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+title: "Migrating Domains"
+date: 2024-03-08
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+I wrote an [article on my Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lessons-learned-migrating-domains-joe-thor/) (LinkedIn?) back in 2019 about the struggles I had migrating  domain names for my hobby cat website.
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+There were some issues I ran into regarding the database naming things specific to the domain (that I am sure I was the root cause of).
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+I have since removed that site because of costs and time commitments. I learned a lot, to be honest, from managing it. And I realize whatever you put out in the world is always a liability that will take effort to maintain.
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+Also I learned DNS is hard. It is a piece of technology cobbled together from a bunch of other systems that are held together by the good will of corporations and individuals. So it takes time for changes to propagate. I am used to making changes, running my code, and reacting. DNS does not let you do that because it is complex.
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+Something I find myself saying (especially to my kids) is that *things take time* and DNS is a prime example of that.