Wow! What a stellar resource for newbie Bloggers like me. I knew about the 25 Steps to a Wildly Successful Personal Finance Blog but had no clue about the PFBlogs.org’s Popular Posts. I can’t wait to start checking out all of the great PF blogs out there.

Thanks so much! You rock, Lazy Man!

“I would have traded 100 inbound links, to have this information, when I was starting out”
since I’m just starting out and seemingly getting this advantage that you didn’t.

Anyways, the biggest reason why I’m commenting on your blog is because we share many things in common: such that: we’re both lazy, your an engineer, I’m in my third year of engineering,our blog features on money, and lastly we don’t see blogging as work, although we’ll spend hours (late night hours-till mourning) blogging. Well good luck and best of wishes. How’d the whole engineering turn out with you?
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And that’s important to me because I’ve seen one of their famous sexist TV ads, back during SuperBowl 2006. My jaw dropped. I haven’t been watching a lot of network TV over the last ten years and I guess I had hoped that gender relations had moved into at least the nineteenth century… but in some areas, apparently not.

(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it–I’m not gonna sit here putting everyone through Feminism 101. Just take it to mean that what they put out in advertising messages goes against my personal values and we’ll leave it at that.)

And I’ve already been giving them my money forever because they allow so many other people to resell domains through them that I have no idea who’s GoDaddy and who isn’t. So every time I see one of these new discount domain sellers, I Google them to make sure. Every single time, it’s them behind it all.

And then I stopped and thought about it. OK, I’m aware of the principle that every penny you don’t spend is a penny you keep and maybe even invest. Fair enough. But is it worth it to scrounge every penny you own if your money’s going to something you really don’t like, something that violates your core beliefs? Sometimes you can’t help it, as in when you pay taxes and the government turns around and does something you don’t agree with. But when you can help it, and when what you’re buying is something you don’t strictly need, why not be a bit more discerning?

And let’s face it, what you pay for a domain name is per year, unless you pay ahead for longer. Is it really a problem to pay ten dollars a year instead of seven or eight or nine? Especially if it means you are not bankrolling a TV ad with old men leering at a young woman’s bare torso right in front of your year-old daughter?

I know GoDaddy is using Danica Patrick for advertising now, which is a slight improvement. (It’d be a monstrous improvement if she didn’t keep trying to capitalize on her sex appeal. Even if the male racers are doing it too, the important distinction is that men are not generally *expected* to do that.) But they’re going to have to do quite a bit more to balance out what they’ve pulled in the past, and the CEO’s having made excuses for it all and mocked the viewers who were concerned. A million-dollar donation to NOW might do the trick, but I think hell will freeze over first.

So… I’ll look elsewhere when it’s time to renew. And if anyone knows of any domain seller who is NOT affiliated with these bozos and who sells for cheap, I’d love to hear about them. Feel free to get in touch with me. (No spam, please.)

ken

You are welcome for the links.  I just wish I could have said it as well as the people I highlighted did.

My site will soon, hopefully by the end of the weekend, have a list of WP plug-ins I use (they seem to be scattered all over with not very good descriptions or install instructions) and a tutorial on how to host your own website from your PC.

I use/used 1and1 Domains, but I did not get the Private Registration. Where do I find that?

Thanks again Lazy for these links!