Bought the domain

The site I had already built needed an address. I drew up about twenty candidates and checked each one for availability. Most of the good ones were long gone.

I settled on 3sonsdaddynote.com. Three sons and a dad is already the name I use on Instagram, and a note is exactly what this site is for.

I bought it at Cloudflare. Plenty of registrars discount the first year and raise the renewal; Cloudflare sells at cost and the renewal stays flat. If you plan to keep it for years, that matters.

The registration timestamp came back as 12:40. No backing out now.