Twenty-five years ago today I registered axbom.com as my domain name for sharing updates and stories. I had started blogging (or web logging) prior to then, on a Swedish platform known as Passagen, but owning my own name as a dot com was exhilirating. I first coded my pages by hand on my own domain, but I’ve since hosted my blog on many different platforms, such as Blogger, Drupal and Wordpress. The domain name has followed me along on all these adventures.
So while the underlying tech has changed many times in this quarter-century, there has been no new address to learn. No redirect needed. Readers could always find my writing on axbom.com (and eventually also axbom.se when I split into two different language versions).
The term wasn’t coined yet but the domain name was my key to the independent web, or indieweb.
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Indieweb refers to owning your own domain name and your own assets online. The idea is to avoid being dependent on commercial actors who may misuse your data, exploit it for harmful impact, or simply make it disappear. Read more on Grow your own services.
