Are you keeping fewer domains for side projects now?

[NiceNIC_COM]

Verisign raised .COM wholesale prices on November 1.

If you manage several websites, you probably have a few domains sitting around for old ideas, test sites, or projects that never really took off.

I'm curious whether rising renewal costs have changed how you manage those domains. Do you still renew them separately, or are you more likely to build smaller projects under an existing domain?

What makes a separate .COM worth keeping for you?

 

[pursuit media]

It's best to keep them lying about for eventualities. There is always something to test and they come in handy always.

 

[NiceNIC_COM]

It's best to keep them lying about for eventualities. There is always something to test and they come in handy always.

Fair point, a spare domain is handy for testing without touching a live site. I'd keep a couple for that and let the rest of the old-idea names drop.

 

[bigcake]

I only renew a domain if it has real traffic, backlinks or a project I will actually finish. For dead ideas I would rather park them as a subfolder on a domain I already pay for than keep paying renewals on each. Put the keepers on a calendar reminder so they never lapse by accident, and let the empty ones go after a year.