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Most of you are familiar with domain name extensions like .com, .net, and .gov. In addition to these are extensions which are specific to countries (.us – USA, .uk – Great Britain, .ca – Canada, .cn – China, and so on). Knowing this, I decided to exercise the ridiculous nerdy yet creative side of my mind.

Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, has an interesting domain name: http://ma.tt Obviously, you see how his first name is his entire website’s name (with the addition of a period in between). The “.tt” extension is actually for Trinidad and Tobago, so he had to register the domain name by wiring money to the country after making sure that “ma” was not taken. After first trying to do something similar (like http://ris.hi), I discovered that “.hi” is not an extension. I got to thinking, and then it finally hit me. My future title will be Dr. Rishi Kumar, M.D., so if “.md” was a possible country extension, then I would be victorious – God bless Moldova’s country extension.

Then, I wanted the shortest but most relevant name possible. What better than my initials? Since the registration price is rather expensive, no one else had purchased “rk.md”, so it was a perfect match. The entire website is only five characters long compared to the fifteen characters of my previous rishi-kumar.com, so in my pursuit for higher simplicity in life, this was fantastic.

This also means that at some point, I’ll shut down rishi-kumar.com; therefore, please update your bookmarks to correspond with http://rk.md.

If you have any other site improvement suggestions, let me know!

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