Note: Cross-post from my @holovision Hive account.
Anybody remember old-school Disney Channel back in the good old days? Remember Kim Possible? Remember Even Stevens? That movie Cadet Kelly?
Did you know that we went to the Moon in 1969? Not 1968, but a year later. @lasseehlers believes NASA faked the whole event but this song proves it happened.
A few months ago I became aware that the domain christyromano.com hadn't been renewed. I waited a few months and the christyromano.com domain sat there unclaimed by Christy Carlson Romano or anybody else. When Namecheap had a 50% off .com registration holiday special; just like Francis Lurman I knew a good deal when I saw it and seized the opportunity. Then, I created the @iamnotchristy account on Hive and connected christyromano.com to the blockchain using @engrave. Voilà! Web3 unofficial fan site for Christy Carlson Romano. It's still new and needs some more work.
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As far as I can tell Christy Carlson Romano still has christycarlsonromano.com registered. According to the WHOIS record for christycarlsonromano.com it is still active. Unless it is renewed again, the domain's registration will expire on June 26, 2024.
Christycarlsonromano.com has been registered since 2003. From the Wayback Machine the first archive for the christyromano.com domain I now own is April 4, 2001.
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Between then and June 2004 as far as I can tell from archive.org snapshots of christyromano.com the domain website was "Coming Soon". The first archived snapshot of an actual website on christyromano.com is June 10, 2004. Looking at christycarlsonromano.com on the wayback machine the two domains seem to have roughly become active around the same time mirroring the same content.
The Wayback Machine appears to have archived the most changes between 2004 through 2006. Between 2006 and 2009 it seems updates were fewer and ended around 2009 when both domains went dark. Except for a brief window in mid-2019 both domains function were effectively defunct.
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I don't know why the christyromano.com domain was abandoned. It appears that ever since Web 2.0 started gaining steam Christy Carlson Romano focused her attention more on social media and hardly any on her centralized websites. Maybe she has something planned that only needs one domain without mirroring the content. Maybe it had something to do with the recent actors' strike and cutting back on expenses. Who knows?
Anyway, christyromano.com has found its way from being a centralized official celebrity website to a decentralized unofficial fan website running on the Hive blockchain. Since The Walt Disney Company seems determined to destroy its own reputation maybe some nostalgic fans will want to reminisce and also find their way to Hive.