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The New Website

Submitted by Jamie on Friday, 13 March 2009No Comment

One of the things that’s on the mind(s) of many of my visitors is the new website that I’m supposed to be getting in a week or so. The truth of the matter is that the website I want is already registered by a domain scalper. This person has had the domain for nearly four years now, and they’re not doing anything with it. However, Dennis and I found another name that fits me perfectly. =)

With the arrival of a new website comes some revalations. No, I haven’t done anything sinister. Yet. ;) What this means is I will probably put this blog on hiatus as well as close down several of my other accounts online. I won’t be renewing my TypePad account, and I doubt that I will use Vox or my journal as often. I have too many things going at once online. I don’t know anyone else who has as many sites or projects as I do.

I will be keeping my Flickr because that’s pro until next year sometime. I’m also going to be keeping my journal because that’s permanent. I’m letting go many of my domains. I don’t care what happens to them anymore. Dennis says I need to limit what I do online, and I agree with him.

Just incase the domain scalper doesn’t let go of the .com I want, I have a .org picked out, though the .org isn’t as unique as the .com I want. The .com is actually the only one of its kind that is registered at the moment, and with the exception of a .net that was registered a while back, it doesn’t look like anyone else has thought of registering that name. I’m not going to post what either of those names are until I secure them. The last time I did anything like that, someone registered the username I wanted. It’s too bad that I can’t trust people, but that’s just the way it is.

So why do this?

Well, .nu’s are very expensive to keep. They’re about $30 per year to renew, and while .orgs are about $15 per year, ultimately, I want that .com that I had picked out. .coms are very cheap to register and renew. I wish I could keep my .nu, but with just the one credit card, we have to cut down on expenses. I love my .nu and I wish I could keep it, but I don’t know if I will be able to. I will say that if I get the .com I want, I will never let it go.

With the new website coming along, I will probably put this blog on hiatus. No worries though, because I will be linking to my new blog/domain when I get it. I may toss people from my other site over here before I buy the .com or .org. I don’t know yet.

I need to go play the Sims 2 and relax a little. All of this talk about having too much online isn’t helping me any.

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