New Domain Name!

• Posted: January 5, 2008
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• Author: Christina
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• Filed under: wordpress/website
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• Tags: blogging, domain name, URL

This bitch just got a better domain. w00t!

Last year, I thought it might be a good idea to buy a domain name that was you know, my actual name. Although I pre­vi­ously asso­ci­ated such a purchase/use with an utter lack of cre­ativ­ity (and I still think that’s true), I was able to rec­og­nize the ben­e­fits that hav­ing ChristinaWarren.com vs. PlanetChristina.com (which I also have), Filmmania.net (which I’ve had for 8 years but havent had con­tent on in about 5) or any of my other ran­dom domains. Although that may seem obvi­ous to every other per­son on the planet (which is why peo­ple always reg­is­ter their own names), it took hav­ing my name and pic­ture appear in USA Today once a week last Spring for me to even cog­ni­tively process the idea of peo­ple Googling my name, you know, look­ing to find me.

Any­hoo, ChristinaWarren.com was taken — I think I even e-mailed the site reg­is­trant and who­ever it was wanted more money than I was will­ing to fork over (and I wasn’t will­ing to really spend any more than the reg­is­tra­tion fee — so ask­ing for $500 or what­ever didn’t really make me want the domain more, it just made me pissy). How­ever, Christina-Warren.com was avail­able, so I reg­is­tered that instead.When I finally got around to set­ting up Word­Press as my pri­mary web­site dri­ver, and decided to focus on Christina-Warren.com as my main domain for my pseudo-professional web space, I chose the tagline, “Because some other bitch took the URL with­out the hyphen” because it was the first thing that popped into my head when doing the default Word­Press install. The few peo­ple who I let see my site before I put up my 12–26 post thought it was funny, so I decided to keep it.

Well, 10 days later — this bitch just got a bet­ter domain! Thanks to Twit­ter (oh Twit­ter, how I love thee — I’m @film_girl, by-the-by) and Shashi Bel­lamkonda, I found out ChristinaWarren.com was avail­able. Joy. Pure Joy.So now I need another tagline. Here’s hop­ing I can get inspired.

Out.

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