My name is Monica and I’m a domainer from Dublin, Ireland.
I’m a fiction writer who has become interested in domaining as a change from writing and also because I love the sound of some of the domain names. Thinking them up is addictive. It’s almost a kind of Internet poetry.
At almost 61 years of age, I am perhaps getting into this game a little late. It’s actually my second attempt. I bought my first names just on the cusp of the first dotcom bubble crash.
And guess what, I’ve restarted at a time when an even more serious economic crash looks increasingly likely. Am I a domaining Jonah (or Jonesse)? Let’s hope not.
Once I’ve bought names I like, I kind of feel obliged to do something useful with them.
The options are: developing or selling on to someone else who may or may not want to develop them.
I am going to have to learn about these things - developing websites for the domain names or selling them on.
Selling them on, I have discovered, means finding someone who wants to buy them.
There is reselling, or selling to other domainers. Then there is selling to end users, people who may already have a business that could use these names, or are keen to develop one. It is end users who are the target of this project.
