Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
Rick many thanks for your encouragement and apologies if I sounded as though I was abandoning,
I didn't worry about that, but you're very welcome. (That's a verbose, North American alternative to the much more sonorous, cheery, and concise Oz expression. ;-> )
the DIY spirit of the hacker community (original sense); what do you think of my idea that first I try to acquire the domain name, then have it hosted by a third party, then at some later time try immitating your example ?
I think it's a really splendid idea. First of all, it wins in the sense of accomplishing the easy parts and deferring the difficult parts. Also, it makes give you something that is yours and can be migrated. Which is to say, domains and related DNS are modular parts of the solution. You can use best of breed for each of the modular pieces. Implement each of them wherever best suits your needs, and bear in mind your freedom to move each to somewhere different.