
From the "About Us" page...
how the hell did this happen?
We're still trying to figure that out ourselves. In a nutshell, back in the bad old days, the big brother-like monopoly that controlled domain names (Network Solutions) imposed their own ridiculous standards on registrations. Then one day the sun broke through the clouds, and to the joy of freaks and miscreants everywhere, the rules changed. All hell had, indeed, broken loose.
Flush with excitement and half drunk, we snapped up a dozen domains, threw together a crappy web site and uploaded it to a crappy little cobalt server we "liberated" from the crappy company we worked for. When no one was looking we jacked it in to the network (thanks Donald and Jay), kicked it a couple times to get it going, then turned out the lights in the office and went home.
Stunning lack of foresight is fun, but it makes for a lousy email service. Within weeks we had to replace the cobalt with a real server, and began the never-ending task of writing the scripts - and there are a lot of them - and managing the database that runs the pimp behind the scenes.