Thought I would let everyone know that we picked up extra8.com yesterday.  Unfortunately an automated server registered .net and .org.  This just totally reminds me that the domain name system is totally a crap shoot when it comes to acquiring domains that are currently registered.  We will continue to use ExtraEight.com as our primary, but those who are lost and like to type a shorter address will be able to find us.

I am also in the middle of setting up email for each of the contributers.  I decided against Windows Live Custom Domains because they include adverts in the bottom of every email like hotmail does, they also require you to sign in every 30 days, only offer 250MB of storage after starting at 25MB, no RSS feed options, and no aliases.  While I like Windows Live Messenger much better, Windows Live Mail needs a lot of work before I think about using it again.  Google has a custom domain option, Gmail for your domain.  I would like to try it out, but I don’t think they offer domain aliasing, which would be a nice feature now that we have two different domain spellings.  Anyway, I continue to poke around at Squirrelmail and RoundCube to see if I can add IMAP to RSS feeds for simple email checking.