Some rumor about Owen Frager leaving blogging and domaining behind made me worry for a while. After all, Owen is an “old timer” that precedes the digital era that many current entrepreneurs and developers were born into.
In fact, Owen isn’t going anywhere and the whole thing was an apparent misunderstanding and a misquote of his intention to leave the social media.
However, apparently speculation grew as Owen’s popular blog, FragerFactor.com was temporarily down earlier tonight.
Owen has already issued an explanation that he’s not leaving domaining or blogging; in fact, he’s back with no fewer than three posts in a row, some of which will be leap-frogging other people’s posts in the am.
But it is what it is.
I like Owen Frager and because he doesn’t take any shit from anyone, including myself, I respect his way of sticking to his guns and speaking from experience. Nothing can be more aggravating than blatant disrespect from new players; that, I realized myself on several occasions.
The Frager Factor brings a lot of character to the domain blogosphere and I’m certain that a lot of non-domainers read it, especially people in marketing and creative. So after this short hiccup, I’m glad to see Owen “back”.
Speaking of speculation and rumors, the type that I thrive on rebutting is the malicious kind. But more on that later 😉
This industry is not for the weak or timid, glad to see him get back in the ring. I enjoy reading his blog, hope he keeps at it.
Frager is newer than me now, since he just got back in the game. His Old-Timer continuum has been broken.
Acro, I’ve been developing some of my Properties, trying to put a stop to the nickel and diming of domain owners by ‘Parkers’. Anything beats parking a domain with these people. Go to my Blog and review some of my Properties… I will have hundreds ready in a few weeks. Go here:
http://domainxing.blogspot.com/
I’ve never been much of a rumor-mill, until yesterday 😉 Unintentionally.
What happened was I published the tweets I read (@nameswing) and the email Owen replied to me with when I asked him to comment on being “done in the social scene”. Maybe he should have looked at the tweet I gave him as reference? Oh and if he didn’t want me to publish our email conv perhaps Owen could at least taken the time to formally address me, you know like “Hi Mike, thanks for the interest.. let’s keep this conversation private for now..” Or something a little more personal. The reply to my inquiry was just a paragraph and his name, nothing else.
I feel like I made it crystal clear I was contacting him for a blog story. Anyway, Finally was able to fix my domaining.com headline today (something quirky was up couldn’t last night).
Above all I am glad that he’s not “done” either. I most enjoy the domainsuccess email newsletter, it’s usually a good inspirational read.
Dean – I fully agree 🙂
Uzoma – I’ll let that one slide as it’s a Friday 😉
Mike – I’m sure Owen – a publicity guy by his own admission – didn’t mind the extra traffic after all 😀
TGIF
I don’t think it was a rumor, Mike, since my tweets were based on my discovery when going to FF and reminded of Owen’s own post. I’ve commented on his blog in more detail.
Bottom line is you contacted him in an effort to get the story straight and felt you had it right.
Bobby – I think it’s a coincidence that FragerFactor.com forwards currently to a broken link of some sort. I notified Owen about it. TheFragerFactor.com resolves correctly.
Neither FragerFactor.com or DomainSuccess.com resolved at the time of my post, not do they resolve now.
^ nor do they resolve now.. and yes I understand that he uses blogspot for the official blog.
@Bobby – it’s all pretty confusing, thanks for the support.
Yep. I got that now thanks to you. Most people don’t navigate to Frager Factor using FragerFactor.com so It took a while for me to get it. Expired credit card caused hosting to be suspended on auto-renewal. The bank had contacted me that thir database had been compromised and that they were recalling 3 million Mastercard accounts. I got a new account number and card (this was six months ago) but didn’t think about all the auto-pays linked to it and the need to reboot them manually. A great lesson learned here.
But after all the business I’ve given them over 11 years, I think they’d email me and tell me the card didn’t go through rather than knocking two websites off the air over $83.