Ten Billion visitors to Domain Sponsors landing page from January 1- November 7, 2010.
That is a TON of traffic.
So next time someone questions whether people really type domain names into the address bar of their browser, send them to the Domain Sponsor counter and then remind them that DS is just one of many parking companies and combined with the fact that many domainers have their own Google or Yahoo feed that number represents just a fraction of total domain traffic.
The amount of traffic that domainers control is truly staggering.
If domainers got just $.10 a visitor to a landing page they would have generated One billion dollars so far this year, just from Domain Sponsor.
Unfortunately I have been averaging just 1.5 cents per visitor for my DomainSponsor traffic.
Something to think about on a sleepy Sunday when we all in the US “fall back” an hour.
I wonder how much is bot traffic.
Mike,
If anyone believes that DS (i.e. BS) “counter” stat, I have salt from Mars I am willing to sell them 🙂
Why does Oversee use the Octane360 platform to monetize most of their geo names?
-Marshall
wow, that counter is moving almost as fast as the usdebtclock.o r g…eeek
openDNS gets about 20 to 25 Billion per DAY…
://system.opendns.com/
The “unique” term makes these stats aburd!
I don’t see how these are Unique Visitors in the search of one visit per IP address per 24 hours.
Roughly I think that means they get about 30,000,000 UV per day… PER DAY.
Thirty million people a day visit a DS site? BS.
Based on our numbers on my side, I could possibly see those numbers being somewhat close. But everybody calculates number differently. Especially unique visitors.
probably they’re page views
“I have been averaging just 1.5 cents per visitor for my DomainSponsor traffic.”
and how many monthly visits?
There aren’t 10 billion unique computers with unique IP addresses in the entire world… is this article supposed to be comical or …?
TLD
This article is reporting on what domainsponsor is reporting on their site.
Its guess you could say that those numbers
are the BOT-tom line 🙂
however, also ONE billion visits is a very good result… 🙂
It would be interesting for others to state what they get per average within the same time frame. Few thosand great names have earn me just average 1.7 cents from Fabulous. Do they really make 25% of the total earnings, or whatever % they say the pay?
Thier “slice of the Pie” can’t be 10 billion visitors 🙂
If you could figure out how to sell stuff to robots you would be rich!
.Com baby and type inn traffic
PRICELESS!
i believe it was 10 billions eunuchs… and most of them came from china.
And DS sure pay peanuts to all domainers and I can tell that despite DS claiming that they are now earning more. They keep lowering payments to domainers all the time.
DS is now just a low grade parking service that does not give a shit to domainers who park their domains with them.
I am moving our portfolio out of DS after staying with them for 5 years.
Can not trust them any more.
Parked/sedo/BigJumbo all seem to be getting much much better while DS performance keeps going in to the drain.
Bye Bye DS …… had enough of you guys!
If you don’t care about us, we don’t then give a shit about you.
My earnings are at all time low….and every month they get even lower 🙁
Yes the comment about bots is relevant considering the drop off in traffic at sedo yet the parking clicks have gone up , so just a bit of hope for parking i suggest
There are only 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses and 6.7 billion humans, so the “unique” claim is a bit far-fetched.
LOL, you guys so doubtful and sounding a bit filled with jealousy.
Those numbers sound exactly right. DomainSponsor probably counts unique visitors not through a javascript to get that number. Most stat companies and parking companies count uniques on a daily basis and then take a sum at the end of a month or year.
Furthermore, many stat companies also count uniques as a combination of ip address and user agent. I have not seen many count solely based on ip address as you’d be largely under counting the number of real visitors that visit a site.
30 million uniques per day sounds exactly right for the size of DS. The real number is probably around 10-15 million per day(once filtered via JS). They have over 2.1 million domain currently resolving to their name servers in the GTLD zone alone. That is a lot. They are the biggest parking company out of all parking companies. 600k domains are their own, the rest are third party.
They are bigger than Skenzo.
They are bigger than Sedo (1.8 million resolving GTLD)
They are bigger than Parked (580k resolving GTLD)
They are bigger than any parking company.
Above has over 200 million unique visitors per month. DS has over 300 million uniques as mentioned on their new technology blog.
As far as performance goes. That is hard to say. There’s a lot of places that do better than DS.
Also, Michael Berken’s 1.5 cent calculation is just about perfect. 1.5 cents * 30 million uniques per day * 365 days a year = approx $165million. Actually, that is a bit less than I think they earn. I believe they may be grossing between $200-$400 million annually at this point.
Thanks Chris Beach to give the numbers I had in mind when I said “the statement is absurd” with the “unique” term.
Probably the good term is simply “visits”.
They should update “YTD Unique Visits” in the DomainSponsor.com homepage by “YTD Visits” or the numbers that should celebrate their success will be perceived as a lie by anybody having a brain (virtualy, any human).
Most domainers don’t optimize their names for search. Trafficz and Parked both allow optimization. I optimize mine and then submit to seo. It goes from pennies to dollars a month. Here is the key, put an original 4 paragraph article about the subject of the name in the memo section.
It works… don’t believe it, keep making pennies.
This is not true! What are you counting EVERY image on the page loading up??? THIS IS NOT how you count visitors! Visitors are based on UNIQUE Visitors to a website and NOT 1000 hits couuting up for each visitor!! They are ranked 10776 on earth! So tell the truth here and not your BS!
I don’t think you’re intentionally misleading people, I think you just don’t know.
the simple term should have been VISIT’s surely.
openDNS gets about 20 to 25 Billion (queries) per DAY…
://system.opendns.com/
the new DNS coming SOON real soon now will incorporate the NEW nano-payment systems so DNS queries and “uniques” will be tied to virtual coins passing back and forth…
make money while you sleep…
UPDATE
The counter has been update to state:
Year to date visitors rather than unique year to date visitors.
The counter is now up to over 11 billion