Well, that was an interesting test. About ten days ago, I parked DomainRookie.com as a test. I wanted to see how the parked page would do at Sedo.com and if readers would miss it.

I was pleasantly surprised at the numbers. In the stats for the last seven days at Sedo, I received 4,154 uniques. I don’t think the name was optimized for the first 4-5 days, but now it is with “domain names” as the keyword. It’s received 19 clicks at 49 cent EPC.

I’ve received many emails from people who had to look up my email address on my Whois records to find me. They want the site back for the commentary and the resource page. Thanks for your support!

I’m going to continue with commentary here and, in fact, improve the site over time, as I see it’s desired and it’s getting the hits. I know can put in more effort to monetize it. I’ve really not done much at all to make money from it

However, I’m also going to put it up for sale at a pretty affordable price before I spend the time to beef it up I’ll take the first $5,000 (net to me after expenses) offer.

The site is hosted at my excellent web host, LivingDot.com, in an “add-on” account under my main account. I’m sure they would move the WordPress blog files and database to a new individual LivingDot.com account for free for someone opening up a new account there. It’s $11 a month and I see there is a 50% off coupon code on their home page right now. This company gives (you won’t believe it) five minute or less support response times. (I get no fee for recommending them)

So, if you’d like to run this blog, with all its room for growth, or use the domain for something else, let me know through the contact page on the site.

Note: This was a PR4 blog for a long time. It currently shows zero. It must have been the temporary parking that made it a PR0 for some reason, for the moment. I see I still have my Alexa rank of 174K

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I started what’s become a great topic at namepros.com titled, Type-in Behavior Changing?. In my opinion, it’s a must read. If you are buying names for type-in income, you better read it. Pay particularly close attention to my posts (slobizman) and those of Seabass, a brilliant poster.

I’d summarize some of the postings and conclusions here, but I’ve got to keep my eye on the crazy stock market today, and I am in the middle of several domain sale escrows so I’ll ask that you just read the thread. You won’t miss anything that way anyway. Now, don’t stop reading early. It begins talking about the behavior of browsers, but moves on to more general discussions of the possible changing world of type-ins.

(I’ve also got to watch Hillary Clinton being interviewed on CNBC in 45 minutes, about her fears relating to the stock market. I sure hope to hell they have the guts to ask her about how back in her corrupt Arkansas days she turned $1,000 in Cattle futures into $100,000. Just dumb luck she says. Yeah right. LOL! Political payback. But I digress…)

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