A New Home for This Blog

When I first launched this blog, I wanted a short domain name for it. A name built around “ilyess”, which is the identity of this site. Obviously, ilyess.com was already taken. So I turned to the cheapest top-level domain I could get started with. After some promo hunting, I settled on ilyess.cc. It checked most of the boxes: short, centered around “ilyess”, and cheap. But this domain name is on an uncommon TLD and it’s not that “cool”. At least I didn’t think it was cool, and I still don’t. After some time, I noticed that I really like a specific kind of clever domain name, one where the TLD is woven into the site’s own name. I remember exactly where the trick first clicked: Aral Balkan’s ar.al. From there, I started seeing them everywhere: personalsit.es for “personal sites”, jessi.ca for “jessica”, selfh.st for “selfhost” (whose owner took it up a notch and used the dot, too, as a substitute for “o”)… you get the idea. Naturally, I started obsessing over the ilye.ss domain name.…