TechCrunch.com wrote tonight about a site that is for sale which boasts 253,000 users, 4.9 Million Visitors, 17 Million Page Views and is only around 30 days old.
And if that doesn’t make you feel kind of sick to your stomach the webmaster is only 18 years old.
And did I tell you the site is a .Me?
Threewords.me is the site which is now for sale.
The domain was hand registered on December 20th, 2010.
Today is January 17th, 2011.
However it only took 10 days for someone else to register the domain name 3words.me (registered on December 30th) and to put up a VERY similar site to threewords.me.
3words.me also has some traffic with an Alexa Ranking of 3 Million in one month.
So although the young man could certainly teach me a LOT about marketing and generating traffic, this old guy could teach him something about domains protecting your brand and about defensive domain registrations.
So why would someone sell a site with such stellar stats in such a short time?
He says he doesn’t have time to continue to work on the site.
Here is the info from the site, including on how you can bid to own it:
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 Hi, I’m Mark Bao, the creator of threewords.me! I’m working on a lot of startup work at the moment, and don’t have the time to continue working on the site, so I’m trying to find someone that’s interested in continuing it. |
 This is a five-day auction and will end on Friday, January 21, 2011 at 11:59pm Eastern time. auction ends in 4 days, 0 hours, 54 minutes, and 20 seconds |
 Rails 3, MySQL database. Images stored on, and served from Amazon S3. Currently hosted on Duostack (Ruby/Node platform). Sale includes data, domain, brand. |
He’s trying to cash in before the bubble bursts.
That’s great news for the dot com which is getting a storm of traffic on Sedo 😀
I dont know if anyone has bothered to check out the site but there seems to be a glitch.
It seems to reload pages over and over, or at least it did that to me.
I wonder if that has anything to do with the possible amount of hits?
I am just curious.
Cheers
It’s a pretty cool, simple idea actually. Clearly has viral marketing value, at least within Facebook.
@ Slate
WTF is with you … EVERY thing IS A QUESTION !!!!
Can you explain this, i dont understand that, why is it doing that,
I can explain you in 3 words
i dont understand i dont understand i dont understand i dont understand i dont understand i dont understand i dont understand.
Im just curious? you see i realy dont get it,
i mean your not creepy in a manipulative are you?
Can you explain?? why are you that way?
i just dont understand, i am willing to learn ?????
Cheers
Its interesting the press coverage this one month old site has gotten which according to the references on the site include CNN and Mashable in addition to TechCrunch
but the site owner doesn’t say how much money he wants for this site
“Oh Yeah Its A .Me”
.Me .Mobi .Tel .Co
the real BIG business of the domaining industry will be the .Mail TLD if and when it will be allowed
It’s a successful facebook app.
Huge burst of interest, then eventually, no one cares. Unless I was running a click arb scheme or tasked with marketing the next Miley Cyrus album, I wouldn’t pay .03 per for that traffic.
(add to above for clarity)
It’s a standalone app in its own right, but I’d bet a huge-huge-huge portion of its traffic originates from random FB and Myspace wall posts. There is no filtering value whatsoever in stuff like that and if it gets ‘too popular’, you can find yourself footing the bill for something that doesn’t give much back.
Forget the gazillions of visitors and users. Can it be monetized, and even then, if its not the next Farmville, its just another app that is going to annoy the heck out of everyone and disappear off the planet.
Try and sell me an app that has been live for more than a year and still going strong, I might consider opening my wallet.
Starbucks didnt register their new size “trenta” either. In this day and age people are going to automatically try .com, .net, etc… expecting Starbucks at some point. The typical extensions for trenta were registered prior to today, none by Starbucks and someone even registered trenta.co today. Again, not Starbucks.
Thats poor planning if you ask me. As time fades, so too will the traffic probably but why not capitalize on a very inexpensive investment for a few weeks. Who knows, maybe run a few TV spots with trenta.co or whichever – to see who’s watching and interested.. heh, the .me is still available. Amazing.
How do you get an Alexa ranking in 1 month when they are only updated quarterly?
Advertising
Alexa ranking are shown for weeks, months and quarters