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title = "What's a \"betalupi?\""
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author = "Mark"
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slug = "whats-a-betalupi"
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[es]: https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky
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[*Stellaris*]: https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/stellaris/about
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[Arabic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arabic_star_names
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[wiki-betalupi]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Lupi
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# What's a "betalupi?"
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Beta Lupi is a solar system on the [_Endless Sky_][es] galaxy map,
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which is the first place I look whenever I need to name a server.
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Stellar names (especially those of [Arabic] origin) make pretty good hostnames: they're meaningless (in English), they sound interesting, and the "hyperlanes" that connect them in titles like [_Endless Sky_][es] and [*Stellaris*] look a lot like a network topology.
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Beta Lupi also happens to be a real star in the southern constellation of Lupus ([wiki][wiki-betalupi]), but that's not particularly important.
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A snippet of the [_Endless Sky_][es] map is below.
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<br/>
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**In other words:** Try finding a `.com` domain that...
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- Isn't already taken
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- Doesn't sound awful
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- Isn't owned by a scalper that's selling it for $300"
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<br/>
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<img alt="betalupi map" src="/assets/img/betalupi.png"></img>
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