Noobs, fear, and .info domains
I’d never bought a .info domain before. In fact, to say I’m supposedly an “internet marketer”, I don’t think I’ve bought many domains at all in the past. Still, it was an interesting experience.
The word on the street was that GoDaddy are the people to go to, and so they were, offering me a domain for a measly 91p. Now, you can laugh all you want, but I was actually confused. The interface, the shopping cart, the flashing lights. Man, it was like walking into a shopping centre at Christmas. It took me a whole half an hour to navigate my way through, past the clumsey displays - “No, I don’t want to add web hosting to my basket, but you’ve added it anyway”.
But I prevailed, and out of the flames and smoke I come brandishing my newly claimed domains. I was taken aback at how stressful it was, and it made me think how hard it must be for all those noobs who’ve never done this sort of thing. I’m used to messing around with my server, and cutting and pasting bits of PHP, just the odd thing here and there. But when I was confronted by something new, something alien, I stopped like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming vehicle.
“This must be what it feels like to be a noob”. So hats off to any those noobs that actually make it in online business cos from my brief little encounter I have a feeling it’s pretty tough.