This is True

Call Me

Tomer Krissi of Ramat Gan, Israel, says he’s a recovering Internet addict. One step in his recovery: he changed his name. To .com. “The Internet opened my mind,” says .com, 25, who has made the name change legal and even received new identity papers with his new surname. .com says his name makes his web site “my calling card for the whole world.” And just how might that help? “Say I meet a girl, and I don’t get her number. That could have been a missed opportunity, but now it won’t be because she’ll always know where to find me.” (Reuters) ...Her name, no doubt, will be Nan.net.


Publication Date: 29 April 2001

This story is in True's book collection, Volume 7.