Domain Name Madness

Yesterday I mentioned that I had registered the domain name ithermos.com due to some people searching for mac thermos on my blog. There was a bit more to it at the time but it all sounds so silly now. Today I realized that I have 6 domains that are coming due for renewal soon. I think I have a problem and am obviously in need of some sort of intervention.

Hi my name is Scott and I am addicted to registering domain names.

(Hi Scott....)

I currently have 27 domains registered. Some are for business, variations on my company and such. Others are personal. I own my name and various internet nicknames. These kind of make sense to me, at least I can justify themselves pretty easily.

The rest of them are the ones that scare me. These are the ones that are usually accompanied by some sort of plan - be it for a new business, another blog, a community site, or just because it sounds cool.

Some highlights:

ithermos.com - I already covered this one. I really have no idea what to do with it.

Jamminestjams.com - I actually have plans to start a multi-author music blog here. If you look, I have a default drupal installation there. This is one likely to go live eventually.

Ondifferentstrings.com - This one will go live eventually as well - it is slated to be a collaborative effort to promote and inspire entrepreneurs.

spikeandme.com - Was going to be the design end of my consulting biz.

thefretboards.com - Message boards for guitar players. I actually put up an SMF community as a learning / test experience. The boards are still there. The time and traffic to make it successful are not.

tinypeopleonfood.com - I looked for the post on pownce that inspired this one but couldn't find it. Was a picture of small people on a strawberry and we joked about how it would spawn a website. I'll get to it eventually.

upsidedowncats.com - I originally registered this one for a photo site like catsinsinks.com or stuffoncats.com but it is now being used brilliantly by my wife for her blog.

I've tried not to register anything for the last couple of months, and it really is getting harder to find something anyway. I was going to register panjandrum.com of all things and was surprised that it was already claimed.

So what domains do you own that are sitting unused?

SB

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Having such a common name, I wasn't able to get anything even remotely related to my name, so I registered a domain for each of my sons. Their names aren't terribly common, but you never know what may happen.

I was able to get my eldest's name easy enough, but my youngest's name is a splog. I registered his name with a hyphen for now, but I hope to get his name eventually.

Both of those point to my domain for now. Sorry to say, that's it, I haven't registered any others, except for port16.com.

#1 Mike Scott (Homepage) on 2007-11-25 09:28 (Reply)

Besides Thoughtsparks.net which is my main blog and TechFires.com which is a really cool blog that I've let languish a bit, I've registered eyeonwikipedia.com which I'm temporarily using for a freelance project that I'm using as a stop-gap URL. It originally was to be a blog on the wiki development. I also registered qaexchange.us which was another collaborative URL that has gone nowhere and not likely. These are the ones that I've not let expire. Yeah I try to stay off the domain registry sites. It's addicting isn't it. Hi, I'm Phil and I'm a domain addict...

#2 Phil (Homepage) on 2007-11-25 20:07 (Reply)

I think registering a domain name is like getting a tattoo. After you take the leap and get the first one, you can't stop at just one.

SB

#3 Scott (Homepage) on 2007-11-26 21:38 (Reply)

Well, I would have to agree with you, I did register 3 domains one after the other.

Of course, after I had my first tattoo I was broke, and couldn't afford to get any more for a long time. Same thing with tattoo #2.

Then years later, I had tattoo #3, and suddenly had tons of ideas for the next ones. I fought the urge, and didn't get any more for awhile. Tattoo #4 is coming up, and I'll see what happens after that.

I know, I strayed a little from domain names, but you started it.

#3.1 Mike Scott (Homepage) on 2007-11-26 21:55 (Reply)

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