Got a shiny new Domain

I have been inactive for quite a long time(10 posts in two years). There were many reasons for the lack of activity(like laziness). But when I decided to come back, I felt like I needed a change and the best place to start was with Domain name.

The old domain "some-blog" has an interesting back story associated with it. When I started blogging as a n00b, I had no idea about the importance of domain name and other geeky stuff like SEO. So I was like, "Man, "some blog" sound so cool! I gotta use that. But unfortunately "some blog" was already taken and I had to settle with "some-blog". It wasn't too long before I started reading about SEO and tried to implement different methods and then I realized that the name "some-blog" doesn't really sound as cool as I thought.

That was when I started to think about getting a custom domain, but I wasn't sure if I had enough to write about and keep the blog updated regularly. So I chose another cool thing, tech et al, as the title of my blog. Its not that much better than "some-blog" but at least "tech et al" sounds and IS really cool. Meanwhile I kept looking for bargains to get a new domain as cheap as possible. The coolness factor won again and I bought techetal.in as my new domain.

I bought the domain from Dynadot.com and got a great bargain for one year plan. I am also planing to upgrade it to a 5 year plan but that can wait. The redirection thingy took quite a lot of time as this was my first time. I had to clear all the setting a couple of times and twice I changed the domain back to good, old some-blog. Finally I got it working today and here I am, writing a nostalgic story about a blog's coming of age.

PS: I'll be starting a series of SEO articles for beginners and I hope to cover all the basic points in about 10/15 posts.