{"id":40,"date":"2008-12-30T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-07-23T01:20:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T01:20:06","slug":"renewing-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Renewing Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of each year, I sign onto my GoDaddy account and renew all my domains with one swing.  In doing so, I had to make some decisions, since some of the domains are dogs. I have to really think back: What was I thinking when I signed up for this? One domain I had, but declined to renew: TIMFO.INFO. It must have been on sale. What else could I have been thinking?  <\/p>\n<p>Now, I had been planning on launching this blog since August, so I was trying to find the right domain.  The obvious would have been MCGUINNESS.COM, but the guy who has owned it, after a financial advisor dropped it, wanted $10,000. I hate squatters; just another form of web parasite.  <\/p>\n<p>So we get MCGUINN.ES.  Not the exact spelling, but I&#8217;m going to run with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you have all the money, the process of getting a good domain need takes some imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tim.mcguinn.es\/s\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}