You may recall that in my last post I briefly mentioned how the Aspiring Writer’s first birthday was coming up, and would be missed because I would be in Yorkshire (which was fun by the way, and I may upload some pictures at some point). Well that day came and with it brought the expiration of my original domain registration with HostGator, which should not have been a problem because it should have been transferred to Fast Hosting Direct. However, it turns out there was some problem with the transfer, meaning that it was left to expire with HostGator. I’m not sure exactly who was to blame, but after an exchange of emails between myself and the two companies I decided it would just be easier to swap to a new domain than go through all the hassle of sorting out my old one.

Apparently, that wasn’t too difficult, since I learned a few tricks from swapping Web Hosts, and I managed to complete the transition fairly painlessly over the course of a single afternoon, which was rather better than I predicted. The only problem now is that I have to build my traffic back up to this new domain, since I can’t just redirect everyone from theaspiringwriter.net, so, y’know, feel free to tell your friends about this amazing site featuring original short stories and some other crap. Also, nearly a hundred posts, as this one is, in fact, post number 99. I’ve got a special story (well, I think it’s good anyway) lined up for post 100, and shall hopefully have that up tomorrow. In addition, and as I always promise, there’ll be new updates coming soon and regularly.

This new domain, now with the .com extension that everyone seems more likely to remember even if they forget my name, should herald the start of a bigger and better The Aspiring Writer, and I hope not only everyone who read my site before will find their way here, but some new readers will too. Oh, and since you are here, don’t forget to click the ‘subscribe’ link either here, on your left, or at the top right of the page, to get RSS updates of every new post (if you’ve not used RSS feeds before, it’s dead easy, just click the link, leave the drop-down menu as ‘live bookmarks’ and you should get a nice little button on your tool-bar with a list of the most recent posts). Also, if you enjoy my writing, tell other people about this site, my goal is to break one million on the Alexa Rankings (I got within 70,000 places before).

Hope to see you again soon,

Henry.