Since I’m an SEOmainer, I tend to pay attention to a niche of domains typically ignored by traditional domainers. Domains which, in most cases, are ugly. Ugly, in that, they typically possess several hyphens, word abbreviations, and registered under the ‘red-headed stepchild’ gtld’s like .info or .ws.
I pay close attention to these domains cause, at the end of the day, traffic is traffic, whether it’s driven to rumcakes.com, or rum-cakes.biz.
I’m - basically - the online version of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming the wretched refuse…
Like Lady Liberty, I’d have my own tablet, and it’d read:
Not like the brazen Almighty Domainers,
With conquering limbs astride from registrar to registrar;
Here in our humble spare bedroom shall stand
A mighty SEOmainer, whose American Express card
Is the imprisoned lightning, and his name Peter Askew.
From his beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; his mild eyes command
The dew-soaked Blue Ridge Mountains.
“”Keep, your 2 letter .com’s, your dictionary terms!”” cries he
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled domains yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming registrar.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
View the original poem here
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Hi Peter,
Great post, I subscribe to your blog, and have done for sometime. It’s a fantastic read
Should I interpret this post as a request for domain offers on my unwanted domains?
If so, email me (I assume you are able to see the email address of commenters?).
Cheers,
Japh