● 10.21.21

Gemini version available ♊︎

●● Gemini Protocol and Gemini Space Are Not a Niche; for Techrights, Gemini Means Half a Million Page Requests a Month

Posted in Site News at 2:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Image: Techrights on gemini://

Summary: Techrights on gemini:// has become very big and we’ll soon regenerate all the pages (about 37,500 of them) to improve clarity, consistency, and general integrity

THOSE who follow our work over Git will know that we’re actively improving page conversions. Images, for example, are being transformed into texts that describe what’s in those images. Some time soon we’ll upload new versions of all the pages.

↺ over Git

The above suggests we may be the biggest Gemini capsule among almost 1,700 known ones (new screenshot is taken from Lupa’s pages, and those are based on a spider which limits page traversal to a maximum of 10,000). We keep growing in terms of scale and traffic with about half a million page requests over gemini:// projected for the month of October. We didn’t anticipate a growth so fast.

As an aside, we’ll soon turn 15. It all started as “boycottnovell” in the winter of 2006 when I was finishing my Ph.D. and had some spare time to muck about online, writing about all sorts of technology issues whilst posting in mailing lists, USENET (lots of that at the time!), and getting involved in a number of Free software projects, way before “Social [Control] Media” was a ‘thing’.

The domain “boycottnovell” is very clearly self-limiting (but we keep it to avoid links breaking or what’s sometimes known as ‘Web rot’/’Internet rot’); we succeeded at “boycott[ing] novell” (this was the original goal) and in 2010 Novell was dead (sold), scuttled to pieces and relegated into an ashtray of history, so in early 2010 we moved to “techrights” — basically the same site and similar goals with a broader, all-in-one/over-encompassing name. The choice of name was Tracy’s (the webhost at the time). As per the records, our 15th anniversary is on the 7th of November:

Domain Name: boycottnovell.com

Registry Domain ID: 661408793_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN

Registrar WHOIS Server: WHOIS.ENOM.COM

Registrar URL: WWW.ENOM.COM

Updated Date: 2021-10-18T05:01:26.00Z

Creation Date: 2006-11-07T14:21:00.00Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2023-11-07T14:21:12.00Z

Registrar: ENOM, INC.

Registrar IANA ID: 48

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Domain Status: renewPeriod https://www.icann.org/epp#renewPeriod

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Registrant Email: https://tieredaccess.com/contact/119ef4c8-9c57-483a-ad5a-8c58d0aa12dc

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Name Server: NS5.CATALYST2.NET

Name Server: NS6.CATALYST2.NET

As indicated above, days ago I renewed this domain’s registration for another 2 years (it’s not cheap; it’s about 50 euros) because we expect to grow and thrive for years to come. COVID-19 and lock-downs have had almost no impact on us. In Gemini it’s not simple to have two domain names (or subdomains) linking to the same capsule because of TLS, but in theory we could also have gemini.boycottnovell.com (though boycottnovell.com predates Gemini by over a decade).

We don’t plan anything special for the anniversary; instead we’ll try to stay productive as we soon exceed 32,000 blog posts in total. █

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