Flexible Rails - One Year Anniversary of the Domain Name (and I've actually done something for once!)
Posted by Peter Armstrong Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:17:00 GMT
It's been exactly one year since I registered flexiblerails.com with the idea of eventually writing a book. Usually (i.e. every other time) when I register a domain name for a Really Great Idea, a year goes by with my having not gotten very far with the idea and I need to make the decision whether to let the registration expire or renew the domain name.
Basically, the question usually boils down to: "Am I willing to pay $10 to allow myself to believe that this year (or at some point in the future) I'll get off my butt and finish the project?"
Sometimes that answer is yes, often times no. Before this book, the only success I ever had with ideas that led to my registering domain names was to sell two of the domain names: babelchat.com [years ago] and ritio.us [recently]. You can guess what babelchat.com was going to be (automated translation in IM); ritio.us was going to be http://nut.ritio.us. I decided that since someone else had nutr.itio.us and someone else nutrious.com, the actual value of ritio.us wasn't that much though...
(Aside: years ago when I was a poor university student I saw that santaclaus.com was available. No, I didn't register it ($50 was a big decision then). Yes, I am a total idiot.)
Anyway, enough self-absorbed reflection; time to go back to working on the book...
