Whoopsadaisy

A book containing a tip or two for Chris

Namecritic is an SEO, so it’s hilarious that he’s being destroyed in the search engine rankings for his own name, Chris McElroy, by a Realtor. What’s that little bit funnier is that we’re outranking him for his own name too! He obviously doesn’t know what he is doing when it comes to SEO, but does he know what he is doing when it comes to domains?

Well, there is certainly evidence to the contrary. Chris claims to have got started in the domain industry business 12 years ago, earning the moniker “Namecritic” for his sharp eye and worldly perspective on the domain industry. Or, so he likes to tell people!

Today I got thinking: why on earth doesn’t Chris own chrismcelroy.com or christophermcelroy.com? You would think such an early entrant into the domain industry would have thought this to be obvious. But, nope. He never got around to it. What makes it worse is that he could have picked up christophermcelroy.com in 2007. Not everyone wants to own their name dot com; but with an ego the size of Chris McElroy’s, it’s hard to imagine why not.

Tidlywinks, it’s time to sharpen up.