When I first started blogging properly it was on borrowed server space - Facibus Reviews started out on skonkwerks.net. I had in mind to run a general review blog - life, design and everything - and maybe one day get some paid reviews. I didn’t plan at all, and really didn’t know what I do now.
So I purchased facibus.com and facibusreviews.com on 28 April 2007. The idea was that I could set up various blogs in subdirectories of facibus.com and different review blogs on facibusreviews.com - so “Facibus Reviews Books” would be something like http://facibusreviews.com/books/. Big mistake 
Slowly but surely I’m converting the facibus.com/blogname blogs (like http://facibus.com/fauxcuisine) to blogname.com blogs (e.g. http://fauxcuisine.com) - apart from making them easier to find, I’ve got more valuable domain names. The downside is that my most popular blog (Facibus On Blogging) has an unsaleable URL (http://facibus.com/onblogging). And I could not afford the onblogging.com domain name - well, not yet anyhow
More on these domain names later.
Published at 27 April, 2007
in About.
Hello. My name is Andrew and I am a blog collector.
God help me
Some people think about good ideas and write them down. Myself, since I switched onto the possibilities of blogging a couple of months back, I’ve been buying domain names and starting blogs as a niche presents itself to my imagination.
There is a method to the madness - I’ve noticed that domain names are worth more when something of value has been added to them. I’m not a full-on domainer - I’ve bought a couple of dozen domain names, not hundreds of them - I’m developing a concept called active domaining (and more about that later) - basically, it’s about value-adding and experimenting within various niches to see which are the best, and then I plan to sell off the rest, just keeping the couple of blogs that might be worth the most. This flies in the face of conventional blogger wisdom - that of having one or two blogs and working them hard. At the least, I’ll end up with a bunch of domain names that are worth more than their purchase price - and if things work out, they might work out very well.
To keep things vaguely linear, I plan on timestamping posts on individual domain purchases/blog setups at the time that I put the decision into action rather than the date of the post itself, at least until I’ve caught up with the backlog. I mean no dishonesty by this - which is why I’m putting it up front here in the first post - written on 16 July, but retimestamped to 27 April 2007, just before the madness began… and as the experiment in active domaining continues, I’ll write about my successes and failures here, and on BlogFuze.com.