A while back, I enabled the My Stats feature on my Flickr account. Using it, I can see overall and individual photo viewing statistics. What have I found? This picture is my most popular picture, having been viewed 515 times since posted. Further, it has been viewed 41 times just this week and eight times yesterday. All of the hits come from direct accesses, not from search engines or views on Flickr.

Why is this picture so popular? Who on the Internet is linking to this? And now, I guess I'm making it worse by linking to it myself. Oh well...

It just occurred to me. I need help. Some kind of intervention. I now own eighteen domain names. Four of those are parked and don't actually go anywhere, and at least two are in limbo.

The breakdown:

• 5 .com
• 3 .net
• 10 .org

The worst part is that I'm using DirectNIC as my registrar. While they're an awesome registrar, each of these domains costs $15/yr. I think I need to find a cheaper one, because $270 on domains a year is just insane. Some are paid a few years out, but still.

The newest addition to my domain collection is vmkernel.com. VMkernel is the name of the VMware ESX kernel thingy. Maybe I'll start some kind of virtualization site or something. I'm also sitting on askasysadmin.com, though I never did anything with it.

If anybody knows of any good but cheaper registrars, please let me know. I don't think I want to go to GoDaddy. I mean, it is called GoDaddy.

The saddest part is that while I was writing this, I thought of two more domains I need to get. I should just start a registrar at this point.