Published at 18 August, 2007
in For Sale.
Everyone has a view on the Big Brother reality TV show - love it or hate it. This blog is about what happens next - do the contestants get back to their lives or do they become soap opera stars and pinups?
After Big Brother is a concept blog idea - what I had in mind for it was:
- tracking available public news sources about former Big Brother contestants from around the world,
- using this and a set of tagged posts as the basis for a set of country/gender/background specific categories, so that people could find their favourite (or otherwise) former contestants based on what they knew about them, then
- using available interest to start a forum for the Big Brother fan community.
Monetization was planned to be through straight advertising.
I’m not going to ask a lot for this one - it’s just a domain name and a concept at this stage. That said, if I get enthused and put some work into it so that it starts attracting some real traffic, the price will naturally go up 
If you are interested, contact me.
Published at 13 August, 2007
in For Sale.
I parked GreyWaterConsultants.com with NameDrive while I was deciding what to do with it. It would make a great ad/referral site if set up properly - some ideas I had were:
- a community site (running something like Drupal) where people discuss water re-use options and are offered advice by competing greywater consultants, who they can then rank according to the usefulness of the advice. The consultants would get the chance to strut their stuff (and advertise for free) and their readers would benefit from competitive advice.
- a referral blog where advertorials were added by one or more greywater consultant firms.
- an advertising site where a lot of AdSense/TextLinkAds match on “greywater” could be shown.
I don’t have time to develop it, perhaps you do
It had to come to this sooner or later - I’m looking at domain parking options. You know those annoying pages full of ads? I’m joining that club. It is a logical extension of the normal activity associated with active domaining I suppose - there is a limit to the number of niche sites and micro-blogs that even I can set up. With anecdotal figures of $20,000,000 for one domaining/parking company in the one year, it could be worth looking into.
Preliminary research indicates that there are a lot of domain parking options:
- GoDaddy.com provides domain parking for $8.99 a month on a 12 month prepaid contract - happily enough, as a Pro Reseller via GetYerOwn.com, I get this for free.
- NameDrive seems to be well thought of here and here.
- WhyPark will let me park 100 domain names with them for $99.95
- Trafficz are after the big guns - 100+ domains.
My choice? I’ve gone with the two free options - I’ll park some domains with GoDaddy/GetYerOwn, and I’ll park some others with NameDrive. It looks like NameDrive will be the better content to advertisement match, time will tell.
(Originally posted on The Blog Collector)
Published at 30 July, 2007
in Tips.
Domaining is becoming a big business. There are few reliable free sources of information that aren’t tied to a particular reseller or parking solution.
Following are some helpful links to get you started:
- NamePros.com is a very useful and open forum dedicated to domaining.
- DoshDosh has a useful article on 26 different forums that include domaining information and SEO/marketing (and it is where I learnt about NamePros.com).
- Overture’s Keyword Selector Tool is ostensibly for keyword popularity - it will give you an idea about how popular a given domain name might be based on the combination of words within the name.
Over time I will update these links and use the information to grow a proper Active Domaining Squidoo Lens.
Published at 30 July, 2007
in About.
Hello. My name is Andrew and I am a blog collector.
God help me
Some people think about good ideas and write them down. Myself, since I switched onto the possibilities of blogging a couple of months back, I’ve been buying domain names and starting blogs as a niche presents itself to my imagination.
There is a method to the madness - I’ve noticed that domain names are worth more when something of value has been added to them. I’m not a full-on domainer - I’ve bought a couple of dozen domain names, not hundreds of them - I’m developing a concept called active domaining - basically, it’s about value-adding and experimenting within various niches to see which are the best, and then I plan to sell off the rest, just keeping the couple of blogs that might be worth the most.
This flies in the face of conventional blogger wisdom - that of having one or two blogs and working them hard. At the least, I’ll end up with a bunch of domain names that are worth more than their purchase price - and if things work out, they might work out very well.