I really don’t know what possessed me to change my domain name from my Typepad one to my own. But now it’s done there’s lots of tidying up to follow.

I went over to Technorati and even though all my old hyperlinks still work and I’ve still essentially got the same blog I’m back to a really crap score on my Technorati profile. See for yourself.

I have other profiles all over the place too, and am changing my URL as I think of them.

I’ve changed my Blogger profile which I only setup so I could comment on some blogs with relative ease. While I’m talking about commenting on Blogger blogs I have to say I don’t like the way they’ve setup the form. I’m a keyboard queen and if I tab around on this form the cursor doesn’t go to the next input box. Also if I start typing before it fully loads all the content disappears when it does finally load. Very annoying.

I’ve also updated my Bumpzee profile. Fortunately it appears as though Bumpzee remembers me, but I’ll see how it goes.

While I’m on the ‘B’ updates, I need to go to BlogHer and change my blog details there too.

This is a work in progress for my benefit and anyone else who might be contemplating moving to their own domain from a hosted one.

Will I regret it, or not? Stay tuned.

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My relationship with blogging has reached the next level. I talked a while back about this blog being almost the longest relationship I’ve ever had. We had a talk, my blog and I, and we decided that it deserved its own domain name, that it had been far too long living with Typepad’s name.

Off we went to GoDaddy and registered www.semanticallydriven.com.

If you have eagle eyes and you’re visiting my actual blog (not the feed) you might notice this as part of the URL.

Therefore we now prefer not be known as http://www.semanticallydriven.com (although you’ll still find us there). We are now http://www.semanticallydriven.com/.

Everything SHOULD work as normal because my content is still on Typepad but it’s just got a different URL as part of the address now. I’ve done something called mapping my new domain name to my existing blog.

If you do have me in your blogroll you can update the address – that would be great. If you don’t then you’ll still find my blog and any links kicking around will still work.

If you visit me via a feed reader then that’s all still the same – you should notice no difference.

There are others to be told like Technorati and that’s just tipping the edge of the iceberg.

I’m not quite sure what I should do now. Perhaps I should have a party, crack open a bottle of champagne?

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