Since there is a lot of my friends asked me in email and IM, why I changed my domain name from garfield.wtf.be to garfield.in, I think I should write the reason here and no need to keep on repeat telling the same thing all over again.
Before this, I was using free domain (a sub-domain name actually) from Afraid Free DNS.
Afraid Free DNS is a community group site where people park their domain name and share their domain name for everyone to use the domains as free sub-domain name.
Since the owner of wtf.be has removed his domain from there, so my previous URL has been removed as well along with other users of wtf.be. I have other alternative of domain choices at there actually. But if I use another domain’s sub-domain name, if the same case happened again, I will have to choose another sub-domain name again.
Since my traffics and the previous URL is already lost, it is better if I buy my own domain name and point my NS record (name server record) and manage my own domain name over there. At least I will not need to worry about the domain name get remove away and I lost my URL and traffics again.
In the process of buying domain name, I was planned to purchase garfield.net or garfield.org since garfield.com is already owned by the Garfield comic. But sadly, both of these domain was also purchased by other people. So i decided to try my luck on garfield.us (since a .us domain name is cheap also). But same thing, got people already owned it. At last I found that garfield.in is available for purchase, but a .in domain name is expensive, it cost about US$18 a year. After 1 day of consideration, I has decided to purchase it, if I don’t buy it faster, it might get purchased by other people. And i thought of using this domain name for running other websites by creating sub-domains since the domain name is quite short.
So, now I am running by blog with this domain name now. But hopefully, someone will be kind enough to donate some money to me for renew this domain name next year, hahahah.
With this domain name, I had started a free blog ping service at http://ping.garfield.in. It is a free blog ping service similar with Ping-O-Matic.
I am planning to run free OpenID provider service soon under http://openid.garfield.in, so if you need an OpenID, you may come here to register one.
To those who do not know what is OpenID, don’t worry, I am going to write about it soon in my blog once my OpenID service is launched.
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Reason Of My Domain Name Changes « WTF!? Not Syok Ar? Bite Me Lar! said
May 15 2009 @ 3:32 am
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wanwarlock said
May 15 2009 @ 11:30 am
It sucks isn’t it losing your domain and it’s hard to rebuild a new readership and all the SEO’s that you did!
Anyway, you’ll start with a clean slate…
May 15 2009 @ 9:31 pm
yeah, but nvm. it is ok to start it allover again.
actually the web hosting that i used b4 this was also closed down.
but luckily i have daily database backup and the modded script files backup.
but nvm, i start start it all over again.
at least those who who always come and visit my blog, i also got go to their blog, so it is easy to contact them back.
KatieKitty said
May 17 2009 @ 5:53 am
i have the exact same experience like yours before, but is not domain name problem.
i hosted my blog in a free web hosting, but the hosting was ultimately unreliable. they always down and although i did not reach bandwidth quota yet, my blog was suspended until the end of the month and i have to wait until the next month for my blog to up again. i am very sure that i did not reach the quota yet because not there is not much visit to my blog at that time.
May 17 2009 @ 11:08 pm
usually free hosting do not have that much bandwidth for many users,
they often claimed that they have unlimited bandwidth, but in fact they only have very low bandwidth to use for supplying it to users.
yet, they keep on allow ppl to sign up and use their service.
when they have not enough bandwidth, they will just simply suspend those high bandwidth usage accounts and accuse them with some non constructive excuse such as they host porn sites or violated the TOS.
not only free host, even some paid host did the same, such as godaddy hosting.
ChampDog said
May 21 2009 @ 12:02 am
.in is India domain?
Glad that you now still get back the Garfield domain. Maybe one day the prices will go up. 
Btw, why you like Garfield so much?
As for the openID I rarely use it although I have it. Not sure the real benefits of using it. Maybe you can talk about it more on that..
ChampDog said
May 21 2009 @ 12:04 am
Weird, it forces me to login with OpenID.
Cool…
May 24 2009 @ 9:05 pm
yeah, it is a india domain,
coz it is the only TLD that still have garfield as domain, so expensive a bit also nvm, still worth to buy it
hahhaha.
about the openid, actually u can post as anonymous, but if u already logged in in blogger.com, then it will use ur blogger.com openid as ur login
about the name garfield, coz my attitude quite similar with garfield.
annoying
hahah