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I went to each of the listed sold domains. Working: --AppalachianTrail.com [SOLD] | --BearSpray.com [SOLD] Broken/parked: --CowboysAndIndians.com [SOLD] -

by Zhenya 6y ago

I went to each of the listed sold domains. Working: --AppalachianTrail.com [SOLD] | --BearSpray.com [SOLD] Broken/parked: --CowboysAndIndians.com [SOLD] --WeBuyLand.com [SOLD] | --Ziplines.com [SOLD] | --LambChops.com [SOLD] Thought that was interesting.

eightturn 6y ago
author here. I wish I'd kept Ziplines.. I could build something neat on that. Needed cash at the time, so had to sell.
- Zhenya 6y ago
  That one seems like a good one. Where can I go to zipline in my area...
- nedwin 6y ago
  Do you think they bought it to develop and just never got around to it? Or as an investment, something to sell again in the future?
mauvehaus 6y ago
The content on AppalachianTrail.com is disappointingly shallow to put it mildly. The second most popular article on the site, about carrying a firearm on the AT, can be boiled down to "the laws are complicated, here's a lawyer joke and 2 links". Regardless of your stance on guns, an article making an honest attempt to address the question of carrying one might, just maybe, talk about the laws of each of the 14 states the trail passes through and address the question of the various federal jurisdictions the trail passes through as well. Maybe you'd also try to find some hikers who have tried to carry guns and interview them. The food and water articles are similarly shallow. You could write a chapter or more on each. The article on menstruation is just outright copied from another blog, with attribution, to be fair. And there's nothing about the current COVID-19 situation. Honestly, it's a lot of low-effort unmaintained content that doesn't add much, if anything, to what you can find with several minutes of googling. It's the kind of site that I assume is peppered with ads (or maybe affiliate links, I didn't look too hard) to make a couple of bucks. Anybody looking for actual information about the AT would be better served by any of the following: appalachiantrail.ORG <- The ATC whiteblaze.net <- AT hiker forum thetrek.co <- formerly appalachianTRIALS.com https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ <- This is what actual niche content looks like.
- eightturn 6y ago
  author here.. oddly, I sold AppalachianTrail to fund my purchase of DudeRanch. If I still owned AT, I woulda hiked the whole thing, recorded the experienced on the website, and then maybe hired some ex-hikers to provide guided recommendations for the trail for a small fee. Something like that.
  - mauvehaus 6y ago
    Oh man, I’d have loved to hear how that turned out as a business plan! There’s so much free advice on whiteblaze to compete with, some of it even good :-) If you have the time, an AT thru-hike is a wonderful, affirming, and life-changing experience. If you can’t conjure up that much time, Vermont’s Long Trail is a great hike. If you do a long-distance hike, please write it up! I enjoyed this and the onion piece quite a bit.

by Zhenya 6y ago

eightturn 6y ago

author here. I wish I'd kept Ziplines.. I could build something neat on that. Needed cash at the time, so had to sell.

Zhenya 6y ago
That one seems like a good one. Where can I go to zipline in my area...
nedwin 6y ago
Do you think they bought it to develop and just never got around to it? Or as an investment, something to sell again in the future?

mauvehaus 6y ago

The content on AppalachianTrail.com is disappointingly shallow to put it mildly. The second most popular article on the site, about carrying a firearm on the AT, can be boiled down to "the laws are complicated, here's a lawyer joke and 2 links". Regardless of your stance on guns, an article making an honest attempt to address the question of carrying one might, just maybe, talk about the laws of each of the 14 states the trail passes through and address the question of the various federal jurisdictions the trail passes through as well. Maybe you'd also try to find some hikers who have tried to carry guns and interview them. The food and water articles are similarly shallow. You could write a chapter or more on each. The article on menstruation is just outright copied from another blog, with attribution, to be fair. And there's nothing about the current COVID-19 situation. Honestly, it's a lot of low-effort unmaintained content that doesn't add much, if anything, to what you can find with several minutes of googling. It's the kind of site that I assume is peppered with ads (or maybe affiliate links, I didn't look too hard) to make a couple of bucks. Anybody looking for actual information about the AT would be better served by any of the following: appalachiantrail.ORG <- The ATC whiteblaze.net <- AT hiker forum thetrek.co <- formerly appalachianTRIALS.com https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ <- This is what actual niche content looks like.

eightturn 6y ago
author here.. oddly, I sold AppalachianTrail to fund my purchase of DudeRanch. If I still owned AT, I woulda hiked the whole thing, recorded the experienced on the website, and then maybe hired some ex-hikers to provide guided recommendations for the trail for a small fee. Something like that.
- mauvehaus 6y ago
  Oh man, I’d have loved to hear how that turned out as a business plan! There’s so much free advice on whiteblaze to compete with, some of it even good :-) If you have the time, an AT thru-hike is a wonderful, affirming, and life-changing experience. If you can’t conjure up that much time, Vermont’s Long Trail is a great hike. If you do a long-distance hike, please write it up! I enjoyed this and the onion piece quite a bit.