greywaterconsultants.com is my first domain deliberately bought to be a directory/ad page. I’m not sure how I feel about these otherwise pointless squatting exercises - my unease means that I should probably find something better to do with the domain. It could be quite a useful resource for people who want to re-use greywater (runoff from the washing machine and shower) - this is becoming a popular thing here in Australia. Stay tuned - I’ll provide an update when I come to a decision.
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I comment a lot on Social Computing at Facibus Reviews and HumaneIA. I bought the socialcult.com domain name with the idea that I could comment on the buzz and fuss around Social Computing - to some people it seems to be more of a cult or religion than an enabling technology and a set of supporting processes.
I bought Blog Dot Gov and Faux Cuisine on 01 July 2007 to replace http://facibus.com/blogdotgov and http://facibus.com/fauxcuisine respectively. As subdirectories of facibus.com they were essentially limited to whatever revenue I could get through advertising for them - now they are worth more alive (as ongoing prospects) and dead (as domain names alone).
Today’s purchases: 17 July 2007, I purchsed abookthing.com and on-blogging.com.
A Book Thing (as in, it’s a book thing) could be a “watching the death of books” blog or a book review blog (or both?).
On Blogging will probably be the successor to the popular but unsaleable Facibus On Blogging. What I’ll probably do is restore a WordPress backup to the new site and then mirror posts between them before turning Facibus On Blogging off. The other facibus.com blogs (like Faux Cuisine and BlogDotGov) are being transitioned to their own domains (except for OnWii - this can always be moved as the start of the Nintendo Wii section of tech review blog Slikkit.com).
That then leaves me facibus.com for, well, I don’t know. What can be done with a domain that is Latin for “we make”? I’ll think of something 
“Bugerup” or “bagerap” is Tok Pisin for “broken” - it derives from the Australian English slang “buggered up”.
I bought bugerup.com on 05 July 2007 with a view to running a political commentary/satire blog like Crikey (if I ever leave consulting). I haven’t put any pages on it yet - this raises the question of whether it is worth putting a parking/ad page up on domains that don’t yet have a purpose.
I bought CanberraBlog.net, CanberraBlog.org, and CanberraBlog.info on 28 June 2007. I really didn’t have much in mind when I bought them - I live in Canberra and was after CanberraBlog.com to run some kind of local event thing - I was surprised that the others were available so I grabbed them.
CanberraBlog.net is now The Canberra Blog, where I (aspire to) write about the city I live and work in.
CanberraBlog.org is the Canberra Blog Community - I intend to review every blog held or contributed to by Canberra and region bloggers. Better yet, people could review one another’s blogs on it.
And canberrablog.info? Not sure. Links for the other two perhaps?
I bought BA Rocks on 14 June 2007 and set up a WordPress blog for my friend Maria. She’s a Super Business Analyst and needed a place to do her thing.
I bought WorkBlogLife.com on 23 May 2007. The idea at the time was to explore the nature of the work/life balance with the third wheel of blogging thrown in.
Ironically (or not, as I think about it), work and life got in the way and I’ve had less time to blog about the blogging part of the equation
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.