I had just happened to be the next ‘Casey’ who was interested in staking the same digital claim that Kathleen had, and the domain became mine.
#MASTER OF MY DOMAIN SEINFELD EPISODE REGISTRATION#
When I next sent my inquiry to the technical contact on the registration record, they informed me of Kathleen’s recent demise, and transferred the domain to me. There was no web site, no email addresses, just a WHOIS registration record with a contact name and email address to whom my inquires went unanswered. Sadly, Kathleen Creighton passed away just a few months after she registered ‘’, before she ever had an opportunity to make any use of it. He eventually relinquished it to McDonalds in return for a $3,500 donation to a Brooklyn school for computers and internet access. He ended that article inviting readers to email him at to offer suggestions on what he should do with the domain. To demonstrate his point, Quittner registered the domain ‘’ in the process of educating the McDonalds Corporation what it was and why they should care. That’s what writer Joshua Quittner found and reported in his October ‘94 WIRED magazine article “ Billions Registered ”, in which he described the surprising number of Fortune 500 companies who had not registered their domain names, many of which had no idea what a domain name was or why they would want one. But speak of an internet ‘domain name’, and you’d likely draw a blank stare. It was a time when the word, domain, would for many first bring to mind an episode of Seinfeld which added ‘master of my domain’ into our modern lexicon. And, she was a tech savvy online pioneer who staked a digital claim on the domain name ‘’ when she registered it in August of 1994. She was the BBS/online service reviewer for the San Francisco Bay Area computer newspaper MicroTimes, and a contributor to WIRED magazine’s Street Cred section. Kathleen was well known on one of the earliest online communities, The Well (her WELL username was ‘casey’). Her name was Kathleen Creighton, but she went by ‘Casey’, presumably a reference to her initials.
– Jerry, George and Elaine, in “ The Contest “, Seinfeld, aired 11/18/92
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