Comcast's personal web pages
Sun Aug 30 12:35:13 EDT 2015
Since Comcast's personal web pages are going away, I'll need to find some other option for hosting anything I want on the Internet. I've been mulling over a possible domain name. I think there is now a top-level domain "bike", and "recumbrent.bike" is probably not taken, although I don't know that I want something so specific to me. I do bike a fair amount, and I ride a recumbent bike, and recumBRent was a nice pun on that (except for those who think the word actually is "recumbrent" (and "incumbrent", egad)). So it does fit me. And it will probably be easy for people to remember, should they want/need to remember my domain name. But there's other things in my life.
Looks like recumbrent.com, .org, .net are also available.
recumbent.com is strangely available, and recumbent.org and recumbent.net are for sale. But I'm not running a business. I don't need to have any particular domain name. I don't need to be easy for customers to find.
Tuesday 12:44
I was looking around at domain and web hosting costs last night. On GoDaddy.com, .bike domains are $40/year, while .com domains are $15/year. So while recumbrent.bike sounded cool, recumbrent.com would be much cheaper. Initial costs for domains and hosting are often much lower for the first month or year, and renewal/ongoing costs are much higher than the prices listed in the big fonts.
Hosting generally seems to include one (or more, for more-expensive packages) domain name free, so maybe the .com/.bike price difference would be moot, but might become an issue again if I changed hosting providers. And re-hosting looks not unlikely, with the variety of service offerings and pricing. Changing domain names is to be avoided - I will already have broken links all through my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal postings. One advantage of being 4 years behind in posting what I'm writing here is that these posts can still be corrected to my new domain before they get on line.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/763311.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
Since Comcast's personal web pages are going away, I'll need to find some other option for hosting anything I want on the Internet. I've been mulling over a possible domain name. I think there is now a top-level domain "bike", and "recumbrent.bike" is probably not taken, although I don't know that I want something so specific to me. I do bike a fair amount, and I ride a recumbent bike, and recumBRent was a nice pun on that (except for those who think the word actually is "recumbrent" (and "incumbrent", egad)). So it does fit me. And it will probably be easy for people to remember, should they want/need to remember my domain name. But there's other things in my life.
Looks like recumbrent.com, .org, .net are also available.
recumbent.com is strangely available, and recumbent.org and recumbent.net are for sale. But I'm not running a business. I don't need to have any particular domain name. I don't need to be easy for customers to find.
Tuesday 12:44
I was looking around at domain and web hosting costs last night. On GoDaddy.com, .bike domains are $40/year, while .com domains are $15/year. So while recumbrent.bike sounded cool, recumbrent.com would be much cheaper. Initial costs for domains and hosting are often much lower for the first month or year, and renewal/ongoing costs are much higher than the prices listed in the big fonts.
Hosting generally seems to include one (or more, for more-expensive packages) domain name free, so maybe the .com/.bike price difference would be moot, but might become an issue again if I changed hosting providers. And re-hosting looks not unlikely, with the variety of service offerings and pricing. Changing domain names is to be avoided - I will already have broken links all through my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal postings. One advantage of being 4 years behind in posting what I'm writing here is that these posts can still be corrected to my new domain before they get on line.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/763311.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]