Last year, during a particularly hectic period, I neglected my email inbox and, regrettably, overlooked several warnings from my Domain Registrar regarding the impending expiration of my domain, brendonbody.com. This domain has been mine for over 10 years, and while it had expired once before, I was always able to buy it back. 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 my own personal satisfaction, not for self-marketing purposes, and I’ve even stopped paying attention to my analytics. So the loss of incoming links and search engine ranking didn’t bother me. I don’t have any plan to write X posts over Y time period, I will just continue blogging when I feel like I want to say something.
I concluded that I wanted to continue blogging, but I 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…