Just a quick note to all of those that have been waiting patiently for either the Chef Patrick or WhyPark wallpaper, they are ready!

Get your wallpaper now! (Adults Only)

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Yesterday’s domain news video seems to have caused a little bit of a nipplegate scandal in the industry. At least that is what Jamie over at DotWeekly would have you believe with his blog post.

I apologize for anyone that tried to view the video earlier today. The video was taken down by YouTube and has since been hosted elsewhere and reposted to my original blog post.

Unfortunately I don’t think yesterday’s video came through as tasteful as it should have. Two mistakes were made, which I will admit to. First, the model was wearing what’s called nip tape at first, it covers the nipples. The nip tape was the wrong size and not working properly. I had four women in the room, including my wife, and asked their input. Every single one of them, including the model, voted she should go natural. The second mistake was the camera view, it was too close. When the camera was setup the model’s torso was in the picture, showing off more of an artistic body paint image and the rest of her clothes. When I replayed the video on my computer it was cut off. By the time I watched the video and realized I would have had to do it again, the model had changed and the photographer took down all of her equipment. As you can see in the pictures below it’s a lot classier with full image.

Would I do it again? Without a doubt, yes I would. What I’ve done is no different than the 2008 and 2009 Sports Illustrated body painted swimsuit edition, which are available at every grocery store in America.

I think all the chatter of a possible controversy with this video has taken away from the purpose of it, which was a WhyPark contest. Congrats to the winner which gets either a Kindle or Netbook, their choice. To find out the winner, watch the weekly news video.

Here are just a few of the pictures taken yesterday. Adults only! I am also working on some computer wallpaper/backgrounds that will be available on Monday.
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A little over a week ago I mentioned that I would be acquiring some GEO domain names to develop. On Friday’s Bido live video chat I announced two. For those of you that did not catch the chat or replay, the two GEO domain names are Indianapolis.in and TampaBay.tv.

I don’t think words can explain my excitement to get going on these projects. Let me share some statistics on the areas and maybe you will understand.

Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, is also the United States 14th largest city with a population of just under 800,000 residents. Indianapolis is home to the NBA Pacers, NFL Colts and Indy 500 mile race.

Tampa Bay is the United States 19th largest metropolitan area with a population of 2,773,768 residents which I know for a fact is low. Depending on who you ask, Tampa Bay can be made up of between 4 to 8 counties. Living in Tampa Bay myself for 15 years, I know that we consider it 8 counties. With the added counties the population is made up of well over 4,000,000 residents. Tampa Bay is home to the NFL Buccaneers, MBA Rays and NHL Lightening. Beyond sports, Tampa Bay has Busch Gardens amusement park and several beautiful beaches making this area a hot spot for tourists.

What are my development plans?

Indianapolis.in will be a single city platform similar to what Elliot Silver has done with Burbank.com. TampaBay.tv will be a little bit more involved and have a multi-city/county platform similar to Bruce Marler’s Missouri.me.

My goal is to have both sites up and running within the next 45 days. I will keep everyone updated as progress is made.

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Last week I wrote about buying my first .us domain name. After losing a Bido auction for SuicideHelp.org which sold for $207 I hand registered the .us version. As promised I would create a mini-site to help those that may be suicidal.

My future plans are to do some SEO work and continue adding articles maybe once or twice per month. I may also solicit people to submit their real world suicide stories via text or video. At this point I have no plans of monetizing the site in any way.

So what do you think? I know the header is a shocker. That’s the goal, want to get the point across.

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UPDATE – I am open to any offers over mid $xxx.

This is my first blog entry attempting to sell a domain name.

Towards the very end of December I had a mini-site created for SuedeCouches.com which is included with the sale. The mini-site was setup only with Google Adsense. To date I have made $56.80 with June being the greatest month bringing in $23.67. I also want to add the site receives on average 26 visits per day.

Google search term “Suede Couches” results are 4,810 hits with SuedeCouches.com holding the #1 spot.

Here is a list of furniture related sales:

LeatherSofa.com $17,100
LeatherCouch.com $12,500
SofaSets.com $2,300
Sofa.com $200,000
OutdoorChairCoushions.com $4,400
SteelFurniture.com $11,099

Factoring in the somewhat comparable sales, mini-site and income generated I am asking $2,500. As a bonus I will include 10 unique furniture related articles to the site. First person to contact me for purchase will get this domain name.

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