Is type-in dying or already dead?

[Duckinla]

Inconclusive guesswork? C'mon now. What could be more conclusive than this:

Few days ago, I was very astonished to read that a domainer having 120 very short dot com parked was just earning 31 cents/months.
What better proof that type-in is already dead?

What better proof do we really need. Could the actual names of the domains really be that important?

 

[typist]

LOL, you caught me there...I was simply trying to hide the factual evidence...

 

[Bill Roy]

A question here.

Is the type-in traffic producing more income than it was a year ago, is it the same, or lower?

 

[DomainingCom]

When I look how much I spent buying 2 words generic dot coms and the income they produce I think I will need 100 years to simply recover my money.

If nobody show me a proof I can only conclude this search type in is simply a BIG SCAM to attract new domainers that like me will spend a fortune for no return.

Well, when I say no return I am lying because like everyone here I will be also lying and feeding the search type in buzz to atrract new domainers to try to sell them my domains at the higher price.

Look likes the domaining game is for new players:

I have been abused, it's my turn to abuse the next ones painting them an extraordinary world where all is easy incomes!

By the way it's mainly what is happening, domainers buying domains of other domainers that after resell to other domainers, ...

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[Ed30]

When I look how much I spent buying 2 words generic dot coms and the income they produce I think I will need 100 years to simply recover my money.

Can you give an example?

 

[DomainingCom]

Domains paid thousands to dozen of thousands generating less than 50 cents monthly.

residentialcontractors.com
advertisingnetwork.com
getadvertised.com
marketingconsultant.com
marketingservice.com

Like these I have a good collection. And I will say +40% simply generate 0 monthly.

So dont talk me that search type in exist other than for very popular single word generics.

 

[colombani]

Domains paid thousands to dozen of thousands generating less than 50 cents monthly.
marketingservice.com

How much unique visitors/month for it ?

 

[DomainingCom]

I do not know, I don't have any counter in my parked pages.
The only I see is the SEDO incomes that makes me laugh...

 

[D'same]

As a person teaching basic computer skills for the past couple years to the elderly, young, employed and unemployed, I can tell you that type-in error occur only about once in every 13 week course...per person and they never ever repeat it....(presuming that by type in you mean...typing the search term or word in the address bar).

With the various toolbars namely Google and Yahoo now seen frequently on browsers, they get that traffic...IMHO, moreso than people launching the search engine and typing in the search term (s).

However, they (students) always repeat errors such as not placing the dot between web address eg. (wwwhotmail.com) or they regularly mixes up the letters I and L eg. (www.hotmall.com).

 

[bdss]

good observation D'same, a constructive feedback.

coming back to the topic

we also need to understand that the percentage of new users geting online to the percentage of new users doing type-ins is reducing or you can say the shelf life is reducing . (atleast thats my opinion)

due to the internet growth in developed/devloping contries the no. of users joing internet is far more than before. But at the same time the current tools and resources offered make them move out off type-in faster than what a new user 3-4 yrs back would have done.

most of the browsers now a days come with a SE field installed. so new users quickly start using this more than typing in the browser.
furthermore the roll out of new products/technologies is being done almost simultaneously across the world. Ex IE 7 ...hence new users are catching up fast and being educated faster than done few years ago, therefore getting out of the type-in genre faster. The new users coming onto the internet will have the same behavorial pattern to that of an old user in may be 1 yr of joining the net, where as pre 2000 it would have been 5 years.





I dont know about revenues but the proportion of new users joining the internet to the new users doing type in is def going down.

 

[Ed30]

I dont know about revenues but the proportion of new users joining the internet to the new users doing type in is def going down.

Can you let me know where you found this info please. Thanks.

 

[David G]

...type in only exist for very short popular keywords and dot com. And these type in are seriously decreasing...

Strongly disagree with that. I also believe typein percentages are increasing as time goes by.

I get typeins for 2, 3, even 4 word domains and phrases. The longer it is the more highly targeted it tends to be and I think the public also knows that. Also have dot-org's which get regular typeins so it is not only com.

 

[Ed30]

Strongly disagree with that. I also believe typein percentages are increasing as time goes by.

I get typeins for 2, 3, even 4 word domains and phrases. The longer it is the more highly targeted it tends to be and I think the public also knows that. Also have dot-org's which get regular typeins so it is not only com.

Exactly - I have 6 word .coms and 3 word .orgs that get regular typeins.

 

[Biggie]

Domains paid thousands to dozen of thousands generating less than 50 cents monthly.

residentialcontractors.com
advertisingnetwork.com
getadvertised.com
marketingconsultant.com
marketingservice.com

Like these I have a good collection. And I will say +40% simply generate 0 monthly.

