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Where did katie.com go?

To answer all the queries in one place.... the short answer is, I sold it.

The longer answer is complicated, but basically I haven't really used it properly since the book situation happened. It is only very recently, some years after the whole debacle, that I felt safe enough to put my personal content on the front page and I was quite apprehensive of doing so at all.

I hadn't even used it for email in years because of my inbox being flooded with junk and spam and stories of rape.

It's weird though. Some part of my online identity is tied to that situation, like it or not, because it was such a big deal. I 'fought the good fight' for it and I feel some sense of achievement in that. But at the same time, it interfered with my enjoyment of using Katie.com for the purpose it was intended. However proud I felt to own a first name .com it was always marred by the book thing.

It's bittersweet to give it up.