lostarmymates.co.uk

We were watching Silent Witness on the telly last night and during the storyline one of the pathologists wanted to track down ex-army soldiers. So, he went to a PC and was shown visiting lostarmymates.co.uk

As I was using my laptop and happened to be looking at some domain name ideas to add to my portfolio, I checked to see if lostarmymates was actually registered. It wasn’t of course (the BBC can’t be seen to promote online services), though it is now!

I quickly registered the domain with namesco; registered a new blogger blog; used the custom domain option to have the blog appear on my new domain name. To do this you need to be able to set the DNS CNAME setting (it really is simple) and whilst they aren’t the cheapest for a .co.uk namesco give you full DNS access whereas someone like fasthosts for example don’t.

Quickly picked a template, added an adsense link unit in the sidebar and added some google analytics code for good measure. One very brief post about finding old mates and away we go.

The morning after …according to adsense the site received 68 page impressions and generated less than a dollar in revenue last night. Analytics indicates 37 visitors, 34 being direct type-ins and a couple of searches for the domain name.

Made a loss of course (to-date) but it’ll be interesting to see how much traffic the site continues to receive. I’ll let you know.