Sometime last year I decided it was time to start blogging the life of Mera Pixel within Second Life.  So I went out to register merapixel.com.  What?  Not available?  Some minor digging found that merapixel.com was registered *two days* before Mera Pixel, the avatar, was created.

Well when Mera turned one year old, I rechecked the merapixel.com domain, it hadn't been renewed.  Hooray!  A month later it was expired, yet still unavailable as it moved out of the expired status.  Two months, same thing.  Three months, still the same.  I started checking daily, sure it would come up soon.  Then one day…registered by someone else!  Who wants merapixel.com??  It spent an entire year as a registered domain without a site, am I just doomed to not have my own name as my domain?

Well as an interesting turn of events, I was renewing some domains that I own and decided to search on merapixel.com just one more time.  It was available!  So yup, that's right, http://MeraPixel.com/ is online.  Looks pretty darn similar to this site that you're reading right now, too!