Just a brief post to my readers explaining I have decided to not renew my domain name subscription with GoDaddy when it expires on 20 January of this year.
Hopefully the transition to a standard Blogger address will be transparent, however if you discover you can no longer read our blog at www.narrowboat-waiouru.co.uk then it will be because the address has changed to the free Blogger address which is www.narrowboat-waiouru.blogspot.com
Why the change?
I changed to www.narrowboat-waiouru.co.uk because I wanted more control over the blog address. When you use the Google Blogger address it’s owned by Google. At the time I was considering moving away from Blogger as my platform and having our own blog address would make that easier.
Cost has been another factor. When I first obtained the independent domain name the annual rental cost was £5. Next year GoDaddy wants £19.99. A 400% increase which I consider excessive. Perhaps GoDaddy is raising the subscription because the blog is so popular <hahahaha!>
Finally, blogging is slowly dying. Young people tend not to read or write blogs. It’s too much of a ‘one way’ medium with limited interaction. Farcebook became the social media platform of choice for the young as it provided greater and faster interaction. But today Farcebook is also dying as the young move to the likes of Instagram and Twitter. The discretionary spending and marketing opportunities are with the young rather than the ‘wrinklies’, therefore blogging is dying. However I doubt google will close down Blogger in the short to medium future. It doesn’t cost them much to maintain the platform and their attempt to replace it with Google+ failed spectacularly.
I will continue to write and hopefully you’ll find some of the content interesting.
3 comments :
Hi Tom
We have oleanna.co.uk with 123-reg and the next renewal is due to be £9.99 + vat. Makes you wonder how Go-Daddy make up their prices!
Mick
Hi Tom
New URL bookmarked.
I first picked up your blog when you was writing about all the issues getting Waiouru built and still follow it now along with a select couple of others (NB Oleanna, NB No Problem, Guide Dog Oakley Retired.....)
Still find it interesting, i also use FB but much prefer a decent read not a load of halt thought through posts/comments.
What FB really did kill off was forums apart from a few specialised ones which is a shame as they are much better for getting decent replies.
Happy new year
Dave
Interesting observation on blogging Tom, I got a feeling the bottom won’t fall out of it anytime soon. Farcebook owns Instagram so it seems always trying to be in the front of the social media race. These platforms seem to have a shelf life where as blogging keeps rolling along in the background, I reckon it will come around again before it dies.
Anyway I’ll be still following along narrowboat or not!
I wonder how much interest you still get about the old boating posts?
Hope the fires don’t come to close looks bad in NSW on the news here.
Cheers
Ade
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