A hosting company offers domain privacy at a cost. This customer’s domain privacy expired and he came to us in confusion. Below is the conversation
Customer: What did I do to deserve this?
Tech: Hello, We offer free Domain Privacy for the primary domain on the account. Any other domain on the account costs $[dollar amount] per year for domain privacy.
Customer: [Sir,] If you can please tell me in what dimension domains actually exist – I will consider your request to renew my domain privacy. I understand the first 3 dimensions, and perhaps the 4th (time). I don’t like to buy something without fully understanding where it exists. Thank you, [Customer]
Tech: Hello, Domains exist in a place called Cyberspace. Here is a link that explains what they are and how they work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Domain_name_registration
Customer: Thank you. I think I am more comfortable now with the idea of cyberspace. Before I decide on my purchase, I just have one remaining question please: Are there smells in cyberspace? Both good one (i.e. roses, chocolate) and bad ones (i.e. farts, old socks).?
Tech: Cyberspace is just the place where the 1s and 0s exists so that our computers will talk to each other. So since it is just 1s and 0s I would doubt there would be smells.
Customer: Thanks, Now I understand a bit better. That said, are there any domain names that may be ticklish?
Tech: Negative. It’s a digital world where things don’t have substance. Thank you,
Customer: If I purchase the domain names of all the ingredients for a particular dish (i.e. eggs.com, butter.com, flour.com, darkchocolate.com, bakingpowder.com, brownsugar.com, salt.com) – do I also, without paying extra, own chocolatecake.com (which these ingredients make)?
Tech: Nope. Each domain is separate. Nice thought, though.