The break was beneficial to me as it led to me thinking in a lot of detail about how to take my domaining activites to the next level.

Although I have not been posting to Domaining.org.uk I have been developing my other sites. I have also been developing a new business strategy taking into account the new, more challenging economic conditions. By working a little less intensely compared with a few months ago I have decided on a few changes that will,in the long run be beneficial.

As a result of my efforts since Jan 2009, ManchesterWide.com, my ‘flagship’ geo website is showing encouraging signs of life, even though it is not, as yet, a financial success. However, with a lot more hard work I am hoping that will turn that corner.

I have been adding to my domain name portfolio while at the same time disposing of those domains that will not generate the results I’m looking for.

I have plans to develop Nameable.co.uk as my core site which will list my domains for sale and link to my developed sites and mini-sites. There is also a possibility that I will use it as a blogging base around naming strategies, running SME businesses and web 2.0 – sounds impressive!

Despite my objections to mini-sites I have been developing many of my own. They do well from type in traffic and on exact match searches via the search engines.

I have domain names for in the region of 250 different viable sites. Although my portfolio amounts to in excess of 400 domains there are duplicates like ManchesterWide.com/ .co.uk and variants like recreationvehicle.co.uk/recreationvehicles.co.uk.