welcome to durso.org

Would you be interested in sharing durso.org for your web site and/or mailing address?

The company netidentity would have you pay $24.95-$100/year for an e-mail address of durso.com.  Nameplanet as of today (19 Nov 05) offers durso.net for $185.  I bid $50 if you wish to outbid me, but hey thats approximately what I paid for durso.org in 1999.  Today I see domains for as little as $2.50/yr.

Owing the name outright means that I can set up fairly unlimited e-mail, web and/or other servers on the internet. As its cheap and simple enough however I choose to use other peoples hosting equipment over buying the necessary connection onto the internet and configuring and powering the many necessary servers.  I can publish a number of web pages, sub domains and have 200 mailboxes.  Further, I can extend the mail/web forwarding service to others without additional cost and I hope little configuration.  I have done this for my immediate family and would be happy to do it for you provided that you meet the following criteria:

• You must have some claim to the name durso, be it your surname, first name, nickname, club, organization, business, or whatever.  Please don't consider this for a generic forwarding or method of anonymity.  Try an automated services such as provided by granitecanyon for this purpose.
• You must not abuse nor degrade the domain.  D'Urso is my family name.  It is the name I do business under, and share my interests with.  Do not post materials, business, interests or services that are sultry, illegal, unethical, questionably immoral, a nuisance, or extremely embarrassing on a page derived from this domain.  The same goes auto redirection, and as the name may be used for email address.  I won’t necessarily be monitoring other people's pages, but do appreciate being alerted to abuse.
• You will forgive me for allowing you to get yourself into trouble and not hold me responsible for any damage that occurs on the world wide web.  The WWW is a public place, surprise!, and just like any other public place there are creeps and just many people you will not agree with.  Pages on this site can be hacked into and vandalized, what private information you choose to share of your personal information could be compromised, and you could very well increase your spam load with an email forwarder or another email box @durso.org.  I will do whatever I can to help you out, but you must always remember that (1) you are responsible for your own safety (thankfully this is in regards to mostly just your image and other intangibles such as money), (2) I do not know everything about internet security, safety and how to keep us perfectly safe, and (3) even if I did I just can't monitor this site 24/7/365.  When my client PayPal (an internet payments service) gets hacked into and I am somehow knowledgeable or responsible for that break in, I may get a call at 2 a.m. from the operations staff  to help fix the problem.  If durso.org gets compromised hopefully I can quickly detect the problem and shut it down.  It will be corrected if and when I have the spare time.  All this being said, I spend an inordinate amount of time on this public forum that is the internet, and find that it is marvelous way of sharing information, as is the motto at PayPal - "People are basically good".
  
• Finally, you must accept that I am the owner of the domain and have final say on all matters.  I may withdraw my offer to forward or host anyone anytime for any reason.  Further name resolution or forwarding service may fail due to neglect or service outages.  I shall retain the right to sell or transfer the underlying domain.

Caveats aside I recommend that you use this or another forwarding service for your e-mail and web content.  For years I have used my professional ACM account to forward to my current mail account.  Mail, internet service provider(ISP)s and world wide web servers for me at least seem to change annually.  You can avoid the headache of having to mail everyone with your new mailbox, collect your e-mail from a former ISP or keep track on which obsolete addresses are still forwarding your mail.

Most importantly its nice to have a good name in the first place!  chris@durso.org and http://chris.durso.org is a lot better than anythingAvailable452@yahoo.com or http://www.mindspring.com/~dursofw/.  The domain name is after all an abstraction to the internet addressing for human readability.

Links to www.durso.org directly or indirectly through this page would be appreciated, as they will increase hits through your site and as my site gets sucked up through the various robots employed by search engine companies.

If you are interested send me a note explaining who you are and what names or web addresses would like to use (e.g. yourName@durso.org, yourWebSite.durso.org).
 

Christopher D’Urso
chris@durso.org

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