Recently I was approached by a business who wanted my domain name (jarvis.com.au), they noted that I wasn't really using the domain much myself, and all that was at the address was a static placeholder page. What they didn't realize is that the domain is in fact used quite heavily firstly in email accounts (all my family have a jarvis.com.au email acccount) and also as an internet accessable source control and ftp server. So the question was put to me "how much is it worth to you to give that up". Suffice it to say that our respective views differed quite greatly as to how much it is worth and I will be keeping jarvis.com.au, it also occured to me that while I was trying to figure out what the pain points would be in selling the domain that I have owned for more than 10 years that the biggest pain point is that my email address is my default password recovery mechanism, over the years I have signed up to so many online sites that all require passwords most of which I use maybe once or twice a year or even less frequently I have no hope of remembering them, my email address is my saviour for those sites.

One really useful thing that has come out of this exercise is that I have moved hosting companies, while contemplating selling the domain I did some research into hosting companies, and made the switch to Lunarpages, this plan is great, It's a windows server host, so I can finally start using my own domain(s) for testing .net apps that I write instead of just testing on localhost, I really should have done this a long time ago. It also means that I can host my own blogging software and blog, By the way BlogEngine.NET appears to be pretty damn good (so far...) pretty painless to install and get going.