{"id":1424,"date":"2026-01-20T21:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:37:22","slug":"blogging-and-protecting-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/blogging-and-protecting-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging and protecting URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started this blog, I also registered NoNewWars.org, NoNewWars.info, NoNewWars.net and NoNewWars.org.uk.\u00a0 I got talked into releasing the ones that I was not actively developing to save money and so I let them expire.<\/p>\n<p>As at today, domain squatters (who took them over when they expired and have been trying to sell them since) are charging nearly \u00a315,000 for these domains.\u00a0\u00a0That is down to a certain Donald Trump and his vow of &#8220;No new wars&#8221; making the expression rather popular.\u00a0 I wish I had kept those domains now.<\/p>\n<p>But recent events have prompted me to register another one for myself: <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/\">No New Wars with a Greenland TLD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started this blog, I also registered NoNewWars.org, NoNewWars.info, NoNewWars.net and NoNewWars.org.uk.\u00a0 I got talked into releasing the ones that I was not actively developing to save money and so I let them expire. As at today, domain squatters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/01\/blogging-and-protecting-urls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,418,23],"tags":[319,419,120],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-domain-squatting","category-hosting-woes","tag-blogging","tag-domain-squatting","tag-hosting-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}