Cool URIs don't change

Posted on Apr 28, 2025

During Easter, there was a sale on domains at my hosting provider, and I saw my moment had come and secured a domain I had been eyeing for several weeks.

As you can see, the site has now moved from blog.dkwr.de to tty4.dev. Somehow it all looks more pleasing to my eye, and besides that, the domain is just plain cool and hopefully easier to remember.

But in keeping with “Cool URIs don’t change”, all old references redirect to the new domain via HTTP 301. So nobody - including myself - needs to check everywhere if the domain still works. I also know how annoying it is when you’ve saved bookmarks and after a few weeks the site is no longer available.

Since I’m keeping ownership of dkwr.de, I can prevent that.

And by the way: I also secured tty4.de some time ago. That one also redirects here and can be helpful for impatient people or those who make typos.

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