A Biker's Domain

Got a kick out of seeing this article on www.domainingblog.com with the title "Cards.biz Sells for $11,750 to Make it the Highest Reported Dot Biz Sale of the Year-To-Date". It's just another domain that I sold to a friend cheap to send funds to the ex-wife. I've sold so many on the low down like this one just to see them resold at 20 times the price and then end up on Ron's www.DNjournal.com top sales charts. By the way, Ron had once told me that he wouldn't be in the business if I hadn't bot the first 20 domain names he had for sale. I'm glad I did too, as he's one of the stars in the industry now. Actually, if it wasn't for my ex-wife, I wouldn't have the title of the biggest seller of alternative extension domains (.info, .biz, .us, .ws etc) in the market. I guess that's something huh? But you can't eat the crown.

There will be a story in the November issue of Business 2.0 (out on the 28th) titled "Master$ Of Their Domain$" and the slug line "Forget condos and strip malls. Domain names, the real estate of the Web, have been delivering far greater returns. How some of the savviest speculators on the Net are making millions from their URL portfolios."

Should make interesting reading. Ron from our industry trade publication "DNjournal.com" had this to say about the upcoming article "I think it will draw a tremendous amount of attention from investors because it talks about this previously unknown industry where tens of millions of dollars are changing hands every year. The writer (Paul Sloan) details how the whole PPC system works (complete with a diagram) that makes it very easy for non-domainers to grasp. A lot of mainstream business people will be slapping their foreheads when this comes out, going "how did we miss this!"

I think we haven't seen much in the way of covergae of this industry from the main investment publications for a couple of reasons. First, the domainers make their living thru advertising that might otherwise go to those same publications, so why would they want to draw attention to a competitor? Second, the investment industry has yet to slap these new types of investment into packages that they can then resell to the general investing public thru a hedgefund or some other traditional vehicle. With public companies now spending hundreds of $millions on domain portfolios and the introduction of venture capital firms, this could all change very quickly.

Axel F. "Biker Frog"

I picked up a few domains focused on the BIG time trend towards using videos in websites and blogs. With more and more people having high speed access, combined with the success of devices like the Ipod or cellphones (with the ability to download and play short clips) it's a move that can't be ignored. Axel (above on the top left) became a quick star over in the UK and headed over to the US back in September. Watch the video HERE for a kick. Too close to a cartoon clip of a biker being chased by the "man" for me to not have to smile. Think you will too. I see that some top blogs that incorporate video from news tv do very well, such as www.CrooksandLiars.com that gets 200,000 views each day. I've also seen a few of my parked names picking up traffic, such as www.SkaterVideos.com We'll see if I can move in quick enough to take advantage of this stuff. Could be fun too.

There was discussion today on the forums about LaPorte Holdings (NameKing) letting a large number of typo versions of trademarked domains expire and drop. Several Domainers that do this kind-of typosquatting were talking about being "amazed" that the company would let these "valuable" names go, and their scramble to bid at the auctions on them. The company was hit by a court order to pay out 6 $figures in a TM settlement, and a post said that a notice was put out by Enom that the registrar arm of LaPorte would not be acting as a drop catcher for "Club Drop" anymore. Appears that domainers that had names with them are also having problems getting access to transfer.

Actually I'm glad to see some of these slimeballs get hit with these court actions. Typosquatters give the rest of us honest Domainers a bad name. I've posted my feelings about this in the forum threads involving the squatters and even added a suggestion to the advisory board (I'm a member) that a seperate forum be created for those dealing in this type of stuff, and that a notice be attached that the majority of the Domainers on the main forum do NOT condone typosquatting. In the past I've been absolutely hammered by the typo crowd (mostly foreigners) who don't like me calling it for what it is. Outright theft.

It also amazes me that the registrars, drop catchers and auction houses that trade in these Trademarked names are allowed to continue and profit. How is it that a Domainer that pays Snapnames, Pool, or Enom large amounts of money ($thousands) per trademark typo name can get hit by a court action and fined, when the service that sold him the name goes unscathed? These companies know they are basically selling the means (tools) by which these thiefs operate to steal from the real trademark owner.

