Trying Google Apps for a domain

I signed up for Google Apps for one of my personal domains this morning. I'm tapping my foot now while the CNAME record goes through and Google verifies I own the domain.

It occurred to me after hearing about Google's plans to build social networking on top of its existing properties that Apps already provides something like a closed-circuit network if you wanted to use it that way, a little like Marc Canter's PeopleAggregator .

I thought I might use this as my header.

Oops. Nope. Realized almost immediately that Google marks are not allowed, so I guess I'll have to take out that "M." Don't suppose they can trademark the use of different faces and primary colors within a word, though.

Later: You have to mess with MX records, then wait up to 48 hours for them to resolve, too. I'm not very adept at those sorts of things, always seem to get one little thing wrong and I never know which little thing. It's still very arcane, isn't it? I suppose that's the way the organizational mail server admins like to keep it.