This is a public service announcement. June 22, 2008
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Song lyrics websites, something to sing about… May 31, 2008
Posted by unemployedalcoholic in Domains, Society, music, popular culture.Tags: Add new tag, Domains, lyrics, music, songs, websites
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Another random thought for the weekend. I often like to look up song lyrics. For some reason, I can never settle for bookmarking one specific lyrics website and going there for every song I look up the lyrics for. Now, I think over the past year or so, I’ve ran into DOZENS of DIFFERENT websites that basically offer the same thing (song lyrics). Of course, it is difficult to differentiate this product offering… They’re all based on a similar concept, some kind of a cute design that’s simple to navigate, several of categories, and tons of advertisements. Nevertheless, all of these lyrics sites I’ve come across seem to rank very highly in Alexa, almost every one I hit happens to be in the top 100k.
The lessons of this phenomenon as I see them:
1) Content is indeed king, even if the content is redundant, and has been reproduced multiple times with similar content presentations. Just make sure that the content is well-organized, in demand, and somewhat useful. A shitton of interlinked HTML pages will do… HMM! Ideally, this will not remain the case forever, someone is bound to start cleaning up the internet of this mess sooner or later. On second thought, perhaps the word “WEB” by definition implies a messy concept…
2) Search engine traffic is hot. Type-ins? I don’t think so… Doubtful that people previously unfamiliar with the resource would type in “LyricsFreak.Com” in the address bar, yet this is a site comes close to having top 1k Alexa rank. Some people go for quantity with domain names, some go for quality. Sometimes, just having a dot com that makes sense with tons of sought-after information is enough for a guy to live on…
More on the value of generic domain names. April 9, 2008
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By now, my readers must have realized that my real addiction is domain names, not alcohol. One of my favorite activities is scouring the web for examples of how different people utilize their domain names, different development and monetization strategies and such… Fresh development ideas drive this business and create opportunities for old domain magnates and new industry entrants alike, and in general, I can never get enough. My most recent discovery is ElectronicMusic.com
Overall, it is a fairly simple website. I’d say that close to 70% of the total content area is dedicated to banners, google ads, and sponsored links. The only source of content is an infrequently updated news posting system, sort of like a blog, though more archaic (anyone remember NewsPro of the olden days?). It is not even a feed or an aggregator. However, this website is still very highly ranked in Alexa, and probably brings in a revenue stream that pays for its yearly renewal fees many times over.
This is a prime example of the value of a well-chosen, generic name. Clearly, such a generic, category-defining, commercial domain deserves much more development than it has gotten so far, but the very fact that it is still ranked within the top 1 million or so sites on Alexa is testament to the huge potential of ths property.
There is huge untapped value in names such as this one, and huge props to the registrant for scooping it up way back in 1996, and good luck with continued development.
