Acquiring a Domain Name

  • Verisign helps to maintain the security, stability and resiliency of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the internet
    • They join, fund and support efforts led by ICANN and other industry groups to combat DNS abuse
    • Under our Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the .com registry must remain content neutral – ensuring equal access to .com domain names for all legal website content, regardless of viewpoint. The Cooperative Agreement also underscores ICANN’s high specifications for operational performance, as set out in the .com Registry Agreement.
    • we are then able to perform the more visible aspects of our business, providing registry services for .com and our other popular TLDs. At wholesale prices regulated by the U.S. government for .com, we serve the needs of over 2,000 ICANN accredited retail registrars who, in turn, sell domain names to individual or business end-users.
    • Find a Registrar to purchase a domain name (cannot buy directly from Verisign; they are a wholesaler)
  • Domain Name Registrars:

No Code Platforms

Wix

  • Nice Figma- or Canva-like GUI to tweak the website design
  • Buying a domain with Wix (domain name: anilkeshwani.com) priced at ÂŁ29.30 for 2 years (ÂŁ14.65/yr)
    • checked on 2025-04-03
    • According to Grok: evidence leans toward Wix buying from registrars like Network Solutions or Tucows when acting as a reseller, especially for initial registrations. If Wix is the registrar, they register directly with the registry, like Verisign for .com domains

My Approach

  • Jekyll - simple Jekyll blog Ă  la Karpathy, before he moved to Ê•â€ąáŽ„â€ąÊ”Â Bear
    • minima theme because it’s clean; I tweaked mine per my taste and for readability (font thinner and darker than out of the box)
  • HUGO - fast; written in Go; idk personally my Jekyll blog and Quartz-hosted vault are pretty speedy
  • Quartz for hosting the Digital Garden
  • Ê•â€ąáŽ„â€ąÊ”Â Bear Blog || HermanMartinus/bearblog - Free, no-nonsense, super fast blogging.
    • “It is more like Substack than Hugo.”
    • Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn’t possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog. There are a few Hugo themes that use Bear’s stylesheet which you can find on the Hugo theme repository if you really want to self host something that looks like Bear :)