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When I first transitioned my personal blog to the Area 73 name, the only reasonable domain name available was “area73.us”. At the time I was fine with it; it is short and easy to remember. However, it recently came to my attention that the “area73.org” and “area73.net” names have become available as well. Of course I immediately purchased them both, and how I am happy to report that this blog officially lives at area73.org! In fact, you can access it at any of the three domains, though they will all redirect to area73.org.

For the time being I have no plans to decommission the original area73.us, so any page links out in the wild will continue to work. However I still suggest updating your bookmarks to use the new canonical site name.

Now if only area73.com would become available…

As you probably noticed my blog has a new name – Area 73.

When I originally started this blog it was just a replacement for my aging personal homepage, and I wasn’t sure how long I would really stick with it. So, I brought the blog online in a subfolder of my personal family domain name. My intent was just to blog about random life things, and in fact my first post was about cooking.

Fast forward two and a half years, and now my blog has morphed into a place for me to showcase my hobby projects. With that in mind I decided it was time to give the blog a better name than just “Josh’s Blog”. I wanted a name that invoked images of a skunk works or secret lab, and also something easy to remember. So, I opened up my favorite DNS reseller and started looking at what was available.

After some thought I decided to parody the infamous Area 51, and so I settled on Area 73. Not only is it my birth year, it also happens to be the best number. It’s also unique enough that it won’t be confused with anything else (unlike my first choice, Area 313, which is also the name of a local DJ/musicians collective).

Along with the new name I’m going to be remodeling a bit (changing the WordPress theme). It may get a bit messy for a bit, so please watch your step. 😉

Since my old personal website was very, very out of date, I’ve decided to relaunch my page as a blog. Over the coming months I intend to post regularly regarding the status of my various personal projects, so stay tuned!