July 12th,2006

Domain renewals

By Jeremy Wright

While most people probably don’t look with excitement on domain renewals… Well, Cellphone9 and the Windows Vista blog both got sent notices this week that their domains needed renewing.

Which really reminded the founders here at b5 that, yep, it’s been a year since this puppy actually started becoming a reality. Cellphone9 was actually our first b5 blog. Which was incredibly exciting. And looking back on it, it’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in just a year.

Sure we’ve had our share of bumps, changes, growing pains and lessons, but we’ve also had more than our fair share of laughs, successes and unique ideas.

Sure, a cellphone blog wasn’t unique but that’s not the point. The domain renewal notices marked the start of our 1 year anniversary, as it was one year ago today that we got up the nerve to register our first domain for our first brand new blog.

Course the blog didn’t launch until August 23rd, and b5 didn’t launch until a month later… So yeah, consider this the beginning of a long first anniversary ;-)

The Conversation

jayvee on July 12th, 2006 at 22:01

i heart you guys :)

Dan on July 13th, 2006 at 05:57

You mean, you only register your domains one year at a time? Add a couple years for SEO benefits. Google’s watching your domains!

JT on July 30th, 2006 at 20:42

Congratulations!

I am intrested in the above comment.

Does the length of renewal actually effect how Google ranks you?

JT on July 30th, 2006 at 20:45

I searched for it, and it looks like it does. Thanks.

Domain Rep on August 9th, 2006 at 18:44

Renew them for as long as you can, this is currently for up to 10 years.

Besides the obvious Google long term benefits, you don’t want to lose any domain for non renewal.

Why take a chance on one of your most valuable assets?

RJS on August 18th, 2006 at 16:07

Well besides the fact that upfront costs are higher, not all blogs are relevant for ever. For instance the celeb blogs.

Who knew that b5media would be as big as it is today? It could just as easily have failed and the founders would have been out several hundred quid/dollars/whatever than was necessary.

It was probably a move to simply hedge their bets and keep startup costs down.

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