I get contacted fairly often by people trying to buy the domain devin.com. If you're one of them, I'll spare you the trouble right away -- no. If you're another Devin, I run my own DNS, and would be willing to supply yourname.devin.com CNAME/MX records and possibly yourlastname@devin.com email forwarding to noncommercial entities, with absolutely no guarantees of reliability, QoS or longevity.

Here's Devin Pike, who had some disarming things to say about me. Also, I infer from his blog that his birthday is a day or two away from mine.

One-word domains are getting to be the minority nowadays; mostly it's attributable to disturbing levels of commercial infestation, but I'll skip the rant on that subject.  If you came looking for one of the fairly large number of Devin companies, here they are, in no particular order:

Devinn's Digital Dreamgirls
http://www.devinn.com
"Exotic Dancer" site, by appearances a frontend to the rest of a mid-sized porn site billed as "Digital Dreamgirls."  As an actual rarity, someone there went so far as to contact me in advance. Also I've been inadvertantly instructed to appear at various Los Angeles-area addresses bearing the results of my latest blood tests and wearing lingerie and party attire.

Devub and Drohan
devin-drohan.com

Devin Ankrum Entetainment (sic)
http://www.cookingwithromance.com
The URL amuses me quite a bit, but there's no site there.

Devin Associates
http://www.vacausa.com
Another amusing URL -- translated from Spanish, it could be taken to mean "Cow USA."  Nothing at the site but a 404.

Devin Cahn Associates
http://www.devincahn.com
Took me a minute to figure this one out, but it seems to be concerned with swimming pool products, and/or poorly-scanned pictures of women in swimsuits demonstrating.

Devin Company
devincompany.com

Devin Devasquez
http://www.devindevasquez.net
I suppose calling this a site pertaining to an "exotic dancer" would be being a bit charitable.  Nontheless, it did have some comical bits, which are worth quoting:

• "I was discovered by 'Playboy' while attending college at LSU in 1981 by David Chan, who was shooting 'Girls of the SEC.'"
• 2-second response: Girls of the Securities and Exchange Commission?
• 120-second response: Oh.  Southeastern Conference.  Something about basketball, maybe.
• "Exotic girls were very rare at that time in the modelling world."
• 2-second response: Gosh, and here I was thinking of exotic as a species from outside a contained ecosystem being artificially transplanted in.
• 4-second response: She needs a dictionary.
• "Cindy [Crawford] and I got a lot of work for [sic] we were considered 'sexy' in a market of catalog modeling."
• 5-second response: And maybe a grammar consultant.
• "I worked for... Playboy related magazines, such as... 'Girls of Winter' covers."
• 2-second response: Girls of winter.  Must be only... 2.8 billion of those, at present.  Or 1.4 billion, if they lose the title half the year.  'Girls of Winter on Pluto' might have a better logical backing to it.

The site also contains an area in which she, or some representative(s), auction off her undergarments.  Actually, I think this woman could do to gain some weight and go back to college.

Devin Consulting
http://www.devinconsulting.com
Yet another web-design company (YAWDC).  Actually, I suspect it's a single person, as with most such companies.  The "order Mary Kay products" link in the menu bar thing gave me a good laugh.

Devin Engineering
http://www.devindevin.com
An engineering firm.  I have a hard time deciding whether they specialize in any specific sort of engineering application, but most of their offerings do seem to have oilfield uses in common.

Devin International
http://www.devinintl.com
If you can manage it, load this page first without loading the images (a number of browsers now seem to be removing that ability).  The sheer genericism of the whole thing without the images is fairly amusing.  In fact, it's equally funny with the images, because you still can't detrmine hardly anything from the page, other than that their web designer (YAWDC) suffers from a lack of expertise, competence or common sense.  Pretty common YAWDC feature, that.