And moving from one hosting to another (dreamhost, imountain, mediatemple, synco and others), i found a .org domain to be very useful. First of all because the .ro domain management system sucks. Second, because it fails and it’s hard to update your nameservers when the system is so slow and it’s a pain in the ass when you try to move 20 or 30 blogs from one server to another.

So here’s how i work: i told everybody i host to set the same NameServers and now, when i move to another host, i just change the IPs from bule.org’s registrar for the NameServers. No need to change the NS for every domain name. No need to remember the passwords for every .ro domain or keep it in the mail.

I read all the humorous posts about me quitting my main blog and only source of income to do nothing. Most of them were from people too afraid to take chances and do something else or something more. It’s hard to understand you are willing to leave a secure ground to dive into the unknown. It’s even harder to understand why quit when you are on top and have been so since 2005. And instead of asking or shutting up, most of them prefer to say stupid things.

The good news: two days ago found the idea i wanted, some people offered to back me up, others sent good thoughts and Ursus sent beer.

Some months ago, a friend asked me what did i think about setting up a small office in Brasov, the city i currently live. He was an online company manager wanting to escape the large costs of having to pay large salaries and rents to employees. And i remembered how Sergiu Biris, the CEO of Trilulilu (local YouTube), did not want to move to Bucharest, where the big money is, choosing instead to rent an apartment and went there 2 or 3 times a month. He ended up hiring 3 sales people there and kept headquarters in Cluj, Romania’s second biggest city.

Brasov is a great city for a small company not needing  every employee present in Bucharest. It has only 10% of the Bucharest population, cool summers, cheap rents (i am paying 200€ less for a 1 bedroom house with 300 sq. of yard), short distances (the city can be crossed from one end to another in 15-20 minutes).

But the most attractive part of the city is the short distance from work to home. People from Bucharest spend at least one hour in traffic, be that public transport or personal car. In Brasov i spend one tank of gas per month doing that, while the average Bucharest worker spends at least two.

And did i mention it has a pretty big university?

Are there any decent choices? (VLCPlayer was good to me, but it’s gone from AppStore).

So, here are some of them:

• Expat News. While i was living in Berlin i read TheLocal, which is a international network of local news sites, written in English. It’s a very good site to have, because the expats living in Romania are usually in middle or upper management, so they have money.
• Financial News. The current situation is not pretty and a have an example for it: some time ago, a shareholder of one of the biggest football clubs in Romania got married to a young girl. News flew from site to site, what dress will she wear, what car will they be driving, what champagne will they serve. These news flew from site to site, reaching financial news site, as i tend to avoid gossip and general news sites. But not an article was written on these sites from a business perspective. I wanted to know how much is he worth, how much will they spend in this economy, how me made his money and more. You know, news written from a businessman perspective – for a business site. So this is the problem. There are no good financial journalists and no good news sites.
• Educational Sites. Jessica Alba and that other skinny blond chick are launching children sites, because they are mothers and they are a voice good to be the site’s spokesperson. Mihaela Rădulescu, one of the few true showbiz stars we have, launched a clothing line for kids. The market was wide open in 2006, when we (me and a coleague working for Mediafax Internet Group) came up with the idea for boboci.ro as an educational site. It still is. Kids are online, but for how long can the play online games?
• Educational iOS Apps. I had an iPad lying around the house and my nephews came to visit. They are Angry Birds champions on their mother’s iPhone. They fell in love with it. And from speaking with their mother and other parents, there are no children games for these gadgets.

There are many niches uncovered and un-invented. All it takes is money and patience.