.ES
Spain's Domain

Well, I'm having a bit of fun watching the ruckus as the registry for the .ES country code top level domain (ccTLD) opens up the extension for anyone to reg. As expected, the landrush is frustrating the heck out of the participants (I'm not in yet) even though us old hands warned them about all the pitfalls. You know it's got to be rigged every way but Friday. I'm sure Bribes are common, and fraud of course just like in the .info rollouts. Heck, I'd be interested in participating if I felt the thing wasn't "fixed". I see some of the guys reporting that their credit cards have been hit for big bucks for "pre-reg" fees way over and above what they had ok'd. Reminds me of the $thousands I lost to unscrupulous registrars (mostly foreign) in the previous extension landrushes. Some registrars are probably just taking large $fees and probably won't bother to even submit 1 name. Happened in the .info release. Well, I'm going to submit for only 2 names tomorrow directly thru the registry just to see what happens. Best check their time difference. Bets that I won't get the names? Will let you know.

I see the GoDaddy products discount code "David" pop up on threads all over the various forums now. I know where it first came from and what inspired it. So I thought I'd post a little contest on Adam's www.DNforum.com and RJ's www.NamePros.com just to see if anybody else has a clue or even cares for that matter. I offered a reward in the currency of each forum to the first poster with the right answer. I doub't they could even call GoDaddy and find out the right answer. If they don't get it pretty soon, I'm gonna reveal the answer in this here blog. Not that it's really a big deal, but sometimes NOT getting the final answer drives some of us domainers even crazier than we already are.

Edited to add: The answer was that the "David" code came from the first GoDaddy radio show, and was inspired by the host "David Lawrence". Heck, if you were to listen to the archives of that first show, you'd even get to hear my voice asking GoDaddy's CEO Bob Parsons some pointed questions.

It's all foreign to me. Here I am posting to my "Blogger" blog and yet, this week (on the sly), I checked out their competitor "Movable Type" (MT). I was motivated by the Cartel's interest in a blog model for our Locations niche as well as for the possible use in my Bankruptcy case studies for the suits.

Why not just stay with "Blogger" you say? Well, I was concerned with not having the use of what they call trackbacks on rss feeds. You see, those trackback things are rumored to aid in search engine optimization by placing a link on the site where an article originates. Well, things didn't go too smooth. Heck, I came out of pocket again just to try to make setting things up as easy as possible. Nothing doin. I even went thru a partner of MT for hosting, that supposedly provided experience and the install of the commercial setup. What I wanted (naive) was to pay my fees for the hosting and install and be ready to start posting away with research/content I'd amassed. What I got instead was what looked like some kind of challenge game for coders. I wasn't ready to give up on it even after 3 days (and nights) straight of just trying to get a template working. With the lack of sleep, I was starting to get a bit ticked. Even with years of experience with website addresses and the like, I can definately admit I'm still "Lo Tech". Heck, I even turned it over to Weenie and she messed with it the last night, only to leave me a note in the morning saying she could only get some basics done. That's it, I give up. I'll be calling the host tomorrow and telling them if they still want me as a long term client, they will need to set the prog up and install ALL of the plugins or whatever they call them. Then I'll just remove what I don't want and go from there. Seems to me that all these things should be "drag and drop" wysiwyg and people like me should never ever see (let alone need to learn) a single piece of code. Well, I'm back to my "Blogger" and who knows, maybe they'll implement the trackback thing at some point and I'll be happy.

