I've been winnowing my collection again and now I have 46 domains. Mostly, I've been replacing .net/.com domains with much cheaper .uk domains. I am still holding on to my .nu's though I did drop one. It was a fanlisting collective so no longer needed. I think this is the lowest number of domains I've owned for a fair few years. I never want to let it creep up to 100 again.
2024's tally so far: 46
I seem to have whittled my collection "down" to 51 domains. I dropped a .nu, and bought two more; one of them an old one I've recovered. Namecheap's are still expensive, but I found Stablehost, which sells them at a lower price. Oh dear. I can feel another addiction forming. As I had not updated this site in a long time, I'm doing an autumn-cleaning now.
2023's tally so far: 51
I feel like singing that awful theme song to "Star Trek: Enterprise". It's been a long road, getting from here to there. Over the past seven years I fell out of love with domains, collectives and all that jazz. I dropped my original domain collective, coloured.nu when I whittled down my tally of .nu domain from 12 to 4. But when I realised that my domain count was slowly creeping back up again, I decided to renew the idea of a collective. If only so I can keep an eye on what I actually have.
2022's tally so far: 49
I've been doing some more spring-cleaning I am still a domain addict. Although I did get rid of some domains, I now have 77. How on earth did that happen? One or two are duplicated; I've added a couple of .uk tlds on top of .co.uk's. I've finished with fanlistings for good and for all, so the domains I had bought specifically for fanlistings are being dropped. Unless I can "repurpose" them! I couldn't resist some of the new domains tlds that have been released over the past couple of years. I still love Namecheap's marketplace, though they've made it difficult to find .nu domains for sale.
2015's tally so far: I renewed a bunch and let a few drop. I've deleted most of my .me domains.
I've been doing a spot of summer-cleaning and I decided to make Coloured into a domain collective. So I've been sorting through things, listing all the domains I have and I came to the rather stunned conclusion that I am, indeed, a domain addict. I currently have 72 domains. And I say currently because I know that I whittled it down from 100 a while ago and if the mood takes me, could easily get back up there again.
I find it hard to let them drop: I see it as abandoning them. That's probably why I like to buy domains from Namecheap's marketplace. I like knowing that I've "rescued" the domain from whatever terrible pit of oblivion that unwanted domains fall into. Yes, I know it's silly, but that's how I feel. I cling on to the first domains I owned, because I could never let them drop.
July's tally so far: I renewed songs.nu and uninvited.nu and bought starsfalling.net and summer-rain.pw from Namecheap's marketplace.