How many domain names do you own?

Posted by Sebastien | Filed under Business, Internet, Random, Tech

I was working on my computer today when all the sudden this old URL I used to own came back in my mind. The URL in question is TMJ-Help.org (I know it’s a terrible URL but it was the first domain I ever purchased and I didn’t have much experience). I wondered if I still owned this URL or if I had released it.

After logging in to my GoDaddy account (I use GoDaddy for domain management), I realized I still own it. I actually own more URLs than I thought… Here is a list of them all with a little description of what I do with them.

  • www.AforAndroid.com is a blog that aggregates news about Google’s (not so) new OS’ Andoid. I am a firm believer that Android will kick the iPhone’s ass some day soon. I still love my iPhone but I will switch to Android in a heartbeat. This blog has no purpose but sitting around. One day it might be worse millions, who knows… Just kidding.
  • www.FforFranchise.com is the same as A for Android. It just aggregates franchise-related news from various places. Why a franchise site? Because that’s the industry I’ve been working in for the last 4 years…
  • www.FranchiseBrief.com is also a site about franchising. It lists over 500 franchise opportunities, making it one of the largest franchise directories out there. I haven’t touched this website in months and it went from a PR 4 to a PR 0 :(
  • www.iForiPhone.com is, once again, a news aggregator for iPhone. Nothing really creative about it. It’s just sitting there and I have nothing to do with it to maintain it as it is auto populated with content.
  • www.iPhoneDownloadBlog.com is my main iPhone blog. It actually is the blog on which I spend the most time. This blog is about hacks and cracks for the iPhone. If you’re an iPhone owner and you still rely on Apple for your applications, well, sorry, but you’re missing out. Jailbreaking your iPhone is the best thing that can happen to it and it will set you free from Apple’s evil claws.
  • www.iPodMediaSelection.com was my second domain name and it made me a lot of money last year. I don’t do anything on that site anymore. It’s just sitting here, generating an affiliate sale every once in a while.
  • www.Podpaganda.com redirects to iPodMediaSelection.com. I am not sure why I bought this domain name in the first place but I remember finding the name pretty cool. I don’t know if you noticed how I am playing with words: podpaganda = propaganda. Yes? No?
  • www.SebastianPage.com is my name misspelled and it redirects to SebastienPage.com.
  • www.SebastienPage.com is the blog you are currently reading. Mostly nothing really interesting to most people. Some people might like it though as I get decent amounts of traffic.
  • www.TMJ-Help.org is as I said above, the first domain name I purchased. It redirects to an affiliate page selling methods for people with bad TMJ. Now I remember that I didn’t want to renew this domain but I kept making affiliate sales on it without doing anything, so I renewed it for another year. We’ll see how it goes.
  • www.YogaZee.com is a yoga blog that Tina works on. The goal is to make it a large yoga class directory, with news and articles that are related to yoga.

Some of these domain names are pretty ugly, especially the TMJ one… To my defense though, I think the domain name doesn’t matter much. As long as it doesn’t contain hyphens or numbers or as long as it’s not more than 15 letters, it is good. After all, I am not trying to create an online empire here…

My latest thing is domain names starting with a letter + the full word, such as “F for Franchise”. Such URLs are short, easy to remember, and they are available!

See also:

Optimizing your URLs
Intwition: tracking links on Twitter
Increasing online registrations

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3 Responses to “How many domain names do you own?”

  1. puffin Says:
    August 19th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    My first comment with my attached website… ha ha.. This is not the reason I am commenting, though… I have a ton of info on TMJ… which I would be happy to provide to you for a small price.

  2. Sebastien Says:
    August 22nd, 2008 at 12:21 am

    Yeahh puffin! Hmm, what would the price be? Can I pay you in love and kisses?

  3. FlyingFingers Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    If Sue Grafton can sell an entire book series off the basic ABC title model and make millions, it can’t be too awful, right ;) It could be something catchy to alert your followers it’s one of your sites…when you get famous of course.

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