So dont talk me that search type in exist other than for very popular single word generics.

Hi

I didn't pay thousands but by comparision here are a few what I would consider generic type-in traffic. These are from sedo.

greenfriendly com 27 3 11.11% $0.54 $1.61

englewood org 80 2 2.50% $0.57 $1.15

chicagoescort com 59 32 54.24% $0.24 $7.68

Have others in top tlds and cctlds/gtlds too.

Your domains are very generic and imo are best suited for development as portals and subdomains, especially "residentialcontractors.com".

This should be used for "local/regional" areas like 'chicago.residentialcontractors.com' / 'lasvegas.residentialcontractors.com' and so on.


and in my house, I'm considered a "Big Boy'' ...so there it is!!

 

[Tia Wood]

So do not tell me the increasing usage of these search toolbars did not hurt the type in behaviour. Its' logical!

I think your problem is that you believe everyone else searches like you and they do not. Nor do other people use the same browser as you. Basing your conclusions off a handful examples without taking a good, long look at whats going on in the rest of the world is highly fallacious.

 

[DomainingCom]

Ed30,

I think you are pushing too much:
6 words type in now...
Soon someone will come with a dot mobi of 8 words with hyphens claiming it's a type in!
That makes no sense.
Now I do not blame you, nor I think you are lying, I simply think you are assimilating visits without referals as type ins.


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Meganerd,

The norm is using a search engine to search not type in.
Do not inverse the comon sense.

But OK, let's say some people type in directly a "keyword dot com" to search info about "keyword".
How many time do you think they will continue acting this way when half of the time they will get a DNS error (site does not exist) and the other half a parked page showing sponsored links and rarely a site about "keyword".
1 time, 2, 3 times, ... let say they are persistants ... 10 times.
But after they will understand they will not find anything searching this way, or I am sorry they are pure idiots, and be an idiot is not the norm.

Last thing, if like some people claim here, search type in is the way internet newbies search:
Do you really think internet newbies know about extensions?
Except the dot com do you think they are going to type in keyword.us or keyword.net ... ?

I continue saying that it makes no sense, except for very popular single generic and in the dot com.


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Biggedon,


You makes me smile saying you are considered a "Big boy" at home ... I must admit that's probably TRUE!

How do you explain that domains based in keywords really much more popular then the ones you give me are not type in or in a so unsignificant level.
Do you agree with that earn few cents or few dollars monthly with generic domains that costed dozen of thousands make no sense.
You need a full century to amortize your investment.
Because this is the prices people are selling today these generic domains having such metrics.

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[bdss]

Can you let me know where you found this info please. Thanks.

Ed30 as I said in my post thats my assumption.
I do not have stats to prove that my assumption is correct.
My assumption is more of logical reasoniong rather than statistics. But if someone disagrees with this logic I would definetly appreciate if they could let me into their thoughts and reasoning.

 

[Tia Wood]

Meganerd,

The norm is using a search engine to search not type in.
Do not inverse the comon sense.

But OK, let's say some people type in directly a "keyword dot com" to search info about "keyword".
How many time do you think they will continue acting this way when half of the time they will get a DNS error (site does not exist) and the other half a parked page showing sponsored links and rarely a site about "keyword"......

I'm not basing this on my personal opinion. It's a fact that companies are starting to recognize the value of type-ins. Rick Schwartz does a great job at explaining why.

 

[Biggie]

How do you explain that domains based in keywords really much more popular then the ones you give me are not type in or in a so unsignificant level.
Do you agree with that earn few cents or few dollars monthly with generic domains that costed dozen of thousands make no sense.
You need a full century to amortize your investment.
Because this is the prices people are selling today these generic domains having such metrics.

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sorry, but as this conversation continues, I see no logic in your arguments cybertonic


seems like just a lot of random replies to keep the thread going with no point to solve.


imo....

 

[DomainingCom]

Biggedon,

Are you joking?

Check again all the points and you will see what I am saying is not absurd.
Prove me which point is not logical from the 4 or 5 I outlined.
What will be absurd is repeat each one again.

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Meganerd,

What Rick was talking in his blog was about TOP Premium domains;
Those ones based in single word of very high search popularity.
I never said these terms does not produce search type in (check above), at the inverse I said they are the EXCEPTION.

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What I want is the big boys confirm and the big boys are not Biggedon, NOT ME, none that responded here until now (without want to be rude) that:

search type in volume ~ term search popularity * 0.0001%

And this is the reason why only extremely popular terms in the dot com generate a significant search type in.

All the others domains produce peanuts as search type in, plus the volume is decreasing due to the points I outlined.


Now if that's not true, prove the inverse with SIGNIFICANT DATA.



P.S: Big boys = parking service, company or individual with dozen thousands of domains.

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