Over the past decade, my blog has gone through several domain changes, each reflecting different stages of my learning, work, and life. As of 2025, I realized that the previously used hyruo.com no longer suited my needs. After a long search, I finally found a satisfactory new domain — lawtee.com. I believe this will be the last domain change for a long time. Since changing a domain is a significant move that requires a series of accompanying updates, I apologize to all my readers for any inconvenience! I may need to bother you all a bit more in the future!

History of Domains for My Personal Blog

During my university years, I frequently changed domains, mainly because I wasn’t clear about the blog’s direction. For example, I used ifosu.com, where “fosu” was the abbreviation of my university; hxxxxxx.com, which was the full pinyin of my name; faxue.info, the full pinyin of my major, law; and even some quirky ones like foshan.de and cstir.com.

Eventually, ifosu.com stayed until early 2021. Due to this incident, I learned that my university was planning to change its name, making ifosu.com irrelevant. So, I listed it on Alibaba Cloud and sold it for 999 yuan.

As I mentioned in Why Did You Give Up on Your Personal Blog, from 2019 to 2022, I didn’t update my blog due to family and work reasons. It wasn’t until 2023 that I picked it up again. Initially, I wanted to create a family blog and used a 3-letter cc domain. However, I later discovered that these three letters had a negative connotation, which bothered me so much that I decided to change the domain to hyruo.com at the end of 2023. “Hyruo” is my daughter’s name.

I never intended to use hyruo.com for my blog because I knew I would eventually give it to my daughter. But since it was the only com domain I had at the time, I used it anyway, and it ended up being used for over a year.

Now, it’s time to pay the debt.

Starting from the 2024-2025 school year, my daughter’s school introduced an introductory programming course, and she began learning about the internet at home. It’s likely that hyruo.com will soon be handed over to her.

Why Change the Domain?

Apart from the fact that hyruo.com is my daughter’s name and felt awkward to use, another significant reason for the change is related to the domain registrar.

Hyruo.com was registered through Cloudflare. While Cloudflare is industry-leading in terms of domain management convenience, renewal pricing, and especially its suite of services, it has three major drawbacks.

1. Long Domain Resolution Time
   Domains registered with Cloudflare can only use its own nameserver services. In China, Cloudflare’s resolution speed is relatively slow. According to itdog tests, the average resolution time across the country is around 500ms, which accounts for nearly one-third of the average webpage loading time. Using domestic nameservers like dnspod significantly improves this process.

2. Inability to Use Optimized IPs
   Cloudflare is often referred to as the “slowdown cloud” because the server IPs provided to free users are randomized. One second, your site might be accessed via a server in Hong Kong, and the next, it could be a server in South America. This results in wildly inconsistent speeds across the country, with some connections taking as little as 0.2 seconds and others up to 20 seconds. This led to the development of “optimized IP” strategies, where real-time speed tests guide users to the fastest route between their location and Cloudflare’s global servers. However, this method requires that the primary domain not be hosted on Cloudflare.

3. Putting All Eggs in One Basket
   This issue was highlighted in a blog post by tech expert Den Delimarsky titled Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet. He recommends separating website content from domain hosting. If your account is terminated for any reason, you won’t be left stranded with both your domain and hosting inaccessible.

As a best-practice, I would also highly recommend the separation of concerns in terms of where you have your domain and where you host your content. If you host your content with Cloudflare, don’t register the domain there - keep it on a registrar like Porkbun or Namecheap. That way if your account is terminated by the host for whatever reason, you’re not left holding the bag because you can’t even access your domain to point to another host. —— Den Delimarsky

The Process of Registering a New Domain

For this domain change, I initially considered a 5-letter com domain. During my domain scanning, I found that over one-third of 5-letter com domains were still unregistered. However, after years of development, most of the remaining unregistered 5-letter com domains are either too obscure or not meaningful enough.

Eventually, I registered leftn.com, which felt like the closest to a readable and writable 5-letter com domain I could find. It combines the English word “left” with the letter “n,” pronounced as /lɛftən/.

When I scanned for law-related com domains, I discovered that this category is highly contested by domain speculators. Domains from aalaw.com to zzlaw.com were all taken, with prices starting at $3000. The less formal lawaa.com to lawzz.com were slightly better, but only a few meaningless ones remained.

Since 5-letter domains were hard to come by, I moved on to 6-letter ones. I scanned through lawaaa.com to lawzzz.com and aaalaw.com to zzzlaw.com, totaling 35,152 domains. While many were still unregistered, finding a 6-letter domain that was easy to pronounce and spell proved even more challenging. Ultimately, I settled on lawtee.com, which can be pronounced as /lɔːti/. It’s a combination of two words: “law” and “tee.”

“Tee” has multiple meanings in English, including the letter “T,” T-shaped objects (like T-shirts or T-joints in plumbing), and golf tees. It’s also pronounced the same as “tea.” In some European countries like Germany, Finland, and Estonia, “tee” means tea, and in other countries, tea is spelled as “te.” Additionally, in English, people often mistakenly spell “tea” as “tee.” Thus, renaming this blog to The Little Law Teahouse felt natural.

1. T /tiː/

• Meaning: “T” is the 20th letter of the English alphabet.
• Usage: Commonly used in abbreviations, symbols, or to represent concepts, such as “T-shirt” or “T-bone steak.”

2. TEA /tiː/

• Meaning: “Tea” refers to the beverage made from the leaves of the tea plant.
• Usage: Used to describe tea or tea-related items, such as “green tea” or “tea party.”

3. TEE /tiː/

• Meaning: “Tee” has multiple meanings:
  • Golf: Refers to the small stand used to elevate the ball for the initial drive, known as a “golf tee.”
  • Clothing: “Tee” is short for “T-shirt.”
  • Shape: Refers to objects shaped like the letter “T,” such as a “pipe tee.”
• Usage: Depending on context, it can be used in golf, clothing, or to describe shapes.

Moreover, “lawtee” can easily be associated with words like “legatee” (heir), “committee” (elected or appointed person), “giftee” (recipient of a gift), and “tutee” (person being tutored). This makes “lawtee” seem like a term describing someone who receives or is subject to law. This connection aligns well with the subtitle of my blog: Legal Professional.

Writing all this is partly to justify the domain choice. Initially, I didn’t think this deeply. I just felt that “lawtee” resembled “gitee,” used by Gitee. Although it has two more letters, it’s easy to recognize and pronounce, so I went with it immediately.

Future Outlook

As I mentioned on the About page: “By 2023, I’m approaching 35, an age where some industries start thinking about retirement. So, I decided to revamp my blog and keep it going.” This blog, as a 1ip blog, will continue to focus on my work and studies in the legal field, with some life-related content mixed in, striving to integrate knowledge with practice.

Currently, hyruo.com has been set up with a 301 redirect to lawtee.com, which will remain in place for some time. Eventually, hyruo.com will transition into a personal creative space for my child. If any of my friends with linked blogs have the time, I’d appreciate it if you could update my link to lawtee.com (though it’s fine if you don’t, but I feel like I’m freeloading otherwise).

It’s already midnight, so I’ll stop here. That’s all for now.