One hot and sleepless southern night in August 2002, I discovered that the .us domain registry had lifted its inceptive restriction to state and local governments. Citizens, domestic companies, domestic organizations, and even foreign entities with a demonstrable domestic presence could then register a .us donain. I registered johnwoodruff.us before anyone could squat it (which had been the case with johnwoodruff.com for some five years). Shortly after acquisition, however, I thought it prudent to attach some perfunctory website lest someone allege squatting on my part, protest the registration, and potentially take it from me.
A similar thing happened in June 2003 when Network Solutions (the .us registrar) alerted me that johnwoodruff.com was available. I had been eyeing it for years and it never had a website despite its multiyear registration by some other John Woodruff. (I can only suppose he either retired or died and thus did not extend the registration.)
With the completion of my Ph.D. in 2009, I created a companion professional site. All sites had thus far been static html pages created with notepad and=or DreamWeaver. On April 7, 2013 at 1:29 pm, I pulled the trigger and converted my personal site to a WordPress blog. Nothing substantive and nothing substantial emerged until 2018. Later that year I gave the blog its own domain name and johnwoodruff.us became a neat, but thin, html5 page.
It became apparent to me in 2022 that some restructuring was needed and after careful planning, it finally happened on Mar 3, 2024 and johnwoodruff.us is again irs own WordPress to develop content that doesn’t quit fit the direction of my blog and professional sites.
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