Back in black
I hit the sack
I've been too long I'm glad to be back
Yes, I'm let loose
From the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I've been looking at the sky
'Cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse 'cause I never die
I got nine lives
Cat's eyes
Abusin' every one of them and running wild

CHORUS:
'Cause I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back
Yes, I'm back
Well, I'm back, back
I'm back in black
Yes, I'm back in black

Back in the back
Of a Cadillac
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
I'm in a bang
With a gang
They've got to catch me if they want me to hang
Cause I'm back on the track
And I'm beatin' the flack
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now
I'm just makin' my play
Don't try to push your luck, just get out of my way
CHORUS

One of my compadres (Costa) over at http://www.USforum.us is working on a new business model and hoping to help make a name out of the .us extension. He plans on a social networking / community for bands/artists/users, close to myspace.com but on a more professional and ecommerce driven note. He already has put together 6 million pages of content and the site will launch in December 2005, planning to be the most visited .us site to date. Already, music.us gets 3 million page views a month and this is growing WITHOUT memberships. I was pleasantly surprised to also see that Google shows at least 10,400 backlinks already for the site and it’s not even done. Nice looking site too, check it out! http://www.music.us/ “Costa” is Contantinos Roussos of Los Angeles. Now with the success of that site following the great http://del.icio.us/ it has to speak well for the potential success of a Cartel partner’s (Mr. Blonde) upcoming site Business.us and who knows, could even inspire me to lofty levels with Bikers.us.

“Fans' rant sites rankle as many as they amuse”

Found a story today (by Terry Hutchens of IndyStar.com) talking about a company that has set up a site selling domains that call for the dismissal of several college football coaches. At redshirted.com, Nebraska followers can buy the FireBillCallahan.com domain for $250, while a similar url for Iowa's Kirk Ferentz is running $150. For $100 you could have addresses for Virginia's Al Groh, Washington State's Bill Doba or Kansas' Mark Mangino. The hatchet already has fallen on former Indiana coach Gerry DiNardo, but you still may purchase that domain for $100. Or, for the bargain basement price of $50, you could own FireTerryHoeppner.com.

This is not an entirely new idea, Google any current coach, and odds are you'll come across ones just like http://www.firetiller.com/ -- where disgruntled Purdue fans go to bash Joe Tiller. There are also numerous domains for sites named YankeesSuck.com or RepublicansSuck.com etc. but I found the idea unique in that these “fire” domains actually call for an action. A step up perhaps or would a step down be more descriptive of the trend? Those that don’t agree with the suggested firings, tend to get pretty upset about these sites, but Former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie said he doesn't understand the fuss. "If you're in this profession and you let something like that bother you, you're too thin-skinned,'' Davie said. "I look at it more of being an entertainment thing and almost like a tongue-in-cheek thing sometimes.'' Supporters of the current coaches are now taking steps to buy these names as a defensive move (similar to the corporations). Firejimtressel.com was founded in support of the Ohio State coach. Open the site, and it reads, "Fire Jim Tressel? Are you NUTS? This domain is parked to keep it out of the hands of folks who shouldn't be trusted with kitchen utensils, let alone Web sites."

The names come with the one-time purchase fee and only cost around $10 per year to maintain. Cheaper than getting a megaphone for the game and more likely you’ll actually be heard too.

It's come to my attention that a group of People/Companies holding some of the best (and most valuable) .info domains have NOT had to pay a renewal fee for years, and the registry says "may not have to pay for 5 or more years into the future". Plenty of them out there just like Mortgages.infoThese tier 1 infos were taken with false sunrise claims back in the landrush, are known as fraudulent by the registry, and are continually renewed for free. The crooks continue to have the full use of them to display whatever.When questioned about the theft, some of these people readily admit to the action. When the registry (Afilias) is questioned about it, and about their inaction over the years in the face of it, they respond that they "don't handle registrant issues, as they only work for the registrars". In fact the only phone lines provided to the registry "are provided only for the use of the registrars". Registrars holding the registrations do NOT respond to emails. Nor does ICANNt for that matter. Who is it that represents the registrants (domainers) in this industry we fund again?

Behind a lot of it.

