A few weeks ago, I was sitting in an all-hands meeting for my day job when a text came in. It was from Michael, the owner of horseboarding.com, asking if I might be interested in buying the domain. He was focused on other web projects, wasn’t using it, and wanted it to stay in the horse community. He had noticed how quickly Horse Livery Finder was growing and thought the domain could be a good home for the project.
We texted back and forth for a few weeks and came to an agreement. I’m excited to announce that Horse Livery Finder is moving to a shorter web address: horseboarding.com.
The name Horse Livery Finder isn’t changing, and neither is the website. The map, yard listings, and accounts will remain the same. Only the web address is changing.
The shorter address is easier to remember, say, and type on a phone in a stable yard with cold hands. The original address has served the site well, and it will remain available so people can continue using links they’ve already shared or saved.
Why the address is changing
When I started Horse Livery Finder, the original domain made the site’s purpose clear. It was descriptive, but it was also long and had two hyphens. Those details can make an address harder to remember, especially when someone hears it in conversation or tries to type it on a phone.
Horseboarding.com is shorter and easier to pass along. It also uses the phrase many horse owners in North America, where most of the listings are, already use when looking for a place to keep their horses.
The shorter address doesn’t mean the site is becoming something different. Horse Livery Finder is still built around a simple idea: helping horse owners find livery yards with available space, without having to ring one yard after another just to find out who has room.
What stays the same
When you visit horseboarding.com, you’ll find the same Horse Livery Finder.
The home page has a map and a list of livery yards. Availability indicators show which yards are reporting available space and which have marked themselves as full. Yard pages include information supplied and maintained by the owners, such as descriptions, prices when provided, facilities, photos, and contact details.
Owners manage their own listings and update their availability as spaces open up or fill. The goal is to make it easier for horse owners to see what’s available while giving both large equestrian centres and small private yards a place on the same map.
A listing is a starting point, not a guarantee that a particular horse will be accepted. Availability can change, so it’s still important to contact the yard, ask questions, and decide whether it is right for your horse.
The site will continue to serve horse owners in different parts of the world. In the United States and Canada, people commonly say horse boarding. In Britain and Ireland, livery is widely used, while agistment is familiar in Australia and New Zealand. The shorter domain doesn’t change the terminology used throughout the site and its articles.
Searching remains free, and horse owners don’t need an account to browse the map or view yard information. Horse Livery Finder helps people find yards; livery arrangements are made directly between the horse owner and the yard.
For horse owners
You can keep using your existing bookmarks and saved links. If you have a link to a particular yard, you shouldn’t need to search for it again simply because the domain has changed.
You can also visit horseboarding.com directly and search for yards by location.
For yard owners
If you already have a listing, you don’t need to create another one. Your existing listing, photos, description, pricing, facilities, and availability will remain in place.
Your login details won’t change, either. You can continue using your account dashboard to manage your listing and update available spaces as usual. Any existing listing renewal requirements will also remain the same.
If you’ve shared your yard link in a Facebook group, on your own website, or in an email, there’s no need to delete older posts just because they contain the original address. When you next update a leaflet, website, or social media post, you can use the shorter address instead.
What happens to the old address?
The original address, horse-boarding-finder.com, will remain available during the transition. Existing links will continue working through redirects to horseboarding.com, including links to individual yard pages.
That matters because yard links have already been shared in Facebook groups, sent to friends, and saved for future reference. Yard owners may also have the original address on their websites or in their email signatures.
Once the redirects are in place and working, you shouldn’t have to update every old link at once. If you maintain a website or other page linking to Horse Livery Finder, you can update those links to the shorter address when convenient.
You may see both addresses in search results or older posts for a while. Both refer to Horse Livery Finder, but the official new address is horseboarding.com.
Please be careful not to confuse it with similar-looking addresses. The new domain is one word, without a hyphen: horseboarding.com. The original domain is horse-boarding-finder.com.
Looking ahead
Horse Livery Finder will continue to grow with the help of yard owners who keep their listings up to date and horse owners who use and share the map. The goal remains simple: make it easier to find livery yards with available space, wherever you’re looking for a place for your horse.
The new address is one small step toward making that easier. I hope horseboarding.com will be simpler to remember, easier to share, and useful to even more people in the horse community.