I’ve got a problem.

Late at night I used to crawl eBay. I could spend hours looking through random listings, watching old ones expire, see new ones creep in, go bargain hunting with or without ever actually buying anything.

That was 2007.

In 2008 I’ve become a domain name junkie, something that hits me when I sit down to do some work on the laptop late at night when I don’t have a heavy workload on. I end up crawling GoDaddy.com looking for domain names thinking to myself “Yes, I’ll do something with that one”.

Last night was no different as the collection of domains I have across two providers passes the 60 mark.

There are some good bargains to be had - .com domains for $9.99 and under (save another few percent with the coupon code “saveten”), .ca domains now for $12.99 if you’re in the market for a Canadian web presence. But this isn’t a sales pitch.

What I find myself doing is buying the domain name, attaching it to a pre-existing hosting account (deluxe accounts all the support of multiple domains to individual directories) and placing a blog there. It keeps me on my toes in terms of setup, delivery, then pushes me to the creative side to come up with a logo for the domain I’ve just picked, a custom blog theme, custom blog features and get everything launched.

With that said, you can expect I’ll be telling you in the not-too-distant future that I’ve gone and launched yet another blog of some form. Whether the blog stays maintained or gets passed over to someone else doesn’t matter so much to me. I think I’m just addicted to blogging in general.

It is a test though and if you’ve ever thought of adding a second blog to your collection why not go my route?

• Choose a blog topic
• Choose a suitable domain name
• Design a logo
• Design a blog theme
• Launch the blog and make your first post

Of course, the flipside to that is with my growing collection of domain names purchase on late-night whims, they’ll eventually have to be renewed, something which can become quite an expensive habit.

But the feeling of getting a new theme out there, a new blog started is quite a good one. In the end, if it gives you ammunition for a portfolio or something you can retail to a prospective client or on the freelance market then you’re on a winner all round.

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