Exile From the Herd

About Mark Jeftovic

I live in Toronto, Canada with my wife and daughter, I'm the founder and president of easyDNS.com - the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a card-carrying Libertarian and former Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).

In my copious spare time I blog here about doing business on the internet and play guitar in The Parkdale Hookers, an indie power-pop group who releases all of our music under a creative commons license.

I can be emailed at markjr@myprivacy.ca (requires verification)

Subscribe to Under the Radar

Quicksearch

Syndicate This Blog

RSS 0.91 feed

RSS 1.0 feed

RSS 2.0 feed

ATOM 0.3 feed

ATOM 1.0 feed

RSS 2.0 Comments

Blog Administration

Open login screen

Tuesday, April 24. 2007

OpenDNS' address bar labels is a signpost to the type-in domainers

Predictably, most of the reaction to my Domain Aftermarket Due for an 'Asset Repricing' post awhile back was disgruntled and hostile. The domainer traffic king Rick Schwartz called it "One of the worst and most inacurate[sic] articles on domains I have ever read." and on the various forums I was called a total idiot and worse.

Since I'm talking about it, I should mention that I did get some of the numbers in the article wrong, like way off wrong. Drugs.com sold for 800K, not 4M and Yun Yi's Ultsearch portfolio was bought by Marchex for 165 Million, not 65. Next time I shall endevour to google the numbers before reciting them.

Be that as it may, the numbers may be wrong, the premise isn't. And I saw some pretty flimsy arguments why type-in traffic will increase in the future, not decline.

Continue reading "OpenDNS' address bar labels is a signpost to the type-in domainers"

Posted by Mark Jeftovic in Tech Wreck 2.0 at 11:31 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)