CedarFever.com
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Cedar allergies hit Central Texas. My attempts to find remedies using direct navigation are largely fruitless.
Anyone who lives in Austin or San Antonio knows about “Cedar Fever”. Cedar Fever affects many people in this region, as pollen from cedar trees (a.k.a. juniper trees) explodes this time of year. Some people swear by natural remedies, such as spicy tortilla soup, but that doesn’t do it for true sufferers. My longtime remedy has been Allegra D combined with a nasal steroid. But apparently that wasn’t enough this year, and my doctor had to shoot me up with steroids (ala Roger Clemens) to get on top of it . I’m not the only one who suffers; there’s even a group in Austin that would like to see these trees cut down.
Today will be beautiful here with highs in the 70s. But the windows are shut as a write; I have to keep the pollen out. But I’m on a quest to use direct navigation to learn more about cedar allergies.
My first stop, naturally, is CedarFever.com. The domain was registered by another Austin resident in 1999. Unfortunately, he hasn’t done anything with it.
Next, I head on over to CedarAllergies.com. This domain is a parked page hosted by Parked.com and registered to a man in Garland, Texas. It has links to Allegra, allergy medication, pollen, and a few other related topics. This will be helpful.
OK, not much help so far. So how about Allergies.com? Surely some pharmaceutical company uses that domain.
Indeed, it appears that drug company GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) owns the domain. Too bad it doesn’t resolve to anything right now!
So much for direct navigation to find remedies for allergies. The only winner of these three is CedarAllergies.com, which provides ad links to allergy medications.
I’ll leave you on this New Years’ Eve with a fun factoid about cedar trees: there are male cedars and female cedars. Male cedars have cones, female cedars have berries. Seriously, I’m not making this up. It’s the male cedars that spread the allergenic pollen.
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As an Austinite, I can relate. I have allergies right now. As a matter of fact, I sneezed when I read your article.
Happy New Year!
We’ll do lunch soon to catch up.
“Parking” is actually a targeted search result often more relevant, and useful, than a generic Google/Yahoo/MSN search for the same topic. Domain parking deserves a better reputation.
Hmmm….but isn’t the real “issue” here…what the “industry” should do with an admitted “domainer-on-steriods,” Andrew?
Thanks for the great blog…
Happy New Year!
M. Menius, I agree with you, which is why I say “this will be helpful” in my post. Many times and ad is more targeted and valuable than an organic link. After all, if someone is paying you to click then they better be targeting you well!
Hi Andrew,
Sorry about the allergy suffering. That sucks. I did a little search around for you and found only two links on google for the phrase “cedar tree fever” — believe it or not.
Here’s one of them — naturalreflexes.com — seems to located in Austin. Good luck and have a Successful New Year!
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As a former Austinite who developed a massive allergic response to cedar in my third year living there, I feel your pain!! Benadryl worked very well but also made me lethargic. The prescription med’s were also good but I had to try a few before finding the best one for me. Check in with a good allergy doctor. The peak pollen season is mid-November to mid-January — the peak holiday/stress season! (By the way I think the “cedar” trees are actually juniper trees that were somehow “mis-labeled” as cedar, but I could be wrong…)
Steve, my lawyers told me to say,
“Any drugs I have taken were under the care of a licensed physician. If I did take steroids, it was only to treat a medical condition. And it had no affect on the performance of my domain portfolio.”
I’ve been working hard to get something up and running on the site. I thought it might be useful for the cedar sufferer’s community to have a forum where they (we) could discuss symptoms, doctors, remedies or whatever comes to mind. Stop by and add a post! I’m looking forward to trying something new. My Alegra-D is loosing it’s effectiveness after taking it for 10 yrs!
Allen, I just switched from Allegra-D to Clarinex-D because of the same problem. Zyrtec goes over the counter later this month!
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