Published at 18 August, 2007
in For Sale.
I’ve announced that the After Big Brother domain is for sale over at Active Domaining as follows:
Everyone has a view on the Big Brother reality TV show - love it or hate it. This blog is about what happens next - do the contestants get back to their lives or do they become soap opera stars and pinups?
After Big Brother is a concept blog idea - what I had in mind for it was:
- tracking available public news sources about former Big Brother contestants from around the world,
- using this and a set of tagged posts as the basis for a set of country/gender/background specific categories, so that people could find their favourite (or otherwise) former contestants based on what they knew about them, then
- using available interest to start a forum for the Big Brother fan community.
Monetization was planned to be through straight advertising.
I’m not going to ask a lot for this one - it’s just a domain name and a concept at this stage. That said, if I get enthused and put some work into it so that it starts attracting some real traffic, the price will naturally go up 
If you are interested, contact me.
Published at 13 August, 2007
in For Sale.
I parked GreyWaterConsultants.com with NameDrive while I was deciding what to do with it. It would make a great ad/referral site if set up properly - some ideas I had were:
- a community site (running something like Drupal) where people discuss water re-use options and are offered advice by competing greywater consultants, who they can then rank according to the usefulness of the advice. The consultants would get the chance to strut their stuff (and advertise for free) and their readers would benefit from competitive advice.
- a referral blog where advertorials were added by one or more greywater consultant firms.
- an advertising site where a lot of AdSense/TextLinkAds match on “greywater” could be shown.
I don’t have time to develop it, perhaps you do
Published at 10 August, 2007
in Progress.
The time is fast approaching when I am going to divest myself of some of my blogs - not the ones that have failed commercially (because I am not really making money blogging, yet) but those that I can’t see myself posting to on anything approaching a regular basis. That and I need to make the best use of the ones that remain.
I need to complete the planning, but probable implications are:
- the facibus.com/* blogs (like this one) will be transitioned to their *.com equivalents. I hinted on how this might start in The Blog Collector - BlogDotGov will move from http://facibus.com/blogdotgov to http:/blogdotgov.com and Faux Cuisine will move from http://facibus.com/fauxcuisine to http://fauxcuisine.com. This blog (Facibus On Blogging) will probably transition to http://on-blogging.com
- Some of the marginal blogs (like A Book Thing and Slikkit) will probably just get turned into parked domains - that said, a domain/blog combination with one or two posts on it is probably still worth more as a parked domain than those on parking servers like Named.com or NameDrive.com.
- Facibus Reviews will probably move from http://facibusreviews.com/blog to just plain http://facibusreviews.com
- I’ll probably sell off some of the “metablog” domain names (such as Active Domaining) to see how they go - I don’t really need the money, so I’ll probably donate it to the Smith Family’s Winter Appeal.
- I’ll record the domain-specific results in The Blog Collector - my repository of active domaining experiment notes.
- Finally, I’ll need to figure out what to do with the facibus.com domain - at a bare minimum, I’ll keep it to redirect the facibus.com/* links to http://on-blogging.com and use it for email.
The end goal is to have a set of usable helpful blogs that are worth reading and to get rid of the rest at more than the setup cost.
Anyone have any advice based on the above? I’d be glad to hear any suggestions.
Note: the above was originally published on Facibus On Blogging.