James Wiseman

I saw this homepage recently, where the website ownser offers anyone else with the name “Ashley Hurst” an email address @JamesWiseman.com and it occurred to me that it might be nice to offer an equivalent service here on JamesWiseman.com.

So, if your name is James Wiseman, and you are looking for an email address @JamesWiseman.com then drop me a line.

I currently have dibs on the following:

• mail
• james
• adsense
• webmaster

But you are welcome to anything else (within reason – nothing sweary or offensive)

I’m not planning to charge anything, but if it becaomes hassle to administer, then I may ask for a small one-off fee, or something.

We can work the details out

Occasionally, I like to give my mind a treat, and visit some of those sites that claim to be able to value domains. I made reference to one, StrategicFirst back in my post of May last year, Your Website Archive on the WayBack Machine, which valued my site at $5000!

Last time I checked StrategicFirst was no longer with us, but there are some more, which I thought I would share.

Firstly we have the the valuation service at err, $timator.Com. This values the domain name at a whopping $35,692 at the time of writing.

Not to be outdone, TweetValue.com values it at an eye-watering $140,951!

Does exactly what it says on the tin site ValueTheWebsite.com is a little more conservative at $5,441.

Suspiciously similar is the valuation at domainvalue.congland.com, which quotes the value as $5,413.

Perhaps slightly more realistic is the valuation at estibot.com, which estimates the worth as $380.

dnScoop attempts to ruin my fun by valuing it at a paltry $27!

That’s more like it! CubeStat.com cheers me up a little with a valuation of $1,721.34.

Valuate.com comes in with some identical stats to estibot.com. $380 again.

Meanwhile, URLAppraisal.net estimates $19,650.15.

Two more, $2,850 at MySiteCost.com and £1,269 (UKP) at EstimURL.com.

I’m getting bored now, but time for one final estimate. According to WebArtiter.com, JamesWiseman.com is worth $7391.25.

I stopped on page 2 of a Google search for “domain value” (unquoted). Looking at pages 3 onwards there would appear to be many more. This seems to me like a perfect opportunity for some sort of aggregation utility.

In reality I’m never going to sell this site unless I get a really good offer. Regardless of how much it is worth to someone else, its worth a lot to me, and represents a lot of my time invested.

May 2010 was the first full month that this blog was online, so I’d thought i’d share some stats from this. This is something I hope to do each month.

The stats are from the AWStats log analyzer tool on the control panel of my hosting account.

All

Here are the stats from the most significant browser hits above 1%. MSIE is way out in the lead, but somewhat down I would suspect on where it was a couple of years ago.

MSIE

The vast majority of MSIE hit came from the three latest versions, 8, 7 and 6. It’s particularly nice to IE6 trailing off, although not as quickly as I would have liked.

And a small bit of wierdness: One hit from MSIE 2.0, which celebrates it 15th birthday in November of this year! Who still uses that?

Firefox

There are, quite simply, millions (62, actually) of different versions of Firefox that browsed this site in May 2010, ranging from 1.0.1 (2 hits) to 3.6.4 (57 hits). The largest number of hits came from version 3.6.3 and accounted for 12% of all browser hits.