More Domain names!?

Early this morning, through ’til just before lunchtime I had the urge to bag a few more domain names:

http://english-christmas.co.uk

http://xmas-christmas.co.uk

http://yourxmasonline.co.uk

http://houndturd.co.uk

http://dogturdonline.co.uk

http://hot-and-desperate.co.uk

http://thesitewiththelongestpossibledomainnameicouldthinkof.co.uk

and finally………

http://thesitewiththelongestpossibledomainnameicouldthinkofonline.co.uk

Of course I was laughing and pretty pleased with my purchases until the resuming of this week’s bad luck with getting hurt by some of those I consider my very closest online friends from the past 8yrs I couldn’t live without doing a pretty good job of trying to get struck off my list of people to get Christmas Cards & Presents for 🙁

JD’s Domain name purchasing rampage

Alright, so yesterday (Sunday) I had a bit of an urge to purchase a few extra domain names, and ended up with this little lot:

http://yorkshirepage.co.uk
http://waggler-float.co.uk
http://duck-family.co.uk
http://duck-family-shop.co.uk
http://garden-page.co.uk
http://snappersonline.co.uk
http://whitby-north-yorkshire.co.uk
http://scarborough-north-yorkshire.co.uk
http://ruswarp-north-yorkshire.co.uk
http://british-angling.co.uk
http://britishangling.co.uk
http://north-yorkshire-photographs.co.uk
http://north-yorkshire-photogifts.co.uk
http://railway-photographs.co.uk
http://insurance-and-loans.co.uk
http://unbore.me.uk
http://you-bored.co.uk
http://ubore.me.uk
http://screwonline.co.uk
http://screwonline.me.uk
http://my-webgames.co.uk
http://webgamesonline.co.uk
http://mywebgames.co.uk
http://webgamespage.co.uk

I think there were 24 of them in total, but I lost count a few times part way through.

http://screwonline.co.uk – I bought because I thought it was funny. Made my ribs hurt like hell. I was originally looking to see if http://screw.me.uk was available, but some bugger had already registered that ‘un and http://screwonline.co.uk was the funniest alternative (at least at the time).

Some were bought to try nudge some of my existing sites up the search rankings, while the rest were bought to try rake in a few extra quid either by creating yet another website of my own, or by Domain name parking via SEDO.

JD’s now in business

As some of you may know, I’ve now gone into business for myself.
Having been stuck on unemployment benefit since August 2000, and things looking as though I’d stand more chance of seeing Pamela Anderson running naked down the street outside than finding someone to take me on, I figured I may as well finally have a crack at starting my own business.

I was initially considering starting my own computer business, building & tweaking the things…. but that was ruled out when my “project PC” I’m now building this site on had me completely flummoxed as to why the hell it wouldn’t work, and I had to get a relative to finish it off when my previous desktop PC self-destructed from old age last December (2006)… but I can do memory upgrades if anyone wants me to.

I also ruled out selling crap on Ebay full-time due to the fact previous attempts at that have only resulted in the sale of 2 jigsaws, and being stuck with 3 or 4 watches I bought at wholesale off Ebay in the hopes of making a profit on them (anyone wanna buy a watch?).

Eventually I figured that as I was getting really rather good at photography….. especially having bought my first ever digital camera in March 2006, allowing my life-long snap happy tendencies to go totally unleashed, without being restricted by the restrictive number of shots a roll of film can take (and paying a small fortune to have it developped), I may as well have a shot at flogging a few of my pictures…. and maybe do a bit of website design on the side.
Eventually I figured that as I was getting really rather good at photography….. especially having bought my first ever digital camera in March 2006, allowing my life-long snap happy tendencies to go totally unleashed, without being restricted by the restrictive number of shots a roll of film can take (and paying a small fortune to have it developped), I may as well have a shot at flogging a few of my pictures…. and maybe do a bit of website design on the side.

To cut a long story short, it was finally launched as a genuine business on 24th September 2007 under the guidance of the Whitby Business Development Agency, with me having been “conscripted” onto the NEW DEAL 25+ Self-Employment option.

JD’s Photography & Web Design