How effective is using StumbleUpon to promote a domaining blog?  I’m conducting a bit of an experiment to find out.

I’ve been using StumbleUpon for well over a year and it’s a great way to find interesting web pages, just by clicking on the Stumble button, (especially in the evening, when you’re unwinding).  It can be quite addictive. Read more …

Yep, last night, 11.15pm UK time.

I was preparing some late night snack and had the TV volume down quite low, so I didn’t hear all of it.  After some bizarre ad where a man swapped eating porridge for a 37K per year IT job, (74K in dollars), I noticed a familiar logo more commonly seen on my PC monitor. Read more …

It’s good to keep an eye on those domains which are closely related to yours, to get some idea as to whether or not the development of them will affect the value of your own domains.

If you own SportsCarHire.com, for example, how will the development of SportsCarHireUK.com affect the value of your closely related domain.  Your domain is better anyway; it will get more type-ins, it’s more generic, and has more chance of advertisers buying space on it from around the world and not just the UK. Read more …

On a recent break, I had to do a reasonable amount of travel by road and I couldn’t help noticing how many personalised number plates there were on passing cars.

I’ve noticed this trend for some time happening in our area, which is quite an affluent part of the country, but to see what it’s like elsewhere is also interesting.

Personalised number plates/ cherished number plates/ private plates, whatever you want to to call them, have been around for quite a few years, but it’s only relatively recently that a greater number of people have been buying them.  I would say that 50 percent of all the cars I see have one. Read more …

There are lots of Hollyhocks outside my window at the moment, outside of several windows actually.  Beautiful, statuesque, flowers with fantastic variety in color, are just one of the inspirations of summer.

According to Wikipedia there are sixty species of Hollyhock and the latin name of the most common is Alcea rosea. Read more …

By junk mail, I mean the physical stuff that comes through your door almost every day.  It’s not always necessarily unsolicited mail; I get plenty from my bank that I have an account with for instance, but most of it is still junk all the same.

About a year ago, Aaron Wall of SEO Book fame, wrote a great post on using junk mail to find new keywords.  It’s also a great way to create new domain names. Read more …

Firstly, I’d like to thank Francois for including my feed at Domaining.com; this site was a ‘must-see’ when I first read about it and now it’s a daily read with so many excellent contributors.

My own domaining journey started about a year ago, so I’m still learning and looking forward to learning more.

One of the parallels that is drawn in domaining is between domains and real estate.  It’s an old comparison to many established domainers, but it certainly helps when needing to keep focused.  It’s also a great way to explain to those who don’t quite ‘get it’ yet. Read more …

The Domaining business has its ups and downs like any other industry.  There are times of frustration and times of sheer joy, well at least that’s what I’ve found.

This is my official one year anniversary in the domaining world and there have been times when I’ve thought about letting it go and moving on.  However, today I’ve pulled all my domain parking stats together in a spreadsheet, which I do as much as possible to give me a clearer idea of my assets and liabilities and how to move forward.

One particular domain is doing pretty well and I’m pleased to have bought it.  It’s a holiday domain that I hand-registered for $7.50 back in the winter, so I didn’t expect it to do anything really until the holiday season was underway.  I was a bit doubtful about buying it at first, it’s not a short domain, 22 letters long actually, very long-tail in nature, but it was one that I just instinctively felt I should buy. Read more …

Actually it’s not specifically a domaining tool, but very useful none-the-less.

There are many occasions when you do research on a particular domain or in a particular niche, when you are shown a table of results for link popularity, google phrase matches, cost per click for particular search terms and so on. It’s not always easy to log the information quickly in a spreadsheet for analysis; sorting, filtering etc. Read more …

Well I’ve been fortunate enough to have a week’s holiday, which passed by far too quickly. I’m now revved up and ready for more domaining action.

As of today, I’m back full-time and one of the first encouragements I’ve found is how many good domaining groups there are springing up on Facebook. In fact my newly found Facebook friend, Ritesh belongs to a good list of domain related groups, that I just had to join. Read more …