I’m Transferring fuzzyorange.com

[deirdre]

Note: I’m posting this because some of you happen to have a fuzzyorange.com email address for me deep in your archives.

It has already ceased to work.

I registered this domain in 2001, and had used it for a while, but it’s really just been a spam trap for me in recent years.

The more I think about what I want to do, the less the name fits.

The source of the name wasn’t, as you might think, related to our propensity for ginger cats (which, btw, is a coincidence, not a design). It was some smartass line about (stock) options trading back when I was studying financial derivatives.

There’s a Scottish consultancy that’s made a great brand out of the name Fuzzyorange, and so I offered it to them. I wasn’t looking for money. I just felt it fit them better than it fit me.

Also, no one pressured me, approached me trying to buy me out, or acted uncool in any way. Given the assumptions when bigger name swallows up an individual’s or small company’s domain name, I also wanted to say that.

For a while after our cat died, I used the following picture of Scruffy and Captain Jack on the site, so here it is again. I love this photo. Miss them both, our little fuzzy oranges.

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