What's in ANAME?

On Monday, May 23rd 2011, I signed up for my first domain, thega.me.uk. I promptly set up an email server, and my housemate at the time sent me my first email: As true today as it was thenFor a reason I cannot remember, Blacknight was my registrar of choice, and my domain registration was with them until earlier this month. Why did I change from a service I had happily been using for over 15 years? It’s GitHub’s fault. GitHub Pages If you work in tech, GitHub’s recent instability will probably have been an inconvenience to you at some point. GitHub ‘real’ all-time uptime (credit Marek Šuppa)I have been using GitHub pages for a couple of years now, as a free service; so it seems hard to complain. That, and my personal blog is not the most critical site on the internet, so some downtime should not be a concern for me. Except I have also been going through the free digital services I use and trying to move towards services which I can pay for. “If you’re not paying for the product, you…