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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (78)	2/13/2001 11:04:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 163

I really can't wait for the right name to come to me - I've been waiting for almost a year and it just isn't coming. And I've sent a deposit to my web sight designer, and I think everything needs to be set up with the domain name already picked out, so the time has come. For some reason this feels like getting married. I have demonstrated to my heart's content - finally - that satellites are not and probably have never been made of steel. Sputnik was aluminum, and as far as I can tell aluminum was the material of choice until recently, when graphite epoxy compositions became used for some purposes. So no matter how kewl steelmoons.com sounds, it just doesn't work. I have also explored whether silicon is still being used in satellites, and the high-end communications satellites are now using gallium arsenide for the solar panels. But gallium-arsenide moons doesn't grab me. I just registered aluminummoons.com. I looked at hundreds of possible domain names today, and over the course of the last year or so probably thousands. You may find it amusing that allthegoodonesaretaken.com is . . . . taken. So is igiveup.com. It's either satellite-internet.com, hyphen and all, or satellitegazette.com, satellitepost.com, satellect.com, satellingo.com, or aluminummoons.com. I've probably got a few weeks, and then I guess if the right one ever comes to me I can do some kind of rollover.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (78)	2/13/2001 11:20:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 163

By the way, thanks a lot for helping me look. I really appreciate it. Netsatnews.com does sound interesting. One of the things I've noticed is that a lot of the better names, e.g., Satnetnews.com, are taken but don't have a web site. So the sensible thing to do may be to monitor them and wait to see if they are renewed. I'm sure the owners would be more than thrilled to sell them at an outrageous price! Here is a question - heliotrope is taken, so is heliotropic and heliotropion. Girasole and girasol are taken. But girasola is not taken. How about girasola.com?