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Interesting situation... Any advice for typo-type domain?

by bubee
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Here is something I stumbled on today...

I have a "name.com" like domain name I registered in 1996. It was huge source of spam when we hosted the domain name, as many folks were setting their SMTP server with our domain name, as it is often used as an example of a domain name, and people would follow SMTP setup instructions literally. I took it down for all these years because of the spam complaints.

Today, I through together a quick wordpress site on ec2, I pointed the domain name to it, and instrumented it with google analytics/wordpress analytics plugin just for fun.

While I have only had it up and running for a few hours, the stats indicate that it would be doing a estimated 25 million page views if it runs at current traffic.

Most of this seems to be bot activity, but even real traffic is fairly impressive.

Any ideas on how I should monetize this for the short and long term?
#advice #domain #interesting #situation #typotype
  • Profile picture of the author John Alves
    It is difficult to say without knowing the domain name because I don't know the theme. However, a short term way would be to redirect the traffic through adf.ly. You will be able to make some money with that. You could also redirect the traffic to a YouTube video and do some preselling on a product that is related to the domain name. You could also put a content locker on the site or redirect the traffic to email submits.
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    • Profile picture of the author bubee
      Thanks John!

      I will look into adf.ly and see what I can do.
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  • Profile picture of the author asr_guy
    I'm curious how it turned out - so what did you end up doing?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    Maybe redirect to a video sales letter that would appeal to that demographic?

    Split test a few different things and see what works?

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  • Profile picture of the author Scotty Bee
    Re-direct to an optin page and at least build a list you can re-monetize
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