Renewal came around and five names were on the list. All five stayed, and all five are getting sites. The renewal decision and the build decision used to be separate for me. They aren’t anymore. If a name is worth keeping, it’s worth putting something on, even a small thing, because an empty name and a name with a working site look nothing alike to anyone who lands on it.

Renewal season comes around and the invoice arrives with a question attached to every line. Keep paying, or let it go? I go through them one at a time, and most of the time the answer takes about four seconds. Sometimes it takes a week. Nine names came through this round. Here’s what I like about each one. The Inference Names I own five names sitting on the same piece of vocabulary: aiinferences.

The renewal invoice is the only honest moment in this whole hobby. Once a year the registrar puts a number next to every name and asks whether I still believe in it. No buyer, no traffic, no story — just me deciding to pay or let it drop. This batch came to $202.03 across seventeen names. Here is the reasoning, name by name, with nothing dressed up. Short is its own argument RMQA.