I was reading the news this morning as I always do cause I have alerts set up and delivered to my email box throughout the day. (self-imposed torture) It's incredible how so many things that are just wrong are going on today at the hands of profiteers. Profiteers being way too nice of a term for them, these acts not only just hurt the American people, it kills them. Not to mention so many others around the world. These scondrels are so blantant about it all as well, and have so many that voted for them fooled into thinking they represent them. I read about Halliburton (Cheney's company) subsidiaries double billing for soldiers meals in Iraq or charging $100 per bag of laundry. In addition to $Billions in Iraq contracts handed to them from Bush, they now will be profiting hugely from no bid contracts in the Katrina recovery. The new bankruptcy law (republican sponsored) that takes affect in October will no doubt crush the Katrina victins even further if that's possible. I have a Niece and a Nephew who are in the military and were sent to Louisiana shortly after Katrina and reported back that they were given orders to NOT take action to help. At least they're not in Iraq right now getting killed to support Bush's war profiteers. New Jersey is chasing down gas stations that go against the law and sell regular gas marked as premium and raise their prices 4 or 5 times during the same day. Ton's of bad stuff.

That led me to think of regging another domain (sheesh!) to maybe serve as a blog to just dump every article documenting whats wrong with stuff. It's these whims that drive me nuts (or entertain if I'm in a good mood to start). Anyway, I looked up WhatsWrong.com and of course I'm too late and it was regged 5 years ago in December, 2000. Going for a backup, I also tried JustWrong.com and that one was regged a year earlier in November, 1999. There was some recurring realization that came from this exercise though. Domains that end in .com and have meaning were all taken several years ago, so get on with development and quit wasting time checking whois records.

I came across a post in the "Websites for Sale" thread on DNforum where a fellow Domainer has his www.Cannabis.com website posted looking for offers. It's listed on Ebay as well now. He has current offers of over $250k and is looking for $500k+. Now that's a nice piece of change. He states that the site averages about 7500 visitors per day and grosses between $7k and $10k per month. Now if that's correct (he provides stats pages) then owning and running just that one site could be a very profitable job/career/pasttime. Much of the value is in the Domain of course as some success could be expected of someone using the same name for type-in url bar traffic and covering the same or similar topics that are on the site for sale here, or on several other sites covering marijuana. The content appears to include a VB forum in large part covering the various topics. How tough would it be to create a new website that covers the same theme and maybe make a couple $k after a while? Not that I have the background or intimate knowledge of the subject. I do own a Domain that would seem to have some potential for such a site though that I picked up in a drop a couple years back. It's www.MarijuanaForum.com and as you can see, I haven't done anything with it to date. With some hosting, a VB forum license (around $100 a year), some thought and research, and some time spent at promotion it might come to be. $2k a month in revenues might make that site worth around $75K me thinks. I wonder if my son would have an interest?

Lips courtesy of a forum friend "Prosperous"




Why I think the .US ccTLD Domain will drive the next frontier for the Internet.

I don't receive or read any newspapers. I check them online. I don't get the local news via my satellite tv connection. I check the local news online. The main hardware store is a round trip 1 hour drive, and I don't want to spend the $ on gas to find out they don't have what I wanted. I'd rather check out their inventory online. I don't have much belief in the future for the yellow pages directory and their high cost ads that provide little information. Nor do I believe in the status quo for the other media (TV and Radio) and their earning trends bear that out. (Can you say XM radio?) The Internet is eating their lunch a snack bar at a time. Google didn't get into local search just for the hype. Local search IS minimal now. but it won't BE minimal. A $ spent on a local TV commercial NOW does give small business pwners more bang for the buck now, but it WON"T in the future. That move forward is a big deal for the NET and what people do now to find information locally will not be the same thing they do in the future. The .US extension is afterall best used as a geographical qualifier. I see Rapid-City.US/hardware as having a lot of potential as an address.. I'm telling you these gas engines will be the new thing. They have that horse of yours beat hands down, and I'm telling you that you WILL change your mind along with everone else. The .US domain extension can be that engine.

