I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
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Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#2Congrats to him! Just playing devil's advocate: what we see here is correlation, not necessarily causation. In other words, we don't know how many visitors who visited the domain with the typo would have realized quickly and then used Google and convert either way.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#3TLDR: yes, people miss spell names.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#4A controversial $35k spending also gives you a good ad spot on HN. Well done sir.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#5Congrats to him! Just playing devil's advocate: what we see here is correlation, not necessarily causation. In other words, we don't know how many visitors who visited the domain with the typo would have realized quickly and then used Google and convert either way.
Yeah, but if I were a competitor, I could have taken those visitors to my website and he would have lost all of that traffic.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#6Brilliantly, they're probably profiting further from this analysis of their "typo domain" investment.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#7I hate to admit that I spent an absurd amount of time (around 6-7 minutes) trying to figure out the typo of the word "testimonial" before reading the article.
The typo isn't a typo rather than a wrong/another TLD. OP's website used ".to" TLD and they bought an ".io" TLD.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#8The only problem with paying $35k for a domain is that you're supporting domain squatters, and giving them seed money to squat more domains. I don't think I'd want to do that, but it's not my money.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#9The only problem with paying $35k for a domain is that you're supporting domain squatters, and giving them seed money to squat more domains. I don't think I'd want to do that, but it's not my money.
Some domain registries sell "desirable" domains for higher prices directly. Not sure that is better but at least the money goes to the people actually running the infrastructure.
Re: I spent $35,000 on a “typo domain” 8 months ago. Is it a good investment?
#1035k for io domain seems very expensive.
Very surprising that it got that much type in traffic.
I could see it being worth it for .com (famously bodybuilding.com cost 35k a long long time ago)
Why would people be going to .io instead of say .info, .biz, .dev, .business , .photo, .org, etc?
When was the last time you typed in non .com, org, .net domain by hand?