Apparently there are more James Chows on the internet than I thought!

Have you wondered why I’m using James-Chow.com (with the dash in the middle) instead of JamesChow.com as my domain name?

Actually I REALLY wanted to register JamesChow.com as my domain name because instead of simply saying that my website is at “James Chow dot com,” I have to

“Hey, my website is www dot James DASH Chow dot com, remember the dash in the middle ya!”

Which is very long and annoying to say

But there’s nothing I could do… If you google search for “james chow” you get a movie guy James Chow, a doctor James Chow, an author James Chow and many other MEs!!!

Simply go to www.JamesChow.com (without the dash) and you’ll even wonder what the hell that page’s for… But no doubt the guy has his reasons. Sigh…

Of course some of you might say I can use other TLDs like .org, .net, .biz and so on, but guess what? Even JamesChow.net and JamesChow.org are registered to someone else leh!

So the remaining ones are .biz, .name, .info and the rest. In this case, I would rather stick to the “Hey, my website is www dot James DASH Chow dot com, remember the dash in the middle ya!” than having to say:

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“Hey my website is at www dot James Chow dot biz.”

“Dot what ah?”

“James Chow dot biz, biz stands for business loh.”

“Huh… ? Dot bis? Got such thing meh, never heard before la!”

“Got lah, actually there is such a thing. “*swt*

“It’s not a real website hor?”

“Of course it is, I just gave you a URL, didn’t I? ”

“Eh I thought websites ends with .com 1?

“Err… Not necessarily 1, actually…”

“Ok, I will go back and see see la!”

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… And then he/she goes back and types www.jameschow.bis… =.=” Which doesn’t exist at all!

Actually this may really happen because I know a few friends who really think that websites only end with .com!

But maybe I should be happy with my www.James-Chow.com ler, cuz it’s quite easy to remember and identifies myself accurately! Not bad also mah… Just that next time…

Remember the DASH in the middle ya!”

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