Running a French Holiday Gite in Rural Brittany

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Happy Birthday dear domain name

Happy Birthday dear domain name
Happy Birthday dear domain name
Happy birthday dear domain name
Happy birthday tooo yoooo!

Bring out the cake, candles and decorations, today's the second birthday for giteinbrittany.com, our holiday home website domain!

Before you start thinking that I must be really sad by marking off memorable dates such as this in the diary, the only reason I know this is that I've just had to pay the domain name renewal fee for another year.
'Twas on this very eve two years ago that we spent most of the evening looking at differing domain name alternatives before we settled on the one we have now. We'd started out thinking of lesvallees.com (the hamlet where the Gite's located), brittanygite.com or brittany.com; but all of these had already been taken. A bit of lateral thinking and we ended up with giteinbrittany.com which has proven to be a really good memorable name and one we've been really happy with.

At the time we not sure we liked the name so we actually bought brittanyholiday.info as well but giteinbrittany.com's proven to be so popular we've not bothered with the other domain name and I'm actually going to let it lapse.

As I've blogged about before, our domain name and website are both hosted with 123-reg.co.uk which charge a quite reasonable £8.99 (+VAT) for the domain name and £19.08 (+ VAT) for the annual hosting fee. We've been very happy with both the performance of the website and the customer service given on the couple of occasions we've had to contact them - they're certainly recommended.

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