legal After Almost 8 Years Twitter.com Finally Files UDRP To Get Typo Domain Twiiter.com

[News]

I have no idea why, but it took Twitter.com almost 8 years to file a UDRP over a very popular misspelling of its domain name.

The domain since at least 2011 according to Screenshots went to a site that had the same colors and feel of Twitter but offered users “prizes” for clicking on certain links or providing information.

According to Alexa the domain has a worldwide ranking of 273,000 meaning that someone has been making a lot of money off of this domain for a very long time.

Full Article: http://www.thedomains.com/2015/03/0...ly-files-udrp-to-get-typo-domain-twiiter-com/

 

[DomainGist]

"According to Alexa the domain has a worldwide ranking of 273,000 meaning that someone has been making a lot of money off of this domain for a very long time"

Eh?

Alexa rank doesn't in any way correlate with earnings. I've had a site which was in the top 60,000 Alexa which used to make me not much more than $50 per month, due to the low quality traffic.

And I've had a site which saw just 10 or 15 visitors per day which once made me about $1000 a month., due to it being a high value niche.

 

[Hypersot]

"According to Alexa the domain has a worldwide ranking of 273,000 meaning that someone has been making a lot of money off of this domain for a very long time"

Eh?

Alexa rank doesn't in any way correlate with earnings. I've had a site which was in the top 60,000 Alexa which used to make me not much more than $50 per month, due to the low quality traffic.

And I've had a site which saw just 10 or 15 visitors per day which once made me about $1000 a month., due to it being a high value niche.

That's not exactly true

For 'legitimate' sites , ie. sites that we expect to have some kind of traffic like the twitter misspell in this case, alexa does have some truth in the metrics they show. 273k for the twitter misspell does look about right imo.

Your 60k domain was probably a fake alexa rank due to some old redirection I guess(?)

Metrics from various tools are correct as long as we know how to read them

 

[DomainGist]

I just said that Alexa rank has no correlation with EARNINGS.

How is what you have just said relevant to that? Alexa doesn't measure earnings.

As for my "60k domain was probably fake Alexa rank", how patronising. It was a website, not a domain, it had 500+ contributing authors and 12000+ visits per day!

Do you realise that Alexa stats are meaningless? It only counts visits to the domain from people with an Alexa toolbar installed.

The only people with an Alexa toolbar installed are people involved in online marketing in some capacity.

Therefore an SEO blog could have an Alexa rank of 50000, because every visitor has the toolbar installed, whilst a gardening blog could have an Alexa rank of 5 million with more visitors.

 

[iowadawg]

ANd today?
WHo cares about alexa????
Except for new webbies, webbies wanting to sell a crap domain or site, or links.

But twitter does eventually go after any site that has their mark.

 

[jiashua]

typos domains get some 1-5 % traffic just imagine