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.
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