davidjewlian

…is much more difficult than I had originally imagined.

Hi, my name is David, and welcome to my newly-christened nook of the cyberwebs. On a whim last night, I decided to purchase this domain and all the ancillary products that one needs to actually create a web space. Nickel and dime, I tell you, but I’m sure well worth it.

Buying the domain was an interesting experience, and a good lesson in what they told us in university is called “one-to-one marketing.” Think like what Amazon.com does with its personalized “you might also like…” offerings. While buying davidjewlian.com for a paltry $9.99/year, I was given the option of some other, premium URLs. Addresses such as:

davidhebrewlian.com - $9.99

Now, I know my page name doesn’t make a whole lot of sense unless you know my middle name and the hilariously pun-ny spelling error, but really? “Hebrewlian”? At least it’s cheap.

singleorthodoxjews.com - $104.00

Now this one I can understand the premium price for. We don’t live in small Polish towns anymore, and outside of Borough Park, Brooklyn, I’m sure it’s hard to find a strong community of Orthodox Jews, much less single ones. Believe me, I’ve had enough tangential experience with dating sites to know that the URL may be a worthwhile investment.

jewishjews.com - $500.00

Now this just seems unnecessarily repetitive. And I think “superjews.com” would catch more eyes–but of course that address is already registered.

africanamericanjews.com - $549.00

Again, makes sense. There are a lot of African American Jews out there who should have a place on the Internet to congregate and discuss what it’s like to be a minority of minorities. Note to all of entrepreneurial spirit: caucasianjews.com is still available. There may be some possible synergistic ideas here.

medievaljews.com - $599.00

Six hundred dollars?? Six hundred dollars for medievaljews.com? I didn’t even know there were that many Jews in medieval times. I thought we all got killed by the Spanish.

So welcome to my far less premium, but just as compelling space on the Internets, davidjewlian.com: an impulse buy.

DS