Its been a while since I have written, and I have really been busy. Since my last article, I decided to get out and get some more restructuring done with balancing life and work. Playing games online everyday gets old when your working from home. I will follow up on a future post with what I have been doing.

But for now lets go into what I think everyone should do several times a year. That involves taking the time to log into your Godaddy account or wherever you have purchased domains and make some decisions of whether domains are worth keeping. That can get pretty freakin crazy when you own hundreds of domains. I know there are guys out there that own thousands of domains with content on them. Thankfully not me. Fortunately I can say I have dropped the trash and am down to about 350 domains.

This year I dropped hundreds of domains that I just felt were not valuable anymore. They either lost their PR, or no longer served a purpose. Below are the factors I used to decide if a domain was a keeper or not.

• Does it have PR?
• Does it make me money?
• Does it have a catchy or short name that could be valuable?
• How long have I had it?
• How old is the domain, and what is the subject matter?

If you have been building your business up for the past year and have at least 100 domains I suggest you look through them and decide to either dump them by turning auto renew off, or do something with it and see what you get on the next PR update. It is possible you have a domain that is not attached to a website, and it could have live links pointing in that you just can’t see until you develop it. Whatever you do. Don’t let a domain just sit there with nothing on it. I have had some domains that I bought a year ago that I never developed come up for renewal. What a shame. But hey we live, we learn, and we make things better.

I just thought I would share, and I hope you don’t get caught like I did last month auto renewing crappy domains. It’s like throwing money away.

This is a new page which will have the winners of the Make money online domain contest held every other week. If you are the winner, please contact me and let me know what domain you would like. I will then register it and transfer it to your account. If you want to know how to win click here.

Nov 17th – Denise from Djnuttall enterprises
December 2nd – James from News Panda
December 18th – Monika from Freelance Writing