My WordPress plan has expired.
It has not been renewed, yet.
When you try to link to my page, the links will be broken. Broken links will hurt your SEO, so don’t do it! At least not right now.
When you try to find my page, you’ll see a message that says ‘millenniallifecrisis.org has expired’ and ‘please notify the site’s owner’. To those of you who have notified me today, thank you. I am aware.
You should be able to find posts on your WordPress reader, for now. From my understanding, posts are being reverted back to the free-links that come from a Free WordPress account. So, if you’re an email subscriber to this blog, you’ll likely see them in your email but you won’t be able to click on a link to see it further.
I’m not too sure the route I want to take this blog. I’m at a bit of a crossroads with respect to my digital footprint right now. You could call it a bit of a Millennial Life Crisis. I’m considering renewing and I am also considering rebranding. I wasn’t really going to say anything until I’d made a decision but, enough people have noticed and asked me that I thought I better acknowledge it.
When I figure it out, I’ll be sure to share. Until then, hopefully nobody steals my URL. Thank you for all of the kind emails and Instagram messages and comments today.
I’m sure you’ll make the correct decision
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I hope everything goes smoothly
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Thank you.
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You usually have 30 days as a safety net before your hosting company releases it to the public. That’s what happened to me back in 2015 when I couldn’t pay for renewing my old domain name.
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Okay thank you. I knew there was a grace period but I wasn’t sure what it was. Appreciate the tidbit!
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The hosting company should have sent an email on when it goes back to being available for anyone to pick up. Mine did and it was a small hosting company.
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I’m so sorry, I hope this problem get resolved quick…☹️💋
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Thanks!
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whatever you decide, I support you. 🙂
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Thank You!
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I agonized over this when deciding whether to grab a domain (and what it should be), and whether I should rename/rebrand the blog — with approximately zero followers — to conform to the domain, should I get one.
Although the blog was (and remains) common-cents, that ockhams-razor.com was available proved too much to pass on. I’m content, whether it costs me SEO, followers, good karma, or bad wind. The blog name is a reasonable descriptor; the domain, a rubric and methodology.
YMMV, of course…..
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It’s good to hear this from another perspective. Honestly, I haven’t even thought of what to rebrand too, I just feel like I need a change, somehow. Thank you for sharing your take. I definitely need to do some more thinking about it.
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Honestly, I think part of my problem was thinking about it too much. I like the domain name; but I had just begun sharing the more generic WP URL and couldn’t easily part with it. So: both. Impulse. I don’t regret it — my energy is better spent writing.
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Well don’t disappear.
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I won’t. I promise.
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Here’s to coming to the best decision for you my dear V ❤
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Thank You ❤
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You don’t need to rebrand, you just need to go and buy the domain you were using from somewhere like namecheap. Then wherever/however you end up hosting the blog, you need to map/point the domain to it.
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Actually, it seems like WordPress auto-renewed your domain for another year on the 9th, as your domain doesn’t expire until 9th Jan 2022. So you don’t need to worry about the domain/URL part at the moment. And you’ll be able to transfer the domain to another domain registrar if you want to use a host other than wordpress.com.
So you can host your wordpress blog on another web host like Gandi, Dreamhost, Amazon Lightsail etc with your current domain, and it’s much cheaper. I dunno if you already knew all this, but I can explain more if you don’t know what I’m on about.
Actually since I’ve now done the research I’m going to buy tornadoofchaos.com and move my wordpress blog to another host :D, and get rid of the ads.
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I don’t really want to point it though. Part of me wants to drop MillennialLifeCrisis all together.
I don’t know, I just… euck. I don’t like anything right now. It all sounds annoying to me.
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Haha, ok, I know the feeling. Could be fun coming up with a new brand?
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Couldn’t do it this year. I renewed for one more year. I’ll spend the next twelve months dreaming up something better. lol
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Haha 😄🙌
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Hope it all goes smoothly …………..
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Thank You
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Whatever you do, I am sure it will be amazing 🙂 I’ll continue to follow and read your content wherever you are 🙂
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Thank you ❤ This made me smile tonight.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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I second that.☺️ Good luck making the best decision for yourself.
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Wishing you well whatever you decide my friend.
But please let us know where to find you wherever you may go 👍🖤
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I renewed millenniallifecrisis.org for one more year. That way I have a lot of time to determine new branding for my site.
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Excellent news! 👍🖤
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Hopefully!
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Please stay. Rebranded or not.
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Oh, I’ll be here. I’ve got nowhere to go. lol
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Yay. My blog feed is happy.
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