Back in 1998 I registered AudioCD.com. In those days Network Solutions was the only way to register a domain and Internic.net allowed me to search for domain names. I found some dictionary databases and lists of common English phrases and ran millions of checks against the whois database looking for good domain names. NetSol shut me down after about a month where I was hitting them at 40,000 request an hour. I discovered lots of good names. In those days there were even a few two character names still available. I remember that I could have registered several cool two digit domains with a dash in them like “-0” or “Z-” and I should have. Who knew?<\/p>\n
I found AudioCD which seemed to me to be a money maker, and I bought the domain for $40. In those days you needed a DNS to buy a domain so I used my companies DNS. I’ve sat on the domain since, hoping to one day sell it.<\/p>\n
I waited too long. The world has moved beyond Audio CDs and is now digital. You can still buy CDs as some stores, but nobody does.<\/p>\n
I have decided to keep the domain for one more year (cost about $13) in the hopes that I can think of something good to do with it.<\/p>\n
I have a few other domains that I am letting slide. GThread.com will expire next month and some more early next year. I am letting go my Baseball “Magic Number” sites because Facebook has made them obsolete. These site don’t pay for themselves, although at one time I made lots of money on them.<\/p>\n
I own KPGraham.com and KeithGraham.com and I think I should drop these, too. I don’t need a vanity site for my resume anymore. I don’t sell myself. <\/p>\n
I have 40 domains I intend to bring that down to 25 by this time next year. In the mean time I am going to put some of them up on an auction site to see how they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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