Last year, during a particularly hectic period, I neglected my email inbox and regrettably overlooked several warnings from my domain registrar about the impending expiration of my domain, brendonbody.com. I had owned this domain for over 10 years, and while it had expired once before, I was always able to reclaim it. This time, however, a domain squatter seized the opportunity and snapped it up.
Faced with a minimum bid of $500 USD to reclaim my domain, I seriously contemplated whether maintaining a blog was worth it.
Despite the considerable gaps between my posts and despite accidentally deleting my previous blog, I realized that I genuinely enjoy the process of blogging. I write for personal satisfaction rather than self-marketing, and I’ve even stopped monitoring my analytics. The loss of incoming links and search engine rankings didn’t bother me. I don’t have a plan to write X posts over Y time period; I simply blog when I have something to say.
I concluded that I wanted to continue blogging but wasn’t willing to pay to reclaim my old domain. So I opted for a new domain brendonbody.blog. I promptly updated the references on all platforms within my control and decided to make peace with the remaining broken links. It was a mistake on my part, and these were simply the consequences I had to accept. So I lost my domain and I don’t care…