oh jeeze!

I guess I stopped getting the updates to my in box, didn't realize so many of you had replied. Thanks for the encouragement folks!

So my first newbie questions is: where are the best places to register domain names? Does it matter? Is there anything else to consider here? And if someone has picked up a name I want but is doing nothing with it ... how do I get my hands on it?

My second newbie question is: I see a lot of other newbies get the advice of starting a blog before launching a pay site to generate traffic. And wordpress over and over is the recommended software. What should the content of the blog be? How the site build is going? A sex life journal? Random info about my niche gathered from the internet? I guess this is a huge question and given my target audience it might not be an easy one to reply to but I appreciate any thoughts.

Many, many thanks!,
Ruby