I've cleaned up my desk -- see pic -- and it's time to get focused. I have way too many domains and I definately should take a different action than I have to date in dealing with names to let go. My routine was to just wait till the expiration date or just after and make a decision whether to drop the domains or renew. Now with the latest moves by many registrars to cut back the grace periods (the time afforded registrants after the expiration of a domain to renew) from the lofty levels of 42 days in the past, now down to 18 days by GoDaddy and others, I'm being pushed to look at this stuff earlier if I don't want to lose them. I hear Domainsite and other registrars that participated in the free info promo last year are sending the delete button on the expiration date now and providing NO grace period at all. Even worse, the rumor is that Enom is hitting the delete button BEFORE the domains expire and Netsol is marking ALL domain extensions as "expired" a day in advance of when they actually expire. The reason for a lot of this is the cherry picking of names by the registrars from their own customer's accounts and the sale at auction at higher amounts. Nothing done about it by ICANN or the registries as they don't appear to care about the registrants who are feeding this whole thing, but rather consider the registrar as their customer.

Besides, I should be running in advance of expirations to identify possible sales, so I could make a buck to help cover renewals. Kills me when I see names I let go getting picked up in the auctions at Snapnames etc. Like I said, I need to get focused anyways. So lining up all my names according to expiration date and selecting keepers that more fit my development plans will be the goal.

We'll see how it goes today.

My feeling is that the demand for the .US country code top level domain (ccTLD) and resulting price increase will come from a few different factions. *The continual rise in .com values will be reflected in prices paid by the cheap seats crowd for alternatives. Kindof a high tide lifts all ships thing. *Foreign corporations (all sizes) will increase their use of the .us extension enabling them to "buy" their way in cheaply to hopefully some level of acceptance during the coming push for isolationism by Americans. Globalism will continue of course, but Americans have a bad taste LEFT over from the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts etc.*Increasing development focus and shift from drop catching by domainers, and an overall increase in development by the public.*Local search will have a big impact on small business website development. Less url-bar type-ins and increased search savvy techniques by the masses. The local hair salon cannot afford the com domain but would settle for the .us address, creating a ground up or grass roots movement.As for current .us domain sales levels, I would suggest that we not be so quick to judge a market based on "reported" sales to date. As we've seen lately in disclosures by Deal Jam and others in the com arena, there are also unreported .US sales that would turn a few heads. Four figure .us sales were going on right after the introduction years ago now and I know of quite a few five figure sales following those. There are reasons for non-disclosure including running silent when you're on the buy side. Sometimes the news gets out. A personal .us purchase by one of my partners recently was rumored bid to mid 5 figures before being pulled from an ebay auction. He bot Business.us and I'm sure Duke (DNjournal.com) will have some notes on that one this week. Doc

Local search -- Part Two


Like I said, search will go local. That means even higher demand for website addresses (Domains) for the small businesses in town that didn't think they could benefit from or need a website. As the population becomes more tech savvy, (meaning the old computer avoiders convert or die off) I think it will become common place to use search to research purchases from local vendors. I mean have you checked out the gas prices lately? It's a 1/2 hour drive (and the gas cost) for me each way to hit the "local" music store just to find out that they didn't have that C/D that my son wanted anyway. Would have been nice to go online to that shop, punched in the Title and not wasted the trip.

The BIG guys (Google, Yahoo, Amazon etc.) see this stuff and are pouring tons of money into local search and new methods of bringing the World Wide Web to your town. The picture at the top of this article was from the A9.com website http://maps.a9.com/?mapMode=m&mapBvr=&ypLoc=Boston%2C+MA&mapFrom=&mapTo= where they'll even show you a street level image of the local shop in some areas. They're expanding too.

In addition to the demand of Domains from local business, there will be the continuing demand for Domains that actually include the name of your town. That's due to the idea that someone who is transferring to your town, may start his/her search by typing in the name of the town in the search bar, and then using the links on one of the sites to view that house for sale next door to you. Or, with the public becoming more savvy on search, he/she might type in something such as "Homes for Sale in Minneapolis MN" and bring up results including a website address such as http://www.minneapolis-minnesota.us/ Of course the purchasing of these location Domains already started a couple years ago, and you'd be hard pressed to find one available now at the cost of a new reg fee. There are a small number for sale to speculators or end users now in the secondary markets though that appear to be at reasonable prices. For the time being anyway.

