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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 8:50 PM - Tampa Indie Film Log for Filmmaker C. A. Passinault
Frontier Pop Web Site In The Works, And a Message For Gus
The cat is out
of the proverbial bag. My new pop culture and entertainment web site/
weekly online magazine, which is now officially in the works, will be
called Frontier Pop. The name was decided last week, and the more that
it was said among those who were in the loop, the better we liked it.
I bought the domain name this morning (I spent $108.00 renewing 13 domain
names and buying the new one this morning, and the reason that I waited
to buy it is because this was after a bulk discount of 25%), and then
uploaded an announcement and a cool background splash graphic on FrontierPop.Com.
Frontier Pop will also be used as the principle means of marketing my
Frontier Society web site, as well drive content creation for the long-dormant
site. There is a reason for this tactic, and it rights a serious wrong.
There is a looooong story (read more on my Tampa
DJ Blog.... I also explained what happened, to Nolan, the
other day) behind the controversy of directly marketing Frontier Society
through its domain name of Frontier-Society.Com, and it has to do with
cybersquatters taking my original domain name (which I owned in 2003),
and then buying up every incarnation of my “Frontier Society”
brand that they could think of, in an attempt to block me from marketing
with my brand, as well as tricking my target audience into visiting the
web site that those domain names now forward to. This is why the Frontier
Society has not done much with Frontier-Society.Com in the past few years
(and this crap has been ongoing for the past six years. I had the original
domain name in 2003, it lapsed, and the cybersquatter issues began in
2004).
By marketing the Frontier Society web site through Frontier Pop, as well
as DJFrontier.Com, DJWizKid.Com, TampaDJBlog.Com, FrontierView.Com, and
other sites which I own, it gets around the agenda of the cybersquatters,
and makes their investment of Frontier Society domain names worthless.
I’ve also done some things which made their scheme backfire, as
I have rerouted search engine traffic to their business from them to their
competition. I am also publishing content on Frontier Society which will
undermine the marketability of their business. I taught them a lesson,
as they messed with the wrong person on the Internet.
How did I lose my original Frontier Society name to begin with? I made
a mistake. I screwed up transferring the original domain name from Register.Com
to Godaddy.Com, it lapsed, and cybersquatters took it. They then tried
to sell it back to me for $1,600.00 (which should be a crime, in my opinion),
which is why I bought Frontier-Society.Com. I messed up again, too, by
buying the version with the hyphen, as there was another marketable version
of the domain name which I did not think of at the time. They eventually
got that one, too (I believe that this jerk bought up seven or eight variants
of my original domain name, including the .org!).
I guess I’m too good at coming up with domain names; I am a professional
writer, after all, and am good with words (I was offered a lot of money
for a few of them over the years). There are people out there who want
to capitalize on my branding. I wonder how many other cybersquatters out
there are monitoring my domains.
Frontier Pop is good a marketing name (it can’t be mistyped as Frontier
Society, yet it supports the Frontier Society branding. It’s also
simpler.), and well as an operating name (contains relevant keywords).
The result? I just beat the cybersquatters, and their investment into
all of those domain names is now worthless.
Frontier Pop will not be a doorway site to Frontier Society, however.
It will be a huge weekly online magazine and web site, with its own content,
and will be just as large, and relevant, as Frontier Society; both sites
will compliment each other (It will be just like the symbiotic relationship
between Advanced Model and Independent Modeling, as well as the other
two geographically-optimized modeling resource sites). Frontier Pop will
have its own brand, and will give serious competition to another pop culture
web site / fanzine in the Tampa Bay area. There is more, too- much more.
Don’t think that Frontier Pop will be just another one of my many
web site properties. Frontier Pop will become my most important web site!
It is going to become my main web site, and it will interlink with every
other site that I have. Frontier Pop will even be more important, to me,
than my business sites. What this means, too, is significant, Frontier
Pop is going to be huge, and it is going to be everywhere! Our competition
will not be able to keep up, although they, too, have a place. Our competition
is very good, too, and we will reference them at times. There is more
than enough room for both of us.
Frontier Pop is scheduled to be launched in the fall, although it could
launch earlier.
Ok, switching gears to other news, and then I have to go.
Gus has been trying to reach me since yesterday, but his timing is off.
When you call, Gus, I’m either sleeping, or working. I often cannot
talk to anyone for any length of time before 9PM (unless it is a client,
and in those cases, I keep the calls short). I do most of my work at night,
or on the weekends. I work a lot. As an example, I will not be able to
call a swimsuit model who I need to talk to, and set up a time to work
with her, until this weekend. I am that busy (I am also sorry that I didn't
get a chance to say goodbye at the film festival. My model friend was
hungry, and we left for dinner; we did not want to stay, because the film
festival was so bad that there was no point. I never bothered to review
it, or publish a review. It was her idea to leave, and we did).
Anyway, Gus, to answer your primary concern, no, I did not publish what
we discussed, and I won’t. I’m a person of my word. I know
a lot about Tampa indie film which I will never publish. A lot of people
talk to me, although I only get to publish a small fraction of what I
learn. If a source tells me that it is off the record, I keep it off the
record. Hope that helps.
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