Last year I posted some ideas for domain names on my domain page. One of these was mywebwill.com, I was just checking suitable domain names for some of the ideas from i want ideas.com and came upon this one for the idea of transferring all of your usernames and passwords for your online accounts to someone after you die. mywebwill.com was registered on the 7th of September 2009 and the idea and website have since come to life. Here's a summary of the service from the site itself:

My Webwill is a secure online service that allows you to make decisions about your Internet accounts after your death. The majority of sites we use on a daily basis are password protected – as a result there is no way for your loved ones to access your immaterial assets. For the people being left behind, the process of accessing sites and blogs is difficult and often impossible. Moreover, would they know what you wanted?

We have created My Webwill so that you can take control of your immaterial assets, even in the afterlife.

and a youtube video from founders Lisa Granberg and Elin Tybring explaining how the service works.

This is proof that ideas will come to life with a bit of though and some hard work. Why not check out iwantideas.com tosee if there's any ideas that you can bring to life!

Domain hunting again today and thinking of a few ideas. Came up with a new one: prepaybay.com. This could be used for an auction site where the bidder must have enough money in their account before bidding. Bidding on an item locks down the bidders money and ensures that the seller gets paid every time. The selllers prepaybay account then gets updated with the money and they can withdraw if they like. I just came up with this idea after seeing an auction on ebay where someone had made a fake bid and wrecked the auction. A website like prepaybay.com would eliminate this kind of thing. Anyway, I'm not going with this idea as I have a few other projects coming up over the Summer. If you read the rest of this article you'll discover that when it comes to domain names I'm capable of coming up with the odd gem (even if I don't always register them ). If you like the idea of prepaybay.com, why not paste it in to the box below and go register it!

	.com .net .org .us .biz .info .tv .cc .ws .ca .de .jp .co.uk .org.uk .co.nz .net.nz .org.nz .mobi .eu

I did however come up with another domain name for a novel idea relating to Twitter. I'm going to ask someone else for advice before going ahead with it. I actually messed up big time a few weeks ago. I was looking at ripmichaeljackson.com and michaeljacksonrip.com and was going to buy both. I ended up not buying either of them! If I would have asked advice on this I maybe would have snapped them up! So why did I mess up? Well ripmichaeljackson.com just sold on ebay for $1025 and I see it's up for sale again, although it's not doing as well this time. If I'd have bought both of them I'm sure I would have been able to selll both together for a lot more. Now, I'm not saying that prepaybay.com is going to be worth this kind of money. An idea is nothing without the hard work to complete the project (and maybe this has been done before?!? drop me a comment to let me know if it has). But it just goes to show that there can be money made on domains names if you think and act fast! This makes me think, would it be worth registering webregrets.com as a forum where people come to admit mistakes they've made online... I'll leave it for now.. no regrets if someone else goes ahead with it! I also updated the domains section of this site with this idea.

I added a new page on this site to list domain names, that are available (at the time of writing) and a short note on what they could be used for.

photo credit: Bull3t

It's getting harder every day to find domain names that are free and suitable for your ideas, so it'll be interesting to check back every so often and see if any of these are taken in a few days, months or years down the line.

The very first domain name that I added to the list is 99centlogos.com, it's an idea I had where webmasters in need of a quick logo can come on and get a very fast turnaround on a logo design for 99cents.

I posted an article over on another site today for the first time. It's good as it shows I'm expanding into other areas already as a result of this blog. I'll not go in to too much detail on it as it's still a 'potential' partnership that I may be entering in to. I don't mind providing one article for free until we've ironed out a proper agreement for the partnership and wanted to show my commitment to the project by getting stuck in there straight away.

When we get everything in place and I've earned my place on the team then I'll come back and update this post with a link to the article. Hope this isn't being too secretive but I like to do things right and it's only correct for me not to claim any rights to this already established site until we get things sorted. When I get the green light and it's all systems go, I've full confidence that everything is going to work out well and that it's an exciting project to get involved in.

photo credit: Sebastián-Dario

I've lots of ideas for it already and hopefully I'll have more on it within the next week! The guest post I provided was a pretty long one and took me a while so I'm keeping this short and sweet, that's all for now folks!

When I kicked off this blog on the 1st May 2009, I wasn't too sure what direction I'd be taking with it. One thing I did have in mind was to be the next 'make money online' blog Essentially, yes I'd like to be able to make a living online or at least supplement my current income. But the idea of this being specifically a make money online blog covered in advertising, trying to get recognised by search engines as a make money online blog quickly went out the window!

I soon realised that this blog won't succeed if I'm in it for the money. I know lots of bloggers say this, but there's a difference between taking the advice of others and realising something for yourself by learning on the job! How did I realise this? Well, first and foremost I discovered that I actually enjoyed the sense of achievement of having my own site and posting daily even though I didn't have a clue how to monetize this site. I still don't have that much of a clue really and it's not that important to me, but I'm learning all the time and will be ready if and when I need to be.

photo credit: go to /theworldsaddress/ instead

My thoughts and ideas might not be what everybody is after, but if only one person gets some value or enjoyment out of reading my posts then it's been worthwhile writing it! I also realised that it's not just a matter of going flat out trying to get every affiliate program and ad on my site and hoping for people to come on and click and make me some quick bucks! I'm sure some people have been able to do this, but if I advertise something here and someone purchases a useless product or service that they aren't happy with, then they aren't gonna bother coming back to this site ever again. I don't have the traffic to worry about this yet but if I did then If I loose even one reader like this, I've been stupid. A blog without readers and participation is nothing so there's no value in making a quick buck this way if you want to succeed long term! I'd like to think that anything that I do advertise on this site or anywhere else at any stage is a valued product that I know enough about to be confident in promoting it.

This is my online CV and I hope that I'll be able to use it as a focal point to concentrate on online projects. When I get enough readers and earn people's trust then 'maybe' I can look at generating some income out of these projects/websites when I advertise them on my blog! I say 'maybe' as it's not definite that every (or any) of the projects I am or will be working on, are or will be sure fire earners! Indeed, I'm not really focused on doing projects that are solely designed to generate revenue. I might get more enjoyment and experience from a project that I know isn't going to earn a red cent from the offset!

So what's the point then? Well that's what I've realised, this blog isn't here to make money, it's here as something that I get enjoyment out of and hopefully create some money making opportunities from down the line. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't I'm still enjoying what I'm doing and hopefully getting involved in more and more projects which look good on my CV in the future.

The general consensus is that the success rate of entrepreneurs is approximately 20% (correct me if I'm wrong) so for every 5 projects I kick of with a view to making money out of hopefully 1 works I've over simplified that a lot, but what I'm trying to say really is that I'm not too concerned for now about making a living online but more about enjoying the experience of trying to come up with ideas that might work! If I stop enjoying working on this blog and the other projects I'm involved in, then there's no point in continuing with them. Obviously I can't have this attitude with everything I do, but I can with this blog and my online ventures as it's my space and my time I'm using and I'm here to enjoy it!