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Happy Birthday to John Chow dot Com

written by John Chow on March 23, 2007

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Seven years ago today, I registered the domain name JohnChow.com. I have completely forgotten when I registered the name until Staska.Net looked it up as part of the Make Money Online review.

In addition to JohnChow.com, I also registered JohnChow.net and JohnChow.org on that day. However, I only renewed the dot com domain. Looking back, I should have kept them all, but I didn’t know as much about the Net back then as I do now.

Thanks to Staska.Net for reminding me that John Chow dot Com is seven years old today. His review of my blog was one of best I’ve read. It will be part of batch 44.

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Belated happy birthday, John Chow Dot Com. I wish you more awesome years online, man!

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Adam Henningsen

So what was John Chow before the famous blog?

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ilker

I'm a little late.. Happy Belated Birthday! :smile:

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Jason Landals

All I have to say it's been fun working with you over at TheTechZone.com. From one person who is just starting out in blogging (picked a hell of a time, didn't I) to someone who is well established I say congratulations.

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Stuart Hannig

Damn, seven years ago. No wonder why you got this domain so easy :)

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FayZ

Heppiii birthday blog.. :mrgreen: :lol:

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Calvin Harvey

Hayppy Belated B-day John Chow dot Com!

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zaki

Happy belated birthday....

Wish you a more prosperous and wonderful life in future. :razz: :grin:

By the way...how old are you??

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David Paul Robinson

Happy Birthday John Chow dot com!!!

DPR

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Dave

Happy Birthday JohnChow.com! :)

See, there are no instant successes that last on the Internet. Just lots of time, hard work and a bit of evil? :)

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NetMoneyFAQ; Internet Marketing

Happy Birthday JohnChow.com, I wish you another 7 no 70 happy ones. Keep up the good work!

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Josh Rives

Yet this past year seems to have been the most successful for the domain. Congrats

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lyndonmaxewell

Yea, and to think that he only started monetizing his domain only six months back.. :shock:

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Dave

Well, you have to build up a good traffic base before you start advertising. I think he started advertising after is traffic started to snowball.

I could be wrong though...

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lyndonmaxewell

Happy Birthday to JC.Com! P.S. it seems that the .net and .org are claimed by domain squatters to redirect traffic.. :twisted:

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esofthub

Happy Birthday John Chow DOT com. This is definitely one of the better blogs in the so-called "Blogosphere."

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Martin Lindsey

Happy birthday to you, uh, the URL, uh.... Have you thought of buying the other extensions off who ever may own them now? Darren Rouse just bought the .com version of problogger after all these years off an e-bay auction. Maybe there's still a chance to diversify your extensions.

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Marc

Happy birthday JohnChow.com!

Don't forget to let us know when your birthday is John so we can all fly to Vancouver and party. I can stay on your couch right?

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ilker

"I can stay on your couch right?" :lol:

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KellyCho

Feliz Anniversario!
I hope your great posts keep coming for many more years!

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Gdog

Happy Birthday, keep the posts coming.

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Ronaldo

Happy Birthday! This blog has surely inspired a lot of people to start their own blogs or to try and monetize existing ones.

Keep up the great work.

For those who wonder what JohnChow.com looked like before 2005, look it up in the Internet Archive. It has improved a little... :smile:

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Kumiko

Oh my god! That is hilarious! I definitely think the site should go back to that design! And bring back that funky intro too!!

Kumiko

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lyndonmaxewell

Yea at that point in time, I could say that the intro was pretty good as well! :D

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Jane May

Take it back, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back!

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Culture Shiok!

I like the intro... sounds very techie!

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ilker

I proposed a professional design to John Chow but he refused it.

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Dave

Hahah love the mid 90's flash intro, it's great :)

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Kumiko

Hmmm....I wonder who the new owner of http://www.JohnChow.info is? :twisted:

It's amazing what you can buy for a dollar!

Happy Birthday Mr. Chow! Thank you for bringing out the evil in us all! :grin:

Kumiko
xo

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John Chow

I own the dot Com. It's all that matters. :twisted:

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Marc

A very true statement. Registering a popular .com under another TLD is pretty useless. A website like this one is a brand. Brands are recognized. Would you go to Wolmart?

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Saman Sadeghi

No, but what about Wa-Mart.info?

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Paula Mooney

Happy Birthday to U...RL

Happy Birthday to U...RL

Happy Birthday dear JohnChow DOT com...

Happy Birthday to U...RL

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ilker

Hehe... nice one Paula :grin:

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Stephanie

What kind of cake? I like chocolate cake with vanilla frosting... all other cake is inferior!

Happy B-Day, JohnChow.com!

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ilker

I like chocolate + banana cakes :razz:

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Shawn Knight

Yey, so will you be throwing a huge birthday bash to celebrate, with free food and drinks for all?? :mrgreen:

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Culture Shiok!

free plane tickets? :mrgreen:

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Saman Sadeghi

How about free: analyze-my-site-and-make-it-make money-for-me?!

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Dave

I don't put much stock into website consultants. Maybe I'm cynical, but I've always thought if someone had the expertise and knew all the secrets to making a website wildly successful, they would spend their time making their own websites successful. :)

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ilker

John Chow and free doesn't go together.. unless you are the one offering it! :evil:

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ilker

Hey, you have French fans too! :razz:

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Corey Stroeder

Congratulations on the milestone! That is an eternity in dot com terms. :grin:

Corey

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Marc

It really is. 7 years... Won't be long now before we see domains that are 20 years old. Blink of an eye I suppose...

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lyndonmaxewell

Wow.. 20 years later. An really old & experienced internet guru by that time?

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