New domains
Posted on December 29, 2004
Filed Under Internet & Technology
I registered this domain, momathome.com back in 1998. Actually, I wasn’t the one who originally registered it. I didn’t know about these things back then. I helped Andrew Starr of [Newsreaders.com](http://newsreaders.com/) fame with some light graphics work, and in exchange he had the foresight to register the domain name for me. It sat for a while, until my email address with home.com was going away and was going to change to optonline.net (Optimum Online). This would have been my 3rd email address change in 4 years. I dreaded sending out those “my email address has changed, please make a note of it” emails again, so I asked Andrew to set up an email address for me on the momathome.com domain that he was holding. That was the last time I had to send out those “I changed my email address” notices, even though the host of momathome.com has changed more times than I can count since then.
As happy as I am that I own a great domain like momathome.com, I regret that I didn’t get momathome.net or momathome.org when I had the chance. Momathome.net even changed owners, and I missed the opportunity to grab it. The previous owners also had a Herbalife franchise and advertised those annoying “Work at Home” ads on the subways. Folks came to my website and then sent me angry emails wondering why I didn’t have information on the site related to the ad. You would think that one of the requirements of getting a great “work at home” job would be the ability to accurately jot down a website off an ad?
Now that I’m with a [host](http://www.dreamhost.com/rewards.cgi?momathome) that gives me more flexibility on domains,* I did some shopping. [GoDaddy](http://www.godaddy.com) has some registration sales right now, so I snapped up momathomedesign.com, momathomedesign.net, momathomedesign.org, judisohn.com and judisohn.net. For the moment, those domains are all simply pointing here but I may do something more interesting with them in the future.
\* At my old host, in order to redirect multiple domains to the same site I had to write to support and request it. Only a few domains were allowed, after that they charged. At Dreamhost, I can have unlimited domains redirecting to the same site.
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