Wirral Domains
I’m UK based and actually live and work in a place called Hoylake, Wirral and as a lad I lived just down the rode in Meols. With a population of over 300,000 I reckon that The Wirral offers enough scope for some localised domaining - the common sort of stuff like hotels, flowers, property, etc
I’ve registered a handful of Wirral domains this morning, making good use of a godaddy promo code giving me .coms for $6.99 (about £3.50). I’ve gone down the .com route as opposed to .co.uk - I’m yet to convince myself which is best out of the two for a UK domain. It’s a tricky call whether to go .com or ccTLD (.co.uk) for localised targetting - registering both would be the ideal but you just about double your reg fees that way.
I’ve parked some but have plans to develop Wirral Golf, Wirral Hotels and Wirral Restaurants
DomainBits Bloggers List
Over at Domain Bits you’ll find a comprehensive list of blogs published by domainers. Of course, you’ll find the obvious candidates but there are many others that you might not have stumbled upon. I’m listed there too!
via.com Sells
Further to my recent post, I understand that via.com sold at auction in sedo for $157,500, as reported by namebio.
Frank Schilling Bio
Well posted elsewhere, but in case it’s escaped your attention this is a quite informative Frank Schilling bio.
via.com
I have a passing interest in the domain via.com as it used to be owned by my ex-employers parent company over here in the UK. I’m not at all sure if they sold via.com and it is now being resold again soon after. No matter, the domain is currently up for auction on sedo and is yet to hit reserve.
Michael Gilmour: Domaining 101
It’ll be interesting to read what professional, Melbourne based (I think) domainer Michael Gilmour has to say about how to get into the domaining business. Michael (or Whizzbang) is publishing a series of posts about domaining starting here.
Hopefully, I’ll learn a few things and improve the performance of my sportscycles.com domain!
Mummy Sleeping Bags
Bagged (!) both mummysleepingbag and mummysleepingbags.co.uk this week.
Very niche but offering some potential for some affiliate earnings perhaps. Follow the link to find out what mummy sleeping bags are.
I’m also toying with developing my car shares domain - currently presenting some very off-topic ads I see.
DRMFree.co.uk
I was a little surprised to see that drmfree.co.uk was still available so I registered it straight away and it’s mine now for a couple of years. There’s been a bit of news in the press relating to the relaxation of DRM (digital rights management) controlled music so hopefully there’ll soon be a decent market for DRM free downloads.
amazon in the States are now offering DRM free tracks for download and I wonder if amazon UK will soon offer the same? For now I’ve parked the domain but it could well be suited for development.
poip.co.uk
You’ve probably heard of voip or Voice Over Internet Protocol but maybe not poip …Post Over Internet Protocol. Viapost.com is a company venturing into this emerging market, so visit them for additional information.
I’ve managed to register poip.co.uk but to-date there haven’t been any type-ins. One for the future perhaps?
Obviously, new technologies give rise to new domain name possibilities - spot a successful one that you’ve registered a domain name and you’re onto a winner. Well, it sounds easy!
Sewell and Marbury A Week On
Well, it’s been a week since I mentioned my Sewell & Marbury domain and it’s doing okay visitor wise.
On the 7th the site had it’s highest visitor count to-date of 138. Yesterday it was 100 bang on the nose. To-date the site has now had 10 direct type-ins and some 451 visitors courtesy of google search results.
The downside? Not a penny in revenue yet.