http://www.peterarmstrong.com/ en-us 40 Peter Armstrong comments <p>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.</p> <p>Basically, the question usually boils down to: "Am I willing to pay $10 to allow myself to believe that <em>this</em> year (or at some point in the future) I'll get off my butt and finish the project?"</p> <p>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...</p> <p>(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.)</p> <p>Anyway, enough self-absorbed reflection; time to go back to working on the book...</p> Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:17:00 PST <a href="/articles/2007/01/31/flexible-rails-one-year-anniversary-of-the-domain-name-and-ive-actually-done-something-for-once">Flexible Rails - One Year Anniversary of the Domain Name (and I've actually done something for once!)</a> <a href="/articles/2007/01/31/flexible-rails-one-year-anniversary-of-the-domain-name-and-ive-actually-done-something-for-once">Flexible Rails - One Year Anniversary of the Domain Name (and I've actually done something for once!)</a>