In November of 2003, I started a little blog called Corpreform.com. I came up with the word because I wanted to tell the world that we didn't need tort reform, we needed to reform corporations. From 2003 until 2008, I blogged there about the civil justice system.
In November of 2008, my domain came up for renewal. Through a series of technical errors with my registrar and my own procrastination, the domain expired. Renewing it would have cost $80 bucks on top of the normal renewal fee. I was irritated that because my registrar's process to renew a domain failed it was going to cost me $80 bucks. So, I put off renewing until the last possible moment.
Actually, I put off renewing the domain until about ten minutes past the last possible moment. An individual bought it at an auction for $1,500 dollars, which to me seems like an exorbitant sum. I don't wish the new domain owner any ill will, but I also have no desire to send him traffic from now-broken links to my posts. So please update all of your links accordingly.
I'll miss Corpreform. It was my little word and my little place on the Internet. It's gone now, and I have no intention of paying some exorbitant sum to get it back. Instead, I'm just going to move on and use this as an opportunity to rebuild.
All of the material from Corpreform has made its way here. As much as it will suck losing the incoming links I had to that material, I do get at least one advantage: The names of my posts will now be much more descriptive. Whereas a post might have once been http://...a_few_words.html, it will now be http://...the_whole_title.html. This helps in SEO rankings, so once Google recrawls my site, I should do better in the searches... except for the loss of all the incoming links I used to have. Again, please update your links.
So let this be a lesson to you procrastinators out there: Don't put off renewing your domain. And one final time, please update all links you have to the old Corpreform.
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