The Domain Addiction
June 1, 2007 by upyourego
I’ve posted recently about my addiction to social networking sites - an addiction that’s caused me to start a campaign for island wide WiFi in Jersey (I say campaign - I mean talk about it a lot).
I have a lot of addictions - podcasts, blogs, social networks but one I struggle with the most is buying domain names.
At last count I had 33 domain names registered - some are used for blogs, some are used for e-mail and some were once upon a time meant to be my next big project.
OK so a few of the 33 are multiple versions of the same domains - the dot coms, co uks and nets just to make sure I have them all - for the projects I really care about.
For example - I’ve got the org, org uk, com and co uk of Anthem for England - a project I launched a few years ago as part of a campaign for England to have its own national anthem - I got bored but did have a half arsed go at a new design a few months ago.
That list of 33 is whats left after the big domain dump of January 2007 - I dropped at least 15 - some of the names below might not belong to me anymore but I’m pretty sure the majority do.
5tracks.co.uk, 5tracks.eu, anthemforengland.co.uk, anthemforengland.com, anthemforengland.org, anthemforengland.org.uk, broadbandthing.com, communityaware.org.uk, f2vtv.com, free2view.info, freedommedia.co.uk, goodgeekguide.com, grumpygeeks.co.uk, howtobeageek.net, independentincome.co.uk, istockradio.com, jerseybands.co.uk, jerseyflatshare.co.uk, jerseymusic.co.uk, jerseyparents.org.uk, jerseyscene.co.uk, jsynews.com, leftofmiddle.co.uk, maxtheweb.co.uk, mywebradio.co.uk, ourisland.co.uk, outinjersey.co.uk, ryanmorrison.co.uk, sociallyacceptable.net, themagicworld.net, thetg.co.uk, upyourego.com, thetg.net.
I have no idea what the weirder of the domains actually mean or were registered for and to be honest I have no idea what the less weird mean or do either.
Some were registered for my wife, some for other people that changed their mind but most were registered on a random whim or idea.
One day I might actually get around to building My Web Radio or iStock Radio - I’ve launched How To Be a Geek as a Tumblog and still have plans to launch the Good Geek Guide - one day.
What about you - how many domains have you registered?
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I share your addiction to domain names. I think most of them were registered for other people really. I have about 15 names at the moment I think but honestly I don’t know, it’s probably more I dare not count
I know loads of bands and they often ask me to sort out websites for them. I’m a programmer and I used to spend ages writing custom sites for them, doing nice Flash intros and stuff but the last one I did I just up a Wordpress blog and the guys loved it. I wish I’d known about that 5 years ago, it would have saved me a hell of a lot of time. I’m impressed with the customization you can do with Wordpress and I may even redo some of the old sites with it. We’ll see.
My other addiction apart from domains is ridiculously over the top hosting packages. I spend a bit of cash on that as well
I know Wordpress has been a godsend - I used to have to build basic content management systems for everyone I built a website for as none of them could have updated the site themselves using HTML and they ALL wanted to update the site themselves.
As for the hosting - I found a solution to that - it does cost £40 a month but I paid for the reseller account from Fasthosts.
It allows me to host as many different websites with their own e-mail service and ftp access as I like at no extra cost.
I’ll have to checkout Fasthosts then. I have a decent Windows hosting package with M6.Net at the moment but I bought it back when I was an ASP.NET developer and now I’m 100% Linux and open source, even on my desktop
I would like a host who’ll support Django (the Python web framework). I haven’t tried asking M6 though, they might do it if I plead 
I get:
- 200gb disk space (I’ll never use it)
- 1250gb bandwidth (see above)
- Hosting for 17 different sites with stats servers, webmail, 170 FTP accounts etc etc
- 1 MSSQL server, 20 MYSQL databases
- a ridiculous amount of other stuff
All that for £120 a year. Not bad hey. If they’ll add Django support I think I might ask them to marry me
That is a pretty good deal - I get pretty much unlited domains, hosting accounts, ftp accounts, e-mail accounts per domain and bandwidth (within acceptable use) but have to pay for anything else.
If I want an MSSQL Database I have to pay per database - I’ve got 2.