Ever since I can remember, my last name (which, btw, means money) has been an issue. It's too long, too Polish, and too convoluted to pronounce/remember. There's a saying around the interwebs, tl;dr, which means "too long; didn't read". Well, my last name = tl;dt; too long; didn't type.
Moving to adamp.com
As you might've noticed (unless you're reading this in a feed, subscribe if you aren't!), today my blog no longer resides at adampieniazek.com and instead is at the much more sensible and easy to remember adamp.com.
I've actually had adamp.com for a while. Interesting story there, I saved $450 on the adamp.com domain name. A squatting company tried selling it to me for $500! I told them, meh, they let it expire a month later, triggering my auto-buy-if-it-expires option at GoDaddy and bam, here we are.
For a while adamp.com would just redirect to myfirstnamemylastname.com but I figured why bother, adamp.com is the better domain in all aspects and I can convert adampieniazek.com into a landing page of sorts. If you head over to this blog's old home, you'll see there's a landing page up for the root domain but everything else is 301 redirected to here. I'll put up a tutorial on how I did that over at The 42nd Estate shortly.
Until then, if you spot any issues or problems, let me know. Hope you enjoy the new, minified domain!
Artwork credit: anonymous0910 | CC 2.0
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Post written on 2010-01-21.
3 comments
Congrats on the move. I've wanted to get myname.com for along time now but can't get the guy to budge. Grr…
Thanks Justin, that stinks about yourname.com, especially since the current
site there is quite stinky. I’d set up an auto-buy it if it becomes
available, never know when he might fall asleep at the wheel…
It's too bad that Justin didn't get hisname.com, that's a great name. I noticed all your olds posts come through my feed reader and noticed the change. I like it. I am interested in your 301 strategy, I am using an old one from my original file structure, that makes my htaccess file a little messy.
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