I was doing some work on my hosting account today. Cleaning out things I no longer need. I was deleting unused databases and database users, letting old domain names I’m not using expire, deleting old installations of WordPress. It took me a lot of time.
I’ve decided to name this process tending the graves of abandoned ideas 🙂
If you have the entrepreneurial spark running through you, this is what happens. You have the amazing idea de-jour and immediately you start ferreting about for the perfect domain name.
You buy the domain name and get to building a website.
Website built you send traffic to your amazing new idea.
You sit back and wait for the millions to start flowing in, and then, nothing happens and another idea dies a death.
You idea does no resonate with the audience and another idea dies and is buried in a paupers grave.
It’s emotional tending the graves of abandoned ideas, all that lost time, all the money you spent on plugins, domain names.
There is a certain amount of mourning the domain name too. The URL will stay on your account for at least a year until it expires and gentle leaves you for good.
Sometime I try to resurrect the dead and bring a project back online, ooh! That domain name will work for wacky idea xxx I’m currently having, lets renew for another year before I let the idea die AGAIN!
How I’m Protecting Myself From This “Grief” Going Forward? I’m testing all my ideas on subdomains before I rush out and buy yet another domain name 🙂
Wrap Up – Tending the Graves of abandoned ideas
Is it just me or have you been guilty of rushing into a domain name purchase for a shiny new idea?
Have you had to spend you precious time tending the graves of your once great idea?
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