Say Goodbye

I bought a domain name, it was the name of a magazine that briefly featured my work — my horoscopes — back in the heady days when Austin was awash with the first blush of the dot boom.

The original owners of the domain name, same name as the magazine that lasted all of about two or three issues, had a few back links to the original title, so, as an investment property, that domain looked good.

I’ve played with it, toyed with direction, built pointed and added more links, small page, bigger page, have it forward to advertising, and yet, in none of the iterations did it ever generate enough money to cover its own costs.

Handy domain name to have, as I could use it as an experiment. Google was forwarding it, last time I checked. Traffic was negligible to non-existence.

I like it, and I’ve had that name for three or four years. I enjoyed the exercise and artwork, but the sad truth was that, as a strict business proposition, which it was from the very beginning, it has born no fruit.

None. Made — maybe — an aggregate amount of close to its price. Maybe. Best use was a forwarding a social network thing and using it for that. Again, valid experimentation.

It’s a relationship, like I’ve pointed out before, it’s a relationship whose time has come to its logical end.

The Mars (retrograde) Minute — MarsMinute.com

The domain, thankfully, I can rewrite the extant links I’ve built on my sites, and those all point some place else, now.

Mars is Retrograde. Stick a fork in it — see if it’s done.

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