Blog update

The careful observer will note that this blog has a new web home - after a year and a half of residence at “heissufficient.net“, I’ve been able to secure “heissufficient.com” for immediate use!

The previous owner’s registration expired a few months ago and I was contacted by some holding company, offering a “once in a lifetime” deal to purchase the domain for several hundred dollars. I didn’t bite and evidently no one else did either… I looked again this afternoon and it was available for general registration. So here we are…

The primary blog domain has been changed to the new address, but all old .net links will continue to work, at least for the next year or two. That said, if you have me blogrolled and you get a moment to update your links, that’d be great! On a related note, the old “heissufficient.wordpress.com” address will no longer automatically forward readers to the current domain(s) - if you still have that one bookmarked, I’d really appreciate you updating your links.

Thanks!

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11 Comments

  1. Posted September 11, 2008 at 1:36 am | Permalink

    I’ve made the change.

  2. Posted September 11, 2008 at 1:47 am | Permalink

    Good change ElShaddai; com is still by far the best tld to own. Blogroll updated.

  3. Posted September 11, 2008 at 6:46 am | Permalink

    So you have gone commercial, then? That’s what .com is supposed to mean.

    Still confusion over your feeds. Yesterday I subscribed in Bloglines to http://heissufficient.net/feed/ (to replace a subscription to heissufficient.wordpress.com) which at least worked although for some reason I don’t get a proper link to the site’s main page. Today I have subscribed to http://heissufficient.com/feed/, which is apparently a working feed with a correct link to the main page but it is empty. I suspect some of your settings have got confused.

  4. Posted September 11, 2008 at 7:19 am | Permalink

    Peter - I just subscribed to “heissufficient.com/feed/” through Google and it picked up the feed just fine, with content and links working appropriately. I suspect it just took a bit of time for the change to propagate.

  5. Posted September 11, 2008 at 8:20 am | Permalink

    Also confusion over paragraph breaks in my previous comment. There was supposed to be one between “mean.” and “Still”, I left a blank line in the comment box. Until this rich text comment plugin can fix that issue it should not be used.

  6. Posted September 11, 2008 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    So you have gone commercial, then? That’s what .com is supposed to mean.

    *sigh* Yes, .com is the formal TLD for commercial endeavors, but surely in 2008, the functional definition is for all manner of “communication”. And I am definitely not an “Internet Service Provider”, as the .net TLD might have suggested. The lack of foresight to create a TLD early on for personal use, more generic and memorable than the recent .name and .info TLDs, has created a lack of elbow room for many sites.

    On a personal level, I find it ironic that the owners of “elshaddai.com” are expressly a “non-profit organization”, while the owners of “elshaddai.org” are an educational institution and the owner of “elshaddai.edu” is unknown as that TLD is a private registry. Registering “elshaddai.name” would be against the intended use of that TLD.

    Until this rich text comment plugin can fix that issue it should not be used.

    Given its inability to parse HTML code in entered text and render it correctly, I was coming to much the same conclusion. I’ve disabled it and will continue looking for a non-Ajax solution.

  7. Posted September 11, 2008 at 1:47 pm | Permalink

    Done. Congrats! That’s a nice find. As a dot-commer myself, I’m happy for you. FYI, Google reader picked up on the change without any effort on my part at all.

  8. Posted September 11, 2008 at 5:08 pm | Permalink

    The feed seems to be OK now. And the comment box, at least if this comment comes out as two paragraphs.

    Thanks for your hard work!

  9. Posted September 12, 2008 at 8:55 pm | Permalink

    .com for life! I’ve made your change, and I’ve got one myself (gregwillson.com).

  10. Posted September 13, 2008 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    Thanks guys - I’ve fussed with things a bit over the past few days, but it should be stable now and you can get the feed through both the .com and .net addresses. Unless someone can give me a *really* good reason to use FeedBurner, I’m probably done tinkering under the hood.

  11. Posted September 14, 2008 at 11:24 pm | Permalink

    Congrats ElShaddai. I’ve made the change.

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