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October 27th, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
If you are a regular reader of Frank Schilling’s personal blog, you will want to re-subscribe to his blog. He is off typepad and on his own domain like all domainers should be. 
Head over to SevenMile.com and click subscribe. His old RSS feed is dead, so be sure to re-subscribe. If you are not a regular reader, now is a great time to start.
Typepad is good for beginners, but if you want your own blog make sure to do it under your own domain. Traffic is hard to build up for a blog, it takes months and months of hard work and a lot of posts. However Calvin Ayre of Bodog proved you can switch domains mid stream and the visitors will find the other front door if they are really loyal. (It also helps if you email them several times and they are addicted to your product. )
While I am announcing Frank’s new permanent URL. I think I will mention some other domainers that are fun to read. If the DomainTools Blog is not covering a subject, it is because one of these great guys already beat me to it. Subscribe to all of them and read them along with me. We are like one big newspaper.
- Richard Ball of Apogee.
- Sahar Sarid of Conceptualist.
- Ari Goldberger and Larry Fischer of DirectNavigation.com.
- Frank Michlick, Adam Strong, and Crew of Domain Name News.
- Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire.
- Peter Askew of Domainers Gazette.
- Roland Buck of DomainNews.com.
- Milton Mueller of Internet Governance.
- Dominik Mueller of Dmueller.com.
- Mark Fulton of DotSauce.com.
- Elliot J. Silver of ElliotsBlog.com.
- Joe Davison of NameStrategy.com.
I recommend full feeds, not partial feeds. It is much easier for someone to read your blog this way (your audience will also grow faster and link to you more). There simply is not a HUGE blog out there that has partial feeds so please open up your feeds. Go full feed. Say “No” to partial. I know it is tempting because you see more page views in your log files and that makes you happy. But frankly page views are an old way of measuring success for a reading based media source. A blog’s success should be measured by a third party RSS counters like feedburner. If you want to make money with your blog, put the ads inside the feed or get creative. Don’t quote page views to potential sponsors, quote them readership base. People can read your posts via email delivery or via an RSS Reader like (Google Reader). End of rant.
One last thing, if I did not mention your blog, feel free to post it in the comments below, I think there are 50+ domain blogs out there and I try to read them all. I may not get any work done, but I know what is going on. It seems like last year there were none. We have come a long way in this industry, perhaps in 2009 we will all have vlogs.
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October 27th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Feel free to check out my blog as well:
http://www.NameStrategy.com
Joe Davison
October 27th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Who is Frank Schilling? Whois says the domain is owned by Name Administration Inc. (a company I am not too fond of). So is he the CEO of this company or something similar?
UPDATE BY JAY: Good question. Yes, he is the CEO of Name Administration. You may not be fond of him but I suspect it is because he has a domain name you want.
Am I right?
October 27th, 2007 at 9:49 am
The Amataeur Domainer blog is pretty funny and interesting.
http://www.amateurdomainer.com
October 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Help! I followed the link to SevenMile.com and clicked subscribe, typed in my e-mail address, etc., replied to the e-mail, and ended up with a subscription to DomainTools blog. ???
UPDATE BY JAY: Looks like that issue just got fixed. Try again.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Just like to say. http://www.informtainment.com is my blog, just sharing. We are Caribbean based.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Jay,
Indeed, Name Administration Inc. owns at least one domain name I desire. I would love to tell you about it via email but I cannot seem to find your email address anywhere on this page, and I am not sure if you use your first name at your last name dot com for matters of that sort.
But that is not the only reason I do not like Name Administration. In general I do not like domain parking. I end up buying as many as six different domain extensions for a website just to protect the name from being used in the future by domain parkers.
Some people say that parked pages help users find what they need, and in some cases they may be right. For example, one topic I am interested in, when typed in Google there are no Adwords displayed; it is an extremely obscure, which is why I have an informational website to teach people all about it. My website, which is the .info variation and the only one available when I registered it, is number 13 (on Google) out of 1.4 million for the query.
I suppose the .com doesn’t matter too much, as I would not expect any type-in traffic, but it makes me sad to see such a good name about a topic I care so passionately about go to waste. Again, Jay, I will disclose the names and such to you via email if you wish to post it, or you can email me with the address I signed up for Domaintools with.
Adíos.
UPDATE BY JAY: Sure, I will email you privately. But back to the friendly debate. Someone that owns an Ocean Front lot may not build on it for years after they bought it. They are entitled to own the land just as much as the next guy. Even if that land is extremely desirable. Hopefully the future of domain parking is more like Wikipedia. Where anyone can contribute value to the page. It would be nice to have landing pages be the most efficient they can be and the owner certainly has an interest in people returning.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Entirely agree with the full feeds. My small group of tech buddies and I all viciously boycott organizations or individuals which use partial feeds. Long time reader, first time poster
October 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Thank you for mentioning DotSauce Jay
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Thanks, Jay. I tried the link to subscribe to SevenMile.com again and this time it worked. Bonus: I’m subsricbed to the DomainTools blog feed as well!
One of the other blogs I’ve discovered recently is Jennifer Semple Siegel at msdomainer.blogspot.com. Interesting observations and advice for newbies like me.
=TK=
October 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Hi Jay:
Thanks for your insightful & well-informed blog! By the way, here’s a couple of domainer blogs from down under-:
* Michael Gilmour’s WhizzBangsBlog.com
* OzDomainer.com
And from the U.S.:
Owen Frager’s FragerFactor.com
InsideDomaining.com (I need to do what you just did for Frank as I am on a re-direct as he was but need to mask it so the browser reads my domain instead of the Blogger url… I sense it may be best switching to Word Press; however, are there any SEO advantages of staying w/ Blogger since they are owned by the un-stoppable Google?)
Also, from Panama:
DomainerPro.com
All the best,
Steve Smith
InsideDomaining.com
UPDATE BY JAY: I think making the switch is a good thing. There is absolutely no benefit from being on Blogger if you don’t own the domain where the content is hosted. I would have included WhizzBangsBlog.com on the list but he doesn’t have full feeds enabled yet.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Hi Folks!
My blog http://www.domaining.org.uk has lots of information on buying, selling and making money from domain names.
Ray
October 29th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Hi Jay,
Wanted to throw my blog, http://www.andysweet.com out there as well. I don’t write exclusively about domains, but it sure has been taking over the spotlight lately!
-Andy
October 29th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Maybe my newbie blog isn’t so interesting to experienced domainers, but I’m throwing in my two-cents for other newbies.
http://www.MsDomainer.com
Someone just told me how to use my domain name for my blog, and I’ll be doing that soon. (I want to do a test blog first.) Right now, it’s just a redirect.
Best,
Ms Domainer
October 29th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Jay,
I would like to add my domain to the mix.
http://namebait.com
Thanks for allowing us this opportunity.
Jason
October 31st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
thanks for the shout-out Jay..
also, for any bloggers still on typepad or blogger, the hosting company, Dreamhost, offers a pretty cool ‘one-click’ installation of Wordpress for any non-techies out there.. it’s what I used to initially set up Domainer’s Gazette, and it worked like a charm.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Speaking about typepads. I’ve always thought that typepads were for kids and that real men would use their own domains. So, congratulations!
Well, as long as you are all sharing your domain blogs, I will follow the suite. Please check http://www.3appraisal.com/domain-blog/ it contains some news and views on domain names and ccTLD. Also feel free to comment.