the end of a web address could be Tuvalu&#x27;s economic future.&quot; by George Siosi Samuels, 15 December 2020, with a colourful illustration of a globe.\" loading=\"lazy\"></p><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=15\">View original slide 15</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-16",
      "title": "Lessons learned",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 16",
      "html": "<h3>Lessons learned</h3><ul><li>10 years is nothing</li><li>Separate domain and hosting</li><li>Don’t let them expire</li><li>Transferring is a pain</li><li>Always think about moving</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=16\">View original slide 16</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-17",
      "title": "Handy jargon",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 17",
      "html": "<h3>Handy jargon</h3><ul><li>DNS</li><li>IP Address</li><li>MX Record</li><li>A Name and C Name</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=17\">View original slide 17</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-18",
      "title": "What’s new",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 18",
      "html": "<h3>What’s new</h3><ul><li>Wordpress Competition</li><li>Notion as a website host</li><li>Cloudflare</li><li>Reclaim Hosting</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=18\">View original slide 18</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-19",
      "title": "Slide 19",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 19",
      "html": "<ul><li>dominiklukes.net</li><li>techczech.net</li><li>metaphorhacker.net</li><li>researchity.net</li><li>czechly.com</li><li>…</li></ul><p><a href=\"/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains?mode=originals&amp;page=19\">View original slide 19</a></p>"
    }
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      "text": "What I learned from 20 years of giving domains as Christmas presents\nDominik.Lukes@ctl.ox.ac.uk"
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      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-02.png",
      "text": "Outline\n1. My story\n2. What you need to know\n3. What you need to avoid\n4. What to do with it\n5. Dilemmas\n6. What’s new"
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      "text": "My story\n1998: www.cuni.cz/~dlukes\n2000: bohemica.com\n2005: dominiklukes.net\n2010: strcprstskrskrk.com\n2020: 30 domains later"
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      "text": "Metaphorhacker.net"
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      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-05.png",
      "text": "Why I own 30 domains\nEmails\nWebsites\nGifts\nCreative Writing"
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      "number": 6,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-06.png",
      "text": "Key concepts people don’t get\nEvery web page is a file in a folder on a computer somewhere\nEvery computer on the internet has a unique number (IP Address)\nDomains are verbal shortcuts"
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      "text": "From a presentation I did in 1998"
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      "text": "Browsers are HTML file viewers"
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      "number": 9,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-09.png",
      "text": "Web servers are just computers with folders\nhttps://myserver.com/index.html\n=\nhttps://myserver.com"
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      "number": 10,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-10.png",
      "text": "Website address is a link to folders\nhttps://myserver.com/index.html\n=\nC://webserver/myservertopfolder/index.html"
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      "number": 11,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-11.png",
      "text": "Sometime the file is in a database\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Roffie-Microphones-Computer-Recording-Conference/dp/B0878VGZZ5/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1TJK0MT6QNWF3&dchild=1&keywords=webcam&qid=1589195310&sprefix=24+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-5"
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      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-12.png",
      "text": "Sometimes, there’s other information in the link\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Roffie-Microphones-Computer-Recording-Conference/dp/B0878VGZZ5/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1TJK0MT6QNWF3&dchild=1&keywords=webcam&qid=1589195310&sprefix=24+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-5\n=\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Roffie-Microphones-Computer-Recording-Conference/dp/B0878VGZZ5"
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      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-13.png",
      "text": "Top level domains are addresses of computers\nsubserver.myserver.com/folderonmyserver/fileonmyserver.html\n=\n123.56.39.10:576/ folderonmyserver/fileonmyserver.html"
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      "number": 14,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-14.png",
      "text": "What to know about domains\nBuy them via registrars\nDifferent TLDs, different prices, different rules\nCountry TLDs are fun but expensive, capricious"
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      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-15.png",
      "text": ".tv .so .ly .it .co"
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      "number": 16,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-16.png",
      "text": "Lessons learned\n10 years is nothing\nSeparate domain and hosting\nDon’t let them expire\nTransferring is a pain\nAlways think about moving"
    },
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      "number": 17,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-17.png",
      "text": "Handy jargon\nDNS\nIP Address\nMX Record\nA Name and C Name"
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      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-18.png",
      "text": "What’s new\nWordpress Competition\nNotion as a website host\nCloudflare\nReclaim Hosting"
    },
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      "number": 19,
      "image": "/readers/what-i-learned-from-20-years-of-giving-domains/pages/page-19.png",
      "text": "dominiklukes.net\ntechczech.net\nmetaphorhacker.net\nresearchity.net\nczechly.com\n…"
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