Pic: My window on the world and lunch at Howard Johnson's NY Times Square
from: A9.com




Local search Part 1 -- Where's the menu?

I really believe that a good part of the future for search and the advertising revenues will come from small businesses. That means 'Local" search, like you looking up the phone number for the pizza place 6 blocks away, or going online to check out their menu again for the millionth time because it's not on the fridge where it's suppose to be. Why use that dumb yellow book that is so bulky and the ads hard to read? They don't have the menu in there anyway. Instead, you can go online, type in your own address or zipcode, and the keyword "pizza" and boom there you have every pizza joint within a selected distance from where you are sitting right now. Not only do you have an address listing with a phone number, you have a map pointing out their location, directions on how to get there if you forgot, and in a number of locations you can click on a Satellite image and see the frickin place right there. Still more, you can zoom in and see the delivery guy's truck parked outside. That's all fun, but you wanted the menu. That means that you'd have to go to the trouble of clicking the link to the Pizza shop itself right on the screen there. Someday soon I'm sure you won't even have to bother calling them. You'll just select what you want there on the screen, and tell them to deliver it and hurry up.

I hear they have been there a few times now and have their favorite hole. Speaking of, Mrs. Junior Bush has been interviewed on TV and twice now referred to the "trouble" caused by Hurricane "Corrina". No clue huh? It's "Katrina" Duh!

I'm going to try just a little text with a link to my STURGIS site to see what happens when I ping it.

eNom HQ


I talked to GoDaddy and Enom recently and they use the term "Mock redemption" pretty frequently now with their move toward exclusive drops.We domainers are familiar with the term "Redemption", but here's a new twist.At Enom, when some names expire, we expect that they go to the "expired list" where we can select them for renewal. It now appears that some names once expired don't ever make it to that list. Even worse, some of those names when selected to renew are returned with a "This name cannot be renewed" message, and will NOT go to your cart. Worse still, they will pick and choose some names (say that expired 4-3-05) to forward to "mock redemption" leaving names with earlier expiration dates (say 4-1-05) still in the expired list. What a surprise when it's found that the names they chose to move to "mock redemption" are some of the more valuable .coms.The problem is compounded when they pay the fee to renew and all whois services show the expiration dates as 4-3-06 including the whois link at the bottom of the redemption list page on Enom itself. Enom does NOT send the owner (their customer) an email telling them they have done this.I'm also wondering how Enom etc. can list those names as in "redemption" when they are really in "mock redemption"? Further, how can several customer support people at Enom state varying expiration grace periods and the powers that be, may decide to end the grace period on certain cherry picked names at their discretion and in difference to the rest of the expired names?The warnings about the possibility of registrars confusing the order and pushing certain names to redemption instead of other names of the same expiry date to charge the higher redmption fee ($160) or get control of the names (for their move to exclusive drop services) has been warned about before. In the case of Enom, it certainly looks to be happening. Otherwise, how did they decide which names to put through "mock redemption" earlier than the other expired names?What angers me is that I have been a huge customer for Enom, and have had to use domain portfolio software from independent providers to manage thousands of names. When Enom does NOT place some names in the expired list for my renewal and instead picks certain names themselves to renew through this "mock redemption" all my services indicate that these names are still under my email address and renewed. So far all they say is that "yes it doesn't seem right, but that's the policy they have now". Policy? Thank God they haven't gone so far as to set a "policy" that they can just steal the names BEFORE they expire. Maybe that's next.

Well, now something new has started in the alternative secondary market. It's kindof a secret for now, but people will start to learn about it one way or the other. Just depends on what end of the gun they're facing. Think strong arm Capiche?

I've had a signature line on my forum posts for some time now that said "Some day Domainers will have a voice in their Industry". Well will wonders never cease, it has begun. Of course the current powers that be (ICANN, The Registries, and The Registrars) have no clue. Domainers have long suffered at the hands of these profit takers, but now, things are slowly turning around.

