You know, when I first read your comment, I almost registered it again. But that would’ve defeated the whole purpose.

I know all the reasons to hold on to it. In fact, that’s how I rationalized it for the last couple years.

But a big part of letting go of anything in life, is accepting sunken costs — whether their tangible, personal, or emotional.

In this case, I wanted to let go of the personal. But even the tangible: that domain has cost me about $10 a year for the last few years. It’s been banned by Google Adsense. It’s page rank dropped from a 4 to a 0. And it wasn’t anything that made sense (kinda like gypsybandito).

It wasn’t worth squat. And if someone else can make a dime off of it, I wish them the best ‘cuz I never could.

I guess part of letting go is not hoarding. It’s not good to be a pack-rat. Nostalgia is a dangerous vice. It can creep up on you and sour your mojo.

That, and it’s sentimental… and that’s just base.

As much as you had an emotional tie to this name, from the objective side there are lots of reasons to hold on to such a name. “Aged” domain names have greater value than new ones. You may have been able to park it to gain some revenue from the name. Even a microsote at the domain could have gained some value for it. Rather than letting it drop, selling it may have been an option.

So what was it?!

mp/m