Expiring soon

When I started working as a programmer back in 2010, I had the brilliant idea of buying a domain. The search was short because I wanted to register my own name. I checked the domain, and it was available. My presence on the web, within reach of my wallet.

Back then it was $10 a year, almost symbolic. I didn’t really know what I wanted it for. A lot of people were buying domains at the time and holding onto them to speculate, like the man who recently sold ai.com for 61 million dollars. But I knew no one would ever buy a domain with my name on it.

Over the years, the site has been a blog, then an HTML file, then a private project, and now a blog again, like in the beginning. The difference is that now I actually have things to say, information to share, and photos to upload.

Today I got an email saying my domain is expiring soon. I wish it could last forever, but that’s not possible. There’s no such thing as a lifetime domain. I have to renew it every year, or every ten years, however I choose. And even though bearblog.dev is built to last, I don’t think it will still be here in fifty years.

I’ve thought that when I’m no longer around, this domain will die too. Maybe some future Melvin Salas will claim it, or maybe no one ever will.