Month March 2009

WebHostingShow.com on Domain Pigeon

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omain Pigeon got some unique publicity today with a mention in the WebHostingShow, an audio show about various IT topics.

Below are my transcribed notes from about five minutes into it:

Are you searching for an available domain name, domain name provider, and more of a search tool I would say, Domain Pigeon.com will list all available domain names that they have listed so far, which you can turn around and use on your own website, if you purchase it through them.

The service is really unique and different though. Now once you visit their website you’ll be able to put your mouse over one of the domain names they have listed for additional information. The color of each domain name listed–there are hundreds of domain names to choose from– is colored coded based on availability and popularity.

Over the 12,000 domain names they have listed to pick from, with 1,000 more added each and every day and should be enough to browse through and see which ones are popular and which ones aren’t popular and which ones you may want to pick up.

Now if you sign up for a Domain Pigeon account you can effortless keep track of all the domain names you are interested in.

For anybody that likes to collect interesting domain names that you may want to use at a future date and time, Domain Pigeon.com is one resource worth checking out.

Awesome. Thank you sir.

Hi March

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I spent a lot of time last month improving Domain Pigeon. That’ll continue this month, but I’m also going to shoot for a better balance than I did last month. By the end of the month (last week) I so focused on the site’s minor aesthetic details that I was losing sight of what I am really trying to get out of the experience: startup prep.

With that in mind, I’m going to try to do things a bit differently this month. For one, I plan to read a lot more. I’m going to try to make it through at least the following three books:

The last two are an attempt to improve my communication skills, which could use some work.

I have a few things planned for Domain Pigeon, but the big thing I want to focus on is marketing the site. That’ll include getting more involved in domain name forums, courting bloggers, and maybe, just maybe, a YouTube video or two. That’s a whole new territory for me and I’m not sure how to go about it.  It will definitely be a good experience.

Two big blog items on the todo list:

  • Lessons Learned so far from Domain Pigeon
  • An article about an online Tetris bot I made in high school

Chances are not everything will go according to this plan, but hey, its a direction.

On Spirit

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From The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking by Dale Carnegie:

When Julius Caesar sailed over the channel from Gaul and landed with his legions in what is now England, what did he do to insure the success of his army?  A very clever thing: he halted his soldiers on the chalk cliffs of Dover; and, looking down over the waves two hundred feet below, they saw red tongues of fire consume every ship in which they had crossed.  In the enemy’s country, with the last link with the Continent gone, the last means of retreat burned, there was but one thing left for them to do: to advance, to conquer. That is precisely what they did.

On Money

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From a speech by Francisco in Atlas Shrugged via HackerNews:

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss–the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery–that you must offer them values, not wounds–that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade–with reason, not force, as their final arbiter–it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability–and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money.

Personally, I liked Hank Rearden the best :). I really which I had time to reread the book. The audiobook appears to be 52 hours long… maybe not a bad idea.