{"id":516,"date":"2007-06-19T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T08:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/06\/19\/your-own-domain-a-warning\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T08:01:26","slug":"your-own-domain-a-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/your-own-domain-a-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Own Domain: A Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a thought for those of you who have your own domains: don&#8217;t let &#8217;em expire.&nbsp; If you do, they may be snatched up by some unsavory company and anyone who comes to visit you may see advertisements to casinos,&nbsp;pharmaceutical items,&nbsp;or worse.&nbsp; This creates a burden for those who have domains who don&#8217;t want to pay $10 each year to renew.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For those of you considering registering a domain, keep this in mind.&nbsp; It may not be an issue if no one outside your immediate circle visits your site and thus you are able to alert in advance all of your visitors (and linkers).&nbsp; Another method may simply be to put up an &#8220;out of service&#8221; sign for some months or years (depending upon the nature of the site and visitors) before you decide not to renew.&nbsp; I think I would consider this an obligation for believers who have domains, out of consideration for others.<\/p>\n<p>I have become aware of this issue through some links from BiblePlaces.com that go to websites that used to be about Bible-related material but now are not.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know of a better solution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a thought for those of you who have your own domains: don&#8217;t let &#8217;em expire.&nbsp; If you do, they may be snatched up by some unsavory company and anyone who comes to visit you may see advertisements to casinos,&nbsp;pharmaceutical items,&nbsp;or worse.&nbsp; This creates a burden for those who have domains who don&#8217;t want to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/your-own-domain-a-warning\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}