Of course it eventually had to happen. It was clear that if the Domainers could ever stop competing with each other and form some kind of union or coop, they would at least have their voice. Since they are the source of funding for the industry, they would eventually wield the choice.

All I can say for now is watchout you registrar pigs, lest ye be boycott.

Can you say "Anti-Pool" or "Cartel"?

I don't think the 2 (or more) word CityState names work in any extension except the .com. Domainers seem brainwashed into thinking that hyphens are bad in all extensions just because they usually mess up any url bar type-ins that a choice of the .com would otherwise receive. That is the opposite case in the alternative extensions, where you aren't looking for url bar type-in traffic anyways. Instead, you're looking for search bar type-ins for traffic. In that case, the use of hyphens is actually a benefit. It helps with SEO in a few ways. Sometimes it helps save a click by avoiding the "did you mean" response by Google, it's many times easier to read by the readers, several search engines handle the parsing of the two (or more) words much easier, and backward links using the url carry more impact on page rank etc.

The main motivator, if you're not Bill Gates, the keywords are usually less scarce and cheaper to boot.
Doc

Maybe a new occupation like air conditioning installation? Had to try the name out on the truck.
It just represents my current desires to avoid the Domain Drop Catching biz for a while and get into something more constructive like the air conditioning biz. Nah! I will shift my focus to website development though. Not that I couldn't be successful chasing names. After looking at the numbers from last year, I was one of the most active in the game. Maybe I'm burnt out? The thing is that it takes a ton of work, what with monitoring the zones and watching the drop services and keeping up the maintenance on backorders, and competing in auctions. What a pain huh? Well, my back took it better than my chair. The thing broke down on me and I had to exchange it for another new one. The old one wasn't but a few months old and warrantied for 10 years. lol That should tell you something about the intensity of sitting in front of a screen for 18 hours a day, over and over and over again.
OK that's it, nap time.
Doc

Other than to remember that I'm not a "Big Wheel" yet, I've added this picture so you guys can see the type of wheels I have going on the Harley. I've learned over the years that those skinny 21 inch wheels/tires you see on the softtails, or a lot of the custom choppers may look cool, but they aren't too functional for long (and even short) rides. You hit a pot hole hard and you dent the rim in. You ride down an old road and the black repair squiggle lines (worms) take that wheel where they want it to go rather than you. Groves? Fagedaboudit! The 16 inch solids do the trick for this old biker.

Don't worry, I know what looks very cool too. I'll upload a pic of my custom bike project "Fat Train" as soon as I'm done messing with it.
Doc

First Post --A Genesis - or a beginning of clear space on my Desk.

With this first post, I'd like to thank Adam Dicker and his crew for motivating a low-tech like me. It will give me a little experience with blogs as I've had none before. (I've owned and sold premium blog domains, but never actually written in one) So, here goes nothin as they say.

I'm thinking this might be a good way to release some energy about various domain related issues, without gumming up the works of the forums. Hopefully, it will also help me clean up my desk which is currently covered with thousands of those little yellow sticky notes so I can someday (theory) convert a few of the "to do" ideas into reality. Better to stick them on this blog huh? Then with the abilities of the archive I can look back someday and find out what the heck I was thinking.

Just regged another couple domains (PostitBlog.com and PostitBlogs.com) cause I thought those were kinda cool. Sometimes I just do a few of those "on a whim" domains. Sometimes, someone actually wants to buy them later. (Will wonders never cease?) Usually I just keep renewing them until I realize it was a dumb idea. That has taken up to 3 years sometimes. DUH!

Today, I have to force myself to look at several hundred domains that need to be sold and the proceeds delivered to the ex-wife. Divorced as we are, I still resent what seems to be her forced partnership in this little business. Oh well. I'm going to be sorting the names for sale by extension and labeling them "Court ordered Sale Part 1 or Part 2 etc". My friends on the forums have been very supportive and know the real pain it is sometimes to lose names that you really wanted to keep.

Well, maybe that's enough for the first post. I have no idea how this is going to come out, or the length of this post on the blog site, but we'll find out huh?

Stay tuned for the next "Post it"
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