Like every web nerd, I’ve got a bunch of domain names (even though I’ve worked hard to reduce their number). I thought it would be fun to enumerate them.

Live

werd.io: The home of my blog since 2013. My old domain name, benwerd.com, also points here.

werd.cloud: My personal wiki, powered by Obsidian. I update it from time to time: I find it a useful way to record non-linear, non-blog-like thoughts and opinions.

werd.dev: My developer domain. I intend to turn this into a real site, but for now it just points to my GitHub profile

werd.work: My work domain. I will turn this into a portfolio, but just like my developer domain, for now it just redirects - in this case, to my LinkedIn profile.

ben.lol: I bought this domain for use with temporary, fun projects. Right now it hosts a work-in-progress text adventure based on my dreams, written in Inform 7. Almost every dream I have is based in a consistent universe with interconnected locations - so I made them into an interactive world. I add to this from time to time.

fatberg.org: Registered and built on a whim during a W3C meeting, this is the enterprise software stack of your dreams.

5405spainave.com: A work-in-progress site for the house we’re selling. Once we’ve got professional photographs and the house is on the market, I’ll bring the site to life and do a lot more linking to it.

On the bench

werd.tips: I think I bought this to host reviews.

werd.press: I think mostly I couldn’t resist the pun?

werdmuller.org: For future family use.

squirming.net: I’ve owned this domain name for nearly 25 years. It made more sense when I was 19. But there’s no way I’m letting go of it now.

humanist.tech: For a future blog that I never had the time to put together. But wouldn’t it be nice to have a space that talks about humanist tech projects?

bookhackers.com: Years ago I helped run an event about the future of publishing. I bought this to coincide with that. Maybe I should do something with it?