{"id":116,"date":"2008-07-07T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T09:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/weve-moved-domains\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:18:42","slug":"weve-moved-domains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/weve-moved-domains\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Moved Domains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About three weeks ago, we changed domains from www.diamondsandopals.com to www.jogiadiamonds.com.au.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For quite a while now, we&#8217;ve questioned whether or not www.diamondsandopals.com was really right for our company.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998, when we first started online, we sold a range of diamond and opal jewellery. The reason why we chose &#8220;diamondsandopals.com&#8221; were two fold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even though .com.au domains were free (from memory), hosting was enormously expensive, with a host like iiNet charging between $400 and $600 per year. However, US hosting was a lot cheaper, but for some strange reason, they refused to host .com.au domains.<\/li>\n<li>Generic domain names were all the rage. Domains such as pets.com were at the height of their success, and we wanted to cash in on this domain &#8220;land rush&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2000, we registered jogiadiamonds.com.au, and up until 2006, we ran the two sites simultaneously. In mid-2006 however, we started re-directing jogiadiamonds.com.au to our main site, www.diamondsandopals.com.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, many people have inquired whether or not we sell opals, and a lot of people we confused as to who we actually were &#8211; were we &#8220;Diamonds and Opals&#8221; or &#8220;Jogia Diamonds International&#8221;? Furthermore, many thought that the .com address meant we were American.<\/p>\n<p>So after months of thinking, deciding and planning, we moved our site to www.jogiadiamonds.com.au, 301 redirect-ing all our pages to the corresponding page on our new domain, allowing those who bookmarked our pages easy access to our new domain.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the response has been extremely positive, with a few customers already noticing the change and congratulating us on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three weeks ago, we changed domains from www.diamondsandopals.com to www.jogiadiamonds.com.au.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-care-of-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jogiadiamonds.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}