Blog Rolling

It has been over two years since I updated the blog roll here on Casual Domainer.

I’m planning on making regular posts partly because I see so many of the things I predicted happening and I also note that over time, we see the most visionary domain blogs slow down or become very part time. There’s no claim to know it all, or be a better blogger or community member but I do want to add my two cents from time to time.

I don’t appear on too many blog rolls because of my lack of consistent blogging over the years but I’ve always been more about quality than quantity and I am open to being friendly on Facebook with everyone and there are hundreds of you domain folk I am friends with there who probably never visited CasualDomainer. So whether I attain someone else’s ideal of quality is another matter but it’s the longer term goal and fun for me here along the way.

So, some notes about this blog if you’ve found it lately and thought “what is this?”. It’s not the most popular blog of course and I don’t claim to be popular but the stats are nonetheless interesting to me as much as they might be to other bloggers.

So far this month CasualDomainer.com has over 4780 RSS feed pulls and has 420 page requests per day. I am harsh on stats and shave it down to something more like: 650 unique human visitors arrived through the front door, January 2012. I don’t count robots and spurious links in, just the count of hits on the / – there are some 20,000 other data-points that I ignore or consider crawls etc).

I want to point people to an earlier post which has had the most readers over a 3 year period: How do you value domains? That post could have been made yesterday. Considering that it was comparing the year 2007 to the year 2009 I’m happy to pick up again for the year 2012 with some more posts and seeing if things are changing any time soon.

Here’s one line illustrating what has not changed:

[...] the idea is to hold better and better names and by selling lesser ones, you may afford to enter into bigger buys and sales which will make all that academic also.

You can click the logo at the bottom, and see that more than 10,000 people have read that article which I syndicated at DomainInformer and then multiply that a number of multiples to know how many have also read it right here on CasualDomainer.com

If you think my general outlook is wrong, or outdated help bring me back to the present, or future in the comments.

There have been a great many good blogs and blog posts about too many issues to mention in one sitting since I last blogged about domains. So, I intend to update all my links on the blog-roll soon. If you want your blog on the list, please let me know.

About the domain blogs over the last few years, might I just say, I am always very impressed by Michael Berkins’ “theDomains.com” over time for its constant high quality exposition of things that matter to the whole fabric of the domain space. TheDomains.com has been on the blogroll here for years.

My favorite new blog: Wow factor is warranted for DomainSherpa.com IMO the best surprise in blogs in recent times. I was wary when he began it, of the claims to being “the authority” etc like others I note, however, with the growing list of interviews there, that claim is baking itself on the banner. I also like the break from the traditional post format – with video and helpful transcriptions. Well done Michael Cyger.

Next up I’m going to be making some more posts taking a look at what’s changed over recent years, in hindsight.

Cheers for now.