First off, Thank You Michael for my admittance to your forum.
I have been an avid reader of your articles and have learned much. Thank You.
A little about me,
I am from Flint, Michigan born and raised, I am 23 year, 2 million mile veteran over the road truck driver, I haul new cars and test vehicles for several auto manufacturers. I am 44 years old and have two daughters 12 and 15...Hi Girls.
My plan is to retire to some warm climate and enjoy cold hop sodas while lounging in a hammock in the not so distant future.
My first domain registration was in early 2005, I am what I call a "Johnny come kinda lately" domainer and all my domains are "off the shelf" registrations, no aftermarket buying activity for me, as yet.
I maintain any where between 500 and 1000 domains at any one given time. Mostly dot com and dot net generic term domains, no real glitter, but enough type in traffic and search engine indexing to make a decent extra pay check every month. My portfolio consists mainly of domains in and around my work, personal interests and of course high bid rates.
I, as most have, registered some real bad domains, bad in that they made little to no revenue or had any interest from potential buyers. Over time I have culled my portfolio of this non productive stock and now maintain 500 or so domains worthy of renewal each year. I try new and different areas of domains to register some make the cut others don't. My "trick" is to keep it simple and use a common sense approach in domain registration. Buy what you know, understand, enjoy, use, buy etc. I have found, by keeping to this method, I can make an extra paycheck each month off new registrations.
Ninety nine percent of my domains are parked with Fabulous.com I am very pleased with the support, service, cost and software Fabulous provides.
I have a few websites I maintain that I had professionally designed around some ideas of mine that do pretty well and are continually growing and producing some revenue. After being prodded by several friends to learn some basic HTML I finally did, and have developed several domains to compliment those that I had professionally built. Using those as anchor sites my little HTML pages help feed traffic to those anchors. Keeping everything linked together and relevant I see some very good serps for several keywords. Now to keep that fresh, original content flowing....
I am usually kinda quite and in the background, but occasionally I get a passion and feel the need to chirp in my thoughts. I look forward to reading and when the passion hits me contributing to WhizzbangsBlog.
Thanks Again,
Nice to meet you all,
Mark Rogers
'Goggleyed'
