My previous blog was about the pride I have in being a leading internet techy by actually having a blog but also the fact that I own the domain http://www.viewsfromparadise.com I paid some money a couple of years ago to register my ownership. My justification for the cost was because I enjoy my blogging, and there are hundreds of fans (well a few anyway) that live their lives vicariously through my insights on life.
At the time my thought was that, while I own the site viewsfromparadise.wordpress.com, this could be easily taken over by someone with the core domain name. Plus the fact that I love the title and figure with the millions of sites being registered each year, this is such a great name that someone will pay a fortune one day to get it from me.
Which leads to the issue of Domain Sitters. People that grab domain names for companies and then sit on them waiting for the company to come along and buy them out. Apparently you can lose the domain if it is proven that you only sit on the site and did not intend to use it.
So it could be, that the reason I write blogs, is to defend my ownership. Do you think I would actually enjoy baring my soul to the public?
Apparently I do.
5 responses to “More Detail on Owning a Blog site”
Patty
April 6th, 2014 at 19:56
Of course you enjoy baring your soul … front and centre stage. No one will deny it!
Blaine Ellis
April 7th, 2014 at 09:55
Too true Patty. He even thinks he saved me from a burning car…sick.
Janine
April 7th, 2014 at 17:59
I have heard this burning car story before… Dad is quite a hero! It is interesting the lengths he goes to in order to be center stage!
rbellis11
April 7th, 2014 at 19:25
I still maintain that I did save my little brother. Blaine froze in fear at the wheel of the burning cardboard car, forgetting his role where he was supposed to roll out, and I had to dive in to save him. This would have made a fabulous YouTube episode if only we had a camera and the controversy would have been settled.
Patty
April 7th, 2014 at 20:06
Except for one little fact … that you set the fire in the first place! Bet you got a whooping.