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Master of My Domain, Part 2

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You’re now reading Port Manteau at http://arthurhovinc.com. I dropped the “.wordpress” from the URL. It’s still hosted on WordPress, because I’m taking the path of least resistance to getting my writing out there. But now it is that much easier to get to my website—just type my name and append with “.com”!

Why the change, Art? you might ask. Well, I’m feeling rambunctious. I’m feeling like a lot of writing is going to pop up in the near future, and I want to give it the best platform it can have.

Join me, won’t you?

Art

Master of My Domain, Part 1

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I’m upset that neither portmanteau.com nor port-manteau.com is available as a domain for my blog. If you didn’t have the courage to click the links, portmanteau.com times out, and port-manteau.com sells earrings. Earrings?! What has that got to do with the word “portmanteau”? At least my use of it plays on the word “port” as if “Port Manteau” were some magical island cove, and the splitting of “port” and “manteau” is exactly the opposite of what a portmanteau is. Can you think of any other domain name delimiters that I could use to separate the words “port” and “manteau”?

I hope these sites appreciate whatever extra traffic I’m giving them by linking!

Rats,
Art