Well unless your have been living under the proverbial rock you have no doubt have heard, read or seen stories on the “Pink Slime” contained in ground beef in the last month or so.
I have seen a lot of stories on the national news, and the internet is buzzing about the topic.
WSJ.com is reporting that the term pink slime was mentioned almost 100,000 times on Twitter alone last month.
We had to take notice that a long time domainer, Gregg Ostrick took note and registered this domain pinkslime.com, way back in 2007.
Yes many years before the topic was on the news every night, a domainer registered the exact match domain.
Its not unusual for domainers to be be years ahead of the news or hot new products.
Its actually amazes me how many times I look up a .com registration for something I just heard about that’s either a new product or newstory to find a domainer having registered it years ago.
The domain name PinkSlime.com not surprisingly is getting traffic and has an Alexa rank of 1.9 million.
Congrats to the domainers that continuous are ahead of the news.
Yes. But how much is it worth?
Gary
I’m sure a WHOLE lot more than he spend to register it
You see MHB, one year for today, you will be writing about me why I reg “BullS” as it will be the talk of the town.
I’m sure we’ll soon see the domainers from the 3D thread here posting all the “slime” names they’ve regged.
Great for Gregg……he deserve the praise for his foresight.
@ MHB
Btw, yesterday I was checking for EyeglassComputing.com and I noticed that you had just registered it. So congrats my friend, I really like this term and it has potential to be big as augmented reality stuff makes headway in next few years.
I was able to grab EyeComputing.com and few others related to this subject of eyeglasses replacing computers and cell phones in next few years.
Like you said, a domainer always takes bets on future…..sometimes it pays and sometimes it doesn’t!
We will see……
RK
Wow you must be psychic
That is king of what tomorrow’s story is about.
Already written and scheduled for the AM
MHB lol
Are you serious?
I have a total of 13 domains related to this whole emerging field.
Had 2 from few months ago and got 11 yesterday.
I hope I didn’t just waste my time and money.
But then again, it won’t be the first time I did it 🙂
MHB – I think it’s a stretch to imply that he had associated “pink slime” with “ground beef” back in 2007.
More than likely, he was probably conceptualizing the “slime” stuff you buy at a toystore, but in a color pink.
All the popular colors are already registered:
REDSLIME.COM
ORANGESLIME.COM
BLUESLIME.COM
GREENSLIME.COM
Screenshots.com to the rescue: it seems that in 2007 the domain dropped. Before that, it was the web site for a retro night club in Australia, named ‘The Pink Slime’.
Which means, that Gregg Ostrick registered it for its prior traffic qualities, unrelated to the McDonald’s junk.
Rk
Certainly not telling anyone to register any pink slime domains.
Not sure how “deep” the term goes
Also, surprisingly, the domain was first registered in 2000 according to DomainTools. While there is a WHOIS record from 2001, there is none until 2007.
Gonna grab
PinkSlimeCloud.com before it’s too late!
I think I would prefer GreenSlime.com
I know I’ve made it when I have some random impersonating me on Mike’s blog on a Friday night. Kinda funny but a bit sad, too 🙂
What colour slime was used in Ghostbusters ?
You guys don’t know how to pick domains.
Clearly the value proposition is 1-800-3DPinkSlime.mobi
Who has it on Weebly or Wobbly or WeBlow… Or whatever that idiotic thing was.
wow, can’t imagine i’m the only one here keeping up w/ DNJournal, … surprised none of you have mentioned the fact that PinkSlime.com was reported sold last week for $6,500. Congrats to Gregg on the sale
Yea but you need something brandable to get the big money….www.pinkslime360.com
Stories of E-Commerce
“When I am searching for things like ‘pink slime’ by typing it in the box, I always end up clicking on a interesting link and then buying something online.” – Joe