I notice the auction for the expired domain, challengesworld.com at Godaddy.com
According to Godaddy.com the domain receives around 250,000 visits a month.
Wow
Compete.com is only showing a high of 13K visitors and only a little over 3K for last month
Alexa.com however shows the domain having a 3 month average ranking of 8,000.
Most of the traffic appears to be non-US based but for a current high bid of just over $1K its an interesting domain.
don’t know why, but I thought they would have gotten even more. With all those TV ads, they should get at least 1MM
Anytime a domain sounds too good to be true, it’s worth doing some diligence before you opening the wallet. Warning bells sound off when the Compete numbers are 1% of the claimed numbers, it’s not listed by Quantcast, only has a handful of links, and there are few references in Google. I realize it’s international according to Alexa but still there should be some kind of sign supporting those traffic numbers legitimately.
I don’t mean to imply Godaddy is being dishonest but there’s a difference between legitimate traffic and spam traffic – something that can only be determined with research.
this too shall pass lol
Isn’t this just another case of click factories at work? I just checked archive.org and this domain has no history.
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass 🙂
Could be that the old domain had a tool that other sites use to robo ping, like to update stock prices or oil consumption or something like that.
Believe None of What You Hear and Half of What You See.
-Benjamin Franklin
godaddy doesn’t lack of fake data(always 10+ time higher than the fact), also lots of shilling bids