Hi,
My name is Evie and I am a Domainer.
I begin today’s blog not so much as a blog about what I do, so much as a blog about an obsession. Most domainers buy and then sell the domain names they register. I have fallen into a different category I think. I see a domain and the possibilities of the name are like fireworks in my imagination … oh the wonderful things I can do with them are endless (for an adult with (self-diagnosed) ADD this is a playground of uncharted territory … yippeeee … sorry, couldn’t help myself 
) so even when I have thought about selling them, I pull back before it can happen.
Several years ago I bought the domain name Domainager and the idea of Domainager evolving from “a mere website” into something more has been bumping around in my brain … You see Domainager is to become a noun (person, place or thing)
What exactly is a Domainager? A Domainager is a person who buys and manages domain names for development (stick with me I’m in the flow 
) Being a Domainager means the number of domain names must remain manageable (which is really hard when there ARE so many great domain names … domainers may not what you to know that since they want to sell you the domains they hold, but … neither here nor there for this article.)
Being a Domainager means that just because someone offers a substantial amount of money for a piece of virtual real estate you own (like Wal-mart buying land on the banks of the Anclote does not mean that is the proper use of the land … and in the land of Domaining – THAT is what a domain name is … Land (for instance the name of the page you “land” on being called a Landing Page) so to those who may call me a Cybersquatter 
I hope I do not own one of the domain names you would like to make your own.
So anyway what was the catalyst for today’s article? Transferring of a domain name from one registrar to another (A registrar in the domaining world is an entity authorized to register domain names with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ) This past year for my husband’s birthday I got him a new cookbook – but it’s not like any other cookbook he’s ever gotten before. This cookbook is one you may use as well FoodRecipesBlog.com but the registrar it was registered at (domains when anything changes are *stuck* for a minimum of 60 days) is not the registrar I normally use … so … I kinda forgot about it until this past week.
October 4th I began the transfer process to move the domain from NamesCheap to my registrar. There are bells we must ding, hoops to jump through, and clicks to verify all to ensure the domain is being transferred from and to the proper places … this morning I finally received the “do you really want to do this” e-mail …
YAY!!! I am back to having only three registrar’s … My goal is to be down to one MAIN registrar by spring of 2010. Being a Domainager with several registrars gets very confusing and I need all the focus power I can get.
Being on the 100 Day Challenge is providing an awesome breakthrough for me.
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