I have been gezi for many, many years. Back in college it was a friend who mangled my initials G and Z into 'gezi' - that does not really work in German and neither in English. But it stuck.

My first login to a computer was gezi and when a mere mortal could register his own domain I got gezi.com.

Years later I found out that gezi is 'travel' in Turkish and that made this domain worth something - unfortunately not quite as much as the plain old 'travel.com' which has been sold the last time for several million.

If I would not currently entertaining the idea that I am short on money I would have never even thought about parting with this domain which was kind-a me.

Two years ago somebody dared offering me about 50 kilo-Dollar for the domain, but I was greedy and not so convinced yet that I need money and so I boldly asked for 150 kilo - - - which I did not get.

But during these last two years I had time enough to get into bed with the idea, not to have that domain any more, and when somebody came along and made me another offer, I played this one against the one from two years ago.

Did not quite get the 50k, but 25k in addition to a vacation in Turkey. So, the money is in escrow, the transfer of the domain is done and now the name server changes have to propagate through the internet cloud.

Currently I can still see the old GeZi World, and the image here in this blog will be a historical document.

But probably tomorrow morning after I get up there will be a new page showing over which I have no control whatsoever. But I can not give up that name 'gezi' completely and neither the site behind this name - so now there is a new GeZi World with all the old content. And the new name - geziworld.com - might become interesting for another Turkish travel agency in the future, right?

In case you have some time to burn, visit a very old site in the internet (one that even pre-dates newciv.org) but with a new name now. Historical parts to visit are: