{"id":51,"date":"2026-04-16T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:55:14","slug":"i-got-my-domain-name-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/i-got-my-domain-name-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I got my domain name back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I set up this domain name in 2006 to host my first portfolio which helped me to get my first studio job at <a href=\"https:\/\/door4.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Door4<\/a>. I lost it around 2013, completely due to negligence. It was picked up by another Pete Morley, a poet and digital artist &#8211; cool for him but annoying for me because I had to switch to a trendy .me domain for my next job application. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, our work couldn&#8217;t have been any more different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well it turns out, .co.uk became available again. And so here we are 13 years later. Chewie, I&#8217;m home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last 25 or so years I&#8217;ve found myself checking in on a handful of Pete Morleys, seeing what they&#8217;re up to online. There was Pete Morley the Australian comedian. Pete Morley the photographer, Pete Morley Singer\/Songwriter and as mentioned; Pete Morley the poet\/digital artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/archive.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Archive.org<\/a> has managed to save some of Pete&#8217;s poems as well as some parts of my original websites, so just in case anybody was looking for him (or if he&#8217;s some kind of oddball who googles his own name), you can <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170331230828\/http:\/\/www.petemorley.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">see his old website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up this domain name in 2006 to host my first portfolio which helped me to get my first studio job at Door4. I lost it around 2013, completely due to negligence. It was picked up by another Pete Morley, a poet and digital artist &#8211; cool for him but annoying for me because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petemorley.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}