About nono.com / nono.io

What does nono.com do?

Nono.com is a website and a domain that I use as a sandbox to test and play with. I used to host other people's domains and email, and at one point I even had dial-in services, but those days are long gone.

Who is behind nono.com?

• I (Brian Cunnie) do most of the work and all the funding.
• Ping Mai provides backup DNS service & email service for which I can't thank him enough, and who convinced me to switch from qmail back to sendmail.
• Neil Sherman, who in a pinch has gone over to my house to reboot the servers, was the one who originally suggested the domain name (nono.com).

When did nono.com go into operation?

June 21, 1996.

Why "nono.com"? What were you looking for in the name?

I was looking for the following in the domain name:

• It had to be a name that was not already registered.
• It had to be as short as possible (people hate to type in really long domain names). All the two-letter and most of the three-letter combinations had been taken long ago (e.g., even microsoft couldn't get "ms.com"), so I was willing to settle for a good four-letter name. But I wouldn't take anything longer than five letters.
• It had to be easy to remember. Something like "rxpq.com" was completely unacceptable.
• It had to be easy to spell over the phone, preferably so understandable that spelling would be unnecessary. "b4icu.com" was bad because the spelling could be mis-interpreted in so many ways (e.g. "beforeiseeyou.com" or "b4iseeu.com" or "beforeicu.com").