After letting my domain boxchronicle.com, (which was for a computer history site I originally created in college) expire a while back, I recently decided to register it again and get the site back up and running. It used to generate the most traffic out of all my pages/sites, but I’d run out of a lot of free time to maintain it and had let it go by the wayside.
When I tried to register it again, I discovered someone else had taken the domain name and now posted it as a premium domain for sale at an outrageous price. They basically stole the domain, as it was likely bought due to the high traffic it once got and were either now hoping I’d fork out the money for it back, or idiotically thought someone else would find such a name valuable. It was never the name that drove the traffic, but the actual site content which got nice rankings on the search engines. That’s nothing but good SEO!
I knew that if I got the site back up with a new name, the traffic would come. I decided on using the pluralized version of the original name, which made more sense when I thought about it anyway. So now without further ado, here is the new site boxchronicles.com . This is only one letter way from the original name, and the content itself will bring the traffic back.
Hopefully I can steal the old name back from the organization that took it after it expires in July and simply point that one to the same place…ensuring any old outside links using the original domain name will wind up there. But seriously …who would think such a name would be worth hundreds of dollars?