If you read my posts via micro.blog this would not affect you, but for anyone else, I’m changing my domain to sleepyowl.ink. In the end, I decided that I don’t like having my name in my URL. 😛
My old URL will continue to work until mid-April.
I’m not sure what the online etiquette is for something like this.
(How do you guys handle this?)
@vishae I Iike the name.
@vishae I am not an expert and haven’t done it before, but here are some thoughts on a theoretical basis:
You should set the old domain to issue HTTP 301 Moved Permanently responses for every resource, pointing to its corresponding location at the new domain, so that any search engine results, etc. get updated before the old domain goes away.
You might also want to look at the referrer (I think it gets set to the old site on a 301) of visitors to the new site and then show a notice for a while to anyone who arrives from the old site, reminding them to update their bookmarks.
And then post a couple more times between now and the discontinuation of the old domain, reminding everyone of the upcoming change and to update their bookmarks, RSS subscriptions, email address books(?), etc. (I wonder if RSS readers update subscribed feed URLs automatically when they get a 301?)
@smokey I will point out that a few registrars (like Hover) don’t actually support 301 redirects, for reasons I still can’t figure out. I’m still trying to decide if I want to move registrars over that as I have another domain for my old gaming blog that I’d like to just set to redirect to the corresponding posts on my micro.blog hosted blog.
@smokey @vishae – I will point out that a few registrars (like Hover, weirdly) don’t actually support 301 redirects, for reasons I still can’t figure out. I’m still trying to decide if I want to move registrars over that as I have another domain for my old gaming blog that I’d like to just set to redirect to the corresponding posts on my micro.blog hosted blog.
@DrOct Huh, I had no idea. That seems wrong 🙁