REDdimension

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REDdimension website

REDdimension is the primary internet domain and website of Jon Reddick and his family.

The name of the domain was decided after exhausting several other choices which were not available.

Shortly before choosing a name to register, Jon had been re-watching the Carl Sagan PBS series, Cosmos, and had many of the concepts and terms from the program fresh in his mind. The first choice was "redshift," which refers to the apparent chromatic distortion of an object toward the red end of the visible spectrum as it approaches the speed of light moving toward you. Jon thought a reference to the speed of light might be appropriate for an internet identity. But the name "redshift.com" had already been taken (today it is an internet services company).

The next choice was "blueshift" which refers to the same phenomenon, but refers to the distortion as the object moves away from you at near the speed of light. But "blueshift.com" was also already taken (today it is an HR firm).

Jon liked the idea of including "red" in the domain to mirror his last name, so he then explored other scientific and astronomical terms coupled with the word, "red."

Origin

Jon first experienced the pain of changing an email address (including notifying all friends & family, changing all subscriptions and updating all online services) in the fall of 1998 when changing from his first ever address with Tallahassee Freenet to his new "permanent" ISP, Vistech.

The difficulty and frustration of that process, combined with early forays into freelance website design and the need for a web host for those projects, led him to the conclusion that it was time to choose a truly permanent online identity and residence for him and his family which could be kept for a lifetime.

On September 16, 1998, reddimension.com was first registered with Network Solutions, LLC (then the only licensed registrar for top-level internet domain names) for two years for $70.

During those first two years, domain name registration become decentralized and Network Solutions's monopoly on the market had been dissolved. Jon transferred reddimension.com to Dotster.com, where it is still maintained to this day for $14.95 per year.