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Courtney Conlogue is on the .Surf program. And the mean wrap program. Photo: courtneyconlogue.surf
The Internet, right?! So big. So unruly. So gnarls. And somehow, even from the beginning, surfing has been tied to it. People “surf” the Internet somehow. As if riding weightlessly atop ethereal natural energy moving through salt water is similar in some way to writing angry comments on political Facebook posts and Insta-stalking your crushes. Oh so similar!
But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its redeeming qualities. Like getting directions instantaneously everywhere. Or always winning a fact-based argument via Google. A not-so-distant third on that list, at least for surfers, is that there is now actually a .surf domain name. No more boring .com. Nope. .Surf all the way, baby. Your name dot surf. It’s a real thing. Because if you Internet, and most people Internet (hard), you can snag a .surf domain name. And since it’s a relatively new development, a lot of the most common/valuable names are still available. IE: iliketo.surf will not cost you $37 million dollars. Yet.
Surfer Kyle Thiermann scooped up Kyle.surf. Courtney Conlogue snagged courtney.surf…and her nickname seatiger.surf. Quiksilver and Roxy snagged their .surf domains too.
A .surf domain name could replace your existing .com domain, but you can also use them together. If you don’t want to break anyone’s .com bookmarks, but you can tell that .surf looks better on a sticker, no worries! You can have both.
Quiksilver’s Nicolas Foulet, Global Head of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing said: “At Quiksilver, we appreciate how important digital is for the worldwide surfing community. By creating these brand new quiksilver.surf websites like quik.surf and roxy.surf [for our sister brand], we can point our fans to really cool, new content and the short [domain] names make it really easy to remember.”
“I’m proud that as a community, surf culture has its own dedicated online home,” said Conlogue.
It’s pretty crazy that surfing has a designated space on something as infinite as the Internet. But it kind of makes sense. The ocean’s a big place, too.
