Hannah.nu

About the Domain

Hannah.nu was bought on May 21st, 2009 to replace CreativeBurst.org as my blog. It is registered through the awesome Namecheap and is hosted under a custom reseller at my love, Holdfire.

This website is powered by Wordpress and a number of plugins. It would not be here if it weren't for Photoshop CS4, Textmate (my editor), Firefox & FireFTP, PHPAskIt. The emoticons used throughout the site are from Ferny-Dust.

History

This website has had many names, looks and purposes over the years. My first website ever was a pixel art website, which lasted until about December 2006 (it was up for a few years). As I got more into web design, I bought a few domains which remained open for a while, then closed (liquid-sunshine.net, euphoric-rain.net, electricromance.org). Then, I discovered PHP, XHTML, and accessibility. I was inspired to validate my XHTML and stop using celebrity graphics and other copyright material. So basically, I became an elitist snot.

I bought CreativeBurst.org on July 13th, 2007 from DreamHost, which was then my host. First CreativeBurst.org was mainly a website reviewing service, but lack of time and motivation caused me to stop reviewing and I just kept my blog. Then, in May 2008, some personal changes in my life including the end of a two year relationship and also the realization my site sucked/was boring (seriously, I thought long and hard about it and came to that conclusion) made me want to close the site and start anew. I bought Geekish.nu from Holdfire.net on May 28th, 2008.

Geekish.nu became my blog, and while I still offered boring content and such, I tried to be creative. Then, in January 2009, when my fanlisting collective, which was located at fan.geekish.nu started growing and taking up more of my time, I decided it was time once again to let it have its own domain. Since all of my fanlistings and hatelistings that didn't have their own domains had subdomains on geekish.nu, I felt it was right to use that domain. Then where to put my blog? Back to its past domain, CreativeBurst.org.

Then, in May 2009, the opportunity to buy Hannah.nu came up. I had been watching the domain ever since I discovered .nu domains, and had emailed the previous owner offers for it. When they finally got back to me, it was when they had let the domain expire. They basically said 'too late now it has expired'. I was mad, but all I could do was wait and hope that the registrar wouldn't hold onto it and stick advertisements on it (that REALLY pisses me off). I eventually forgot about it and one day suddenly remembered, and found it was available! I bought it immediately. That's where we are today!