I have an confession to make: I'm addicted to registering domain names.

It all started innocently enough back in the grand ol' year 2000. Those were the days with plucky young dreams of magic flying cars and internets as far as one could see. Our only hopes were for bigger, stronger boy bands featuring possibly seven awkwardly aging youth. In these modest times I registered RefreshingContent.com and immediately declared a national holiday. Even worse, at the time I passed up quite a few other cool names but $10 is a heck of a lot of money for a college kid. (Little did I know that the virtual land rush was far from over and only beginning to get profitable.)

Looking at this list compiled by Read/Write Web only fuels my addiction. A dot mobi domain, which went on sale for the first time less than six months ago, sold for $200,000! Dot nets, and infos, and US...my rage cannot be adequately expressed even through emoticons.

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Nope, nothing. Now I'm haunted by the ghosts of domain searches past. Every lost name was a missed opportunity. And with this crippling obsession comes a bigger responsibility, to never make the same mistake again. Even if I must let them sit blank, I must register whatever random name pops into my head and live with my awkward child. This is the way of the domain samurai.

This blathering does come to a point though (eventually) and that point shows where my mind is. I'm working hard on inking my upcoming book "Welcome to Pixelton", and I've been thinking quite a bit about how to launch it with style. How can I bring in new comics fans? How do I show off what I feel is a new genre of comics? Only time will tell, but take a gander at but a few of the domains that I have obsessively snapped while waiting:

ComicArt.mobi
FreeComics.mobi
HighDefComics.com
HighDefinitionComics.com
PaperfreeComics.com
Xbox360Comics.com
PS3Comics.com
NintendoDSComics.com
NintendoWiiComics.com

Sadly...these are only a few. But you probably get the idea.