Next week, on October 13th, the domain name strandedinmanhattan.com will expire.  I’ve had it redirecting to this website for a good ten months, so it’s time to finally let it go.

It’s been four years since I first registered Stranded in Manhattan.  At the time, I was in the first semester of my junior year at NYU, living in a dorm room right on top of Union Square.  I had not yet written for any website aside from my old NYU homepages address, and I was just starting my very first college internship.

I’ve moved four times since then — first to Brooklyn; eventually to Washington D.C. — but I’ve always had a fondness for the name, and I’m sorry to see it go.  Not quite sorry enough to pay ten bucks to renew it and another eighteen to keep the site live, but sorry nonetheless.  Don’t worry; it’s all backed up.

My old host, by the way, was QualityHostOnline.  It’s one of the smaller hosts, and in four years I’ve never had one problem.