Despite years of hearing the term domain name propagation, it still reminds me vaguely of gardening. However, I am astonished that, a little over 24 hours after I made the request to Network Solutions, our domain name has been propagated to our little corner of the Internet.
We have had this domain name for about nine years now. When we got an internet dialup account in 1994, Jack decided that he wanted us to have a domain name. (Things were so primitive then that Jack took our desktop computer down to the ISP office so they could install the software we would need.) I thought it was a complete waste to get the stardel.com domain, but have to admit that the domain name has survived four or five different service providers over the years. I have had my stardel email address for the same length of time, which may not be a record, but is a very long time. Of course the downside is that it is on every spam list in the universe, since I was sending email before anyone even thought about protecting their email address. I can still remember my shock at the first p*rn*graphic email I received.