When you should not get a personalised domain name, and related stuff

All these personal 'bloggers', writers, artists, etc, hosting with whomever, and buying a domain name that sounds 'professional', should remember one thing. The day you stop paying for your domain, for instance, when you drop off the twig, your website is going to go invisible.



Blogspotters, for example, you've been told many a time by all those 'pro' sites on the net that you need to get a 'professional' sounding name. Sounds a lot like those times when you had to be white in order to get into a good school in the US. A '.com' sounds professional simply because it was used by news houses and companies first. Just like the rich wearing suits in the west, and all the chimps thereafter thinking that wearing one gives them some semblance of 'respectability', and even reaching psychotic proportions where one is expected to wear it, or a long sleeved shirt and tie, in sweltering climates.

All of it is psychosis of course, and the fact that it remains unquestioned proves beyond a doubt that insanity is only recognised as such when most people aren't equally insane - and which itself leads me to question how many things we take to be 'normal' is actually thoroughly mad - i'm the new age Descartes-reborn. The whole system thrives on mass madness, misconceptions, and misdirections, if you think about it.

Anyway,

When you get a blogspot, you have the option of turning your long address, like 'iamawimpydoodledandy.blogspot.com' into, 'iamawimpydoodledandy.COM'. Wow! You're a 'professional' now! Congratulations, even if you talk a whole load of shite like most facebookers, social mediadroids, and blogadites do these juvenile and america-led days. But not to worry, there are a whole load of people out there who find such fecalities most palatable.

When your lease on your .com name expires, and you aren't around to renew your lease, or disconnect it from your blog account, people typing it out will get a blank or 'oops' page or something to that effect. And your site address is forever going to show that page until someone buys that name, and people get directed to their site instead - unless you're the last of the wimpydoodledandies that is. You see, blogspot is not going to know that it has to disconnect your blogspot from your .com. It will always keep it connected, and hence, all your content is going to remain hidden.

The same applies to all websites with a single proprietor, unless your website living past you isn't an issue, or your sole purpose is to make money off it.

So the moral of the story is, don't buy suits because it is associated with respectability. That's just irrational....however, if you have to do it, at least realise that you're doing it for a purpose, and don't actually believe that it has intrinsic value.  And the second point is, have some foresight, and keep your blogspot free of .coms. Even if nobody wants to pay attention to you because of your long name, the fact that they need an abbreviated suffix to your site's name before they pay attention to it indicates that they are probably too thick to appreciate your points anyway, or consider it for long, or have it take root and bear fruit.

Be respectful of the integrity of what you're aiming for. The desire for popularity only has you validating the fools of the age, and turns you into one of those who pandered to, and promoted it. If you can't solve the problem, at the very least, don't be a part of it.

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