I’m a bit of a domain-hoarder, I’m not on the Sally Whittle end of the scale for domain hoarding, but I do like a good domain. Call me perverse but I love nothing more than the thrill of checking if a domain that (in my simple mind) seems uber cool is free and then pouncing on it like a a lion who’s found a fluffy bunny in his den.

Some domains I have purchased I think are cool:

LoveAllBlogs.com , Blog4Charity.com, TheCraftWall.com , BakeYummy.com, i-tots.com, MumReviews.com, MyFirstPhotoBlog.com, CanadianBloggersNetwork.com, TouchMyFunny.com, KidsCreate.it, ThisIswhereYouCanFind.me

Some are not:

FussyFingers.com – my thinking was for a fussy kids eating or craft site my hopes were quashed when people told me that it sounds like a porn site url.

Youwonthaveanypudding.com – When you read it as You Won’t Have Any Pudding it makes sense but as a url it’s a bit faffy. I still like it though, it oozes grumpiness.

Musodadisabanana.com - An on-line ode to my blogging buddy and good friend Musodad, it was bought out of sheer sarcasm.

This morning I went mad, literally crazy in the coconut over a url and an idea for a site. It was a daft idea – I know – but fun I thought. It’s times like that, in the throes of excitement that I message friends – namely the long suffering Emily from A Mummy Too, Helen from ActuallyMummy and Jenny from Cheetahs in my Shoes. The message almost always begins with…

“I have had an idea… now open your mind…”

And there usually follows all manner of fevered excitement from me, more often than not followed by the sensible, clear headed thinking of SANE people.

This morning I wrote this – these actual words in a message on Facebook: Read more