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‘Cause I forgot it’s birthday..

officially started this thing on 3/30/07..

I’d like to share a special birthday song I used to sing with fellow counselors - to campers - while working at Camp Carolina during summers in college. Rather than the typical upbeat birthday song, the Camp Director (Cha Cha Thompson), would lead an intensely funny, morbid version of the track:

[sung in the lowest key possible, monotone, eyes toward ground, almost mumbling the words]

Ha-ppy Birthday

Ha-ppy Birthday

fear and loathing in the air

people dying everywhere

Ha-ppy Birthday.

happy b-day domainer’s gazette. Here’s hoping this brain dump of a blog is helping somebody out there learn this addictive and amazing business.

this seemed to be a nice follow up to my last post..

Introducing The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper). sheer brilliance.

I revisited one of my favorite blog posts today, from Tropical SEO, written by Andy Hagans..

back in ‘06, he wrote a post that still speaks volumes to me, nearly two years later..(hell, I even commented on it back in May of ‘07)

for us domainers, it specifically speaks volumes, due to the fact the we’re all really pack rats, siphoning in domain names with the eventual “vision” of developing them out into some wide swath portal power.

Now, the somewhat unspoken secret in domaining is this: domainers are lazy. Sure we collect all these names, but do we develop them to their full potential? No. Shoot, I’m even an exception, cause I develop all my names, but since I consistently buy more and more, I can only spend a limited amount of time on each property, possibly creating 25-50 pages of content. After that, I gotta bolt cause more names are on the block - names I need to buy.

And if you look at Andy’s post, you’ll see my comment.. it definitely helped me re-focus my priorities at that moment in time, but a month or two later, I became re-addicted to buying names, and throwing more into my portfolio.

Today was another re-focus moment. I’ve got to stop buying domain names. Or slow down at least. I’ve got a portfolio of solid names. Both from a dictionary level, and from an SEO level with 10 years of age on them, thousands of backlinks, and uber-commercial possibilities.

I can’t pick 20, cause I’m a one man operation. I realistically can only pick 5, max, maybe. Five I devote myself to. And possibly one I hang my hat on. One I live and breathe. One I fight for. “The Big One“, so to speak.

Once I get One generating some consistent cash flow, then I hire some folks. Then I can make my other properties their “One”.

thanks for letting me brain dump this out..

The domains I target and acquire, I tend to develop and keep. As I collect more and more names, though, a few fall by the wayside.

One of those wayside name became RomarBeach.com.

Romar Beach is a stretch of sand right down the road from Gulf Shores Alabama..

Take a peek of it on MapQuest here

So I bought this one a while back, and parked it over at Sedo waiting for a moment to develop it..

that moment never seemed to come..

the name was small’ish though, a touch too small to submit to the conferences, or even spend time trying to sell to a fellow domainer friend..

then I realized I had never auctioned a name off at Sedo yet… So I thought, I might as well pimp this blog out, see if there are any takers..

and if the name ain’t enough, based on Sedo stats, it receives an average of 176 pageViews per month (over the past 12 months.)

so, who’s interested? $100 bucks will send this thing to auction..

and if it ends up selling for more than $259, I’ll use the proceeds to officially join the ICA..

UPDATE: you, my fine readers, are too kind.. RomarBeach.com is now on auction at Sedo..

bid away!

for some reason, I kept thinking of Oliver Twist for this CTOPD..

“More day old bread please?”

“Absolutely, here you go…”

“But that’s a piece of cake!??!”

“No, that’s day old bread…”

Don’t know what CTOPD is? Read here..

Directions to get to my friends house in Oxford MS:

Head down Old Sardis Road

Take a right on College Hill..

then, WATCH OUT FOR THE PLANES TAKING OFF

and go straight for 2 miles, his complex is on the left..