CLICKHERDER

I had to re-generate my single English word dot-com database due to a weird problem with duplicates in the AGID list and other niggling problems. But now I know that the last domain on the Internet is registered: zyzzyvas.com is just a great big ball of fun, I don’t care what the dictionary says.

Filed by Joel at 7:49 am under Domainers
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My first domain name was Cahootspcs.com. My friends and I were trying to build some kind of Project Collaboration System which I wanted to call “Cahoots.” Unfortunately, cahoots.com was taken.

My friends all ridicule me for choosing the domain name “Cahootspcs.com.” So do my siblings. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say, “Hey, cool domain name, dude. Wish I’d have thought of it.” And that really hurts.

But I like to think there’s hope for me yet. I’m building a big list of available single-english-word dot coms. Also, I’m the guy that thought of ClickHerder.com. Yeah, that was me. Get it? Click-Herder? It’s an SEO/web marketing/link building/traffic gluttony kind of thing, where people click –ok, you get it.

Plus we get type-in traffic all the time. I think it’s because a lot of people have mice with buttons that stick. And when somebody visits them and asks to borrow their computer so they can use an online project collaboration system, the mouse button doesn’t work, and they just sorta shake the mouse back and forth and look confused, and then the computer’s owner speaks up and says “Click harder.” And the guest thinks his gracious host is talking about a website and starts to type it in. And this all happens in Wisconsin, where people flatten oot therr vowls, almost like Canadians do, and so the guest, who’s from New Orleans Parish, and has been living there since hurricane Katrina, thinks the host is saying “Clickherder” and the rest is history.

I love it when I find stuff like that in my Google Analytics.

Filed by Joel at 1:20 am under Domainers, Web Marketing
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For those of us not in the know the official defintion and first know use of the word…..

domainer n. A person who makes a living from domain name speculation or by purchasing popular domain names and filling the sites with advertising.

Earliest Citation:
1. Do you own your own domain?
-yeah 560 of them—im actually a domainer.
—sohail, “Other ways to make money,” geek/talk, March 26, 2001

This was found on Word Spy.

Filed by Mike at 3:16 pm under Domainers
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This was my thought the entire time I was reading the Business 2.0 article on domainers. What a cool name (do-main-ers)! What a cool job! But really I was thinking to myself, that seems like a pretty easy (and pointless) job. So I am in. I shall try to make a splash as domainer (along with my likeminded click herders). Will it last? Hard to say. Will we make any money? If we get lucky. It should at least give us something to work at to see if we can validate (our fundamental theory) that we are as smart as the rest of those guys (and gals - although I do not believe any women were discussed in the articles I read). Here’s to hoping so.

We are plotting our strategy…

• celebrities (what about law suits)
• foods
• appliances
• animals
• baby names
• latin insect names
• celebrity middle names

We are executing our programs….

• all single words ending with “ing” and rhyming with “dog”
• automatic registration of domains before anyone else thinks of them
• direct tie to google news to capture most popular one word phrases in news tht are not registered
• spyware that registers a domain and sets up a page the moment a user types it in so we never miss a type in opportunity

All of these have been done before, but not … well now I certainly can not publish that piece of information here just yet.

Soon we will launch a volley of new domains into the type-in traffic world. The domainers world. Our world.

Please be prepared to help me get paid.

Filed by Mike at 4:52 am under Domainers
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