Monday, October 22, 2007
00:13 by FoxTwo I had always been thinking about getting a domain name for myself. I am known in many circles by 2 common monikers - foxtwo, and elite.
For obvious reasons, "elite.whatever" is always taken, and I don't really fancy a "elite.sg" domain. Let's just call it paranoia that I would prefer not to register a domain here in Singapore, even though the servers I host my stuff on might be outside of Singapore. Of course, that's speaking in a personal capacity. If I had a business, I would register it in Singapore if the business is based here.
Anyway, I was just talking to xinyun the other day about domains and stuff. Then she asked me why I never registered a domain, given that my "blog" had existed for well over 7 years (and yeah not very widely read cos I don't really promote it). I said they're all taken. But, while talking to her I did a domain check again on my usual 2 monikers. Surprise surprise! One of them's been released, and it was back in Feb 2007!
I jumped on the chance and got http://www.foxtwo.org registered for only US$7.00! What can I say, godaddy.com gives good deals... 10 years ago it would have cost US$50.00 for a domain name, and even though the amount seem small, it's something I would SERIOUSLY consider before I break out my wallet.
So anyway, I spent the weekend configuring the domain, and slowly switching all the stuff I use for my blog(s) over to the new domain. Stuff like Blogrush, Widgetbucks etc, they need to be pointing to my new domain now, so that even if I decide to switch hosts later, I don't need to re-vist them all to re-configure them.
I was half-torn in Technorati though - I *could* register a new username - FoxTwo - but my old username - ELiTe - already has some history (not much, but some), so I did. In the end, I didn't. I just claimed a new blog at the new address and resetted all the stats for this one blog to zero.
Now, I'm contemplating something I have thought of in 2004, but never got around to doing - redoing my templates of my website and blog. They look positively archaic right now... and I did 'em back in 1997 or so... wow, 10 years already huh!
00:13 by FoxTwo I had always been thinking about getting a domain name for myself. I am known in many circles by 2 common monikers - foxtwo, and elite.
For obvious reasons, "elite.whatever" is always taken, and I don't really fancy a "elite.sg" domain. Let's just call it paranoia that I would prefer not to register a domain here in Singapore, even though the servers I host my stuff on might be outside of Singapore. Of course, that's speaking in a personal capacity. If I had a business, I would register it in Singapore if the business is based here.
Anyway, I was just talking to xinyun the other day about domains and stuff. Then she asked me why I never registered a domain, given that my "blog" had existed for well over 7 years (and yeah not very widely read cos I don't really promote it). I said they're all taken. But, while talking to her I did a domain check again on my usual 2 monikers. Surprise surprise! One of them's been released, and it was back in Feb 2007!
I jumped on the chance and got http://www.foxtwo.org registered for only US$7.00! What can I say, godaddy.com gives good deals... 10 years ago it would have cost US$50.00 for a domain name, and even though the amount seem small, it's something I would SERIOUSLY consider before I break out my wallet.
So anyway, I spent the weekend configuring the domain, and slowly switching all the stuff I use for my blog(s) over to the new domain. Stuff like Blogrush, Widgetbucks etc, they need to be pointing to my new domain now, so that even if I decide to switch hosts later, I don't need to re-vist them all to re-configure them.
I was half-torn in Technorati though - I *could* register a new username - FoxTwo - but my old username - ELiTe - already has some history (not much, but some), so I did. In the end, I didn't. I just claimed a new blog at the new address and resetted all the stats for this one blog to zero.
Now, I'm contemplating something I have thought of in 2004, but never got around to doing - redoing my templates of my website and blog. They look positively archaic right now... and I did 'em back in 1997 or so... wow, 10 years already huh!
Technorati:
Labels: domain, godaddy.com
