Movie Domains, what's the type-in traffic like?

[WebbyMedia]

I've noticed that many upcoming movies still have domains that follow this format still unregged:

movienamemovie.com
or
movienamethemovie.com

For example, WarOfTheWorldsMovie.com is registered by the movie studio, but many similar domains with the 'movie' addition at the end still are unregged.

Generally, the studio has taken:
moviename.com

if it was available.

So does anyone have any experience with movienamemovie.com domains? I know that any potential traffic will only be short-lived -- for the time the movie is out -- but are those domains worth the 8.95?

Do you think that they would develop natural type-in traffic when the movie gets released?

 

[monaco]

I'd say no. I for one have never gone to a movie's website directly...I always get there via google. Nobody remembers them anyway since they vary so greatly. Now what they should do is have a movie TLD. That way, you would always know that waroftheworlds.movie would belong to the WOTW movie site, as the TLD would be restricted to use by the studios. In this case, they probably would get inbound traffic like you're thinking of.

 

[Sam]

Well IceAge2.net has gotten 1 unique visitors for the whole week.. Great Traffic!

 

[IAmAllanShore]

It's a .net , type-in traffic will be greatly lacking

As far as "the movie" goes, here's the overtures:

14920 movie.com
1305 madagascar the movie.com
878 spongebob movie.com
725 fantastic four movie.com
692 robot the movie.com
673 fresh movie.com pic xxx
667 sex movie.com
661 spongebob squarepants movie.com
580 tamil movie.com
540 yu gi oh the movie.com
397 star war movie.com
357 elektra movie.com
356 movie.com ringing
347 adult movie.com
338 house of wax movie.com
320 porn movie.com
238 free sex movie.com
228 honey movie.com
207 digimon the movie.com
196 free movie.com
189 sponge bob movie.com
188 movie.com picture
177 i like movie.com
172 thai movie.com
171 movie.com thedavincicode
160 indian movie.com
160 underworld movie.com
158 scream movie.com
146 spider man the movie.com
144 crash movie.com
140 phantom of the opera movie.com
138 constantine movie.com
137 the longest yard movie.com
136 free porn movie.com
136 titanic movie.com
134 inuyasha movie.com
133 scary movie.com
131 garfield the movie.com
130 avp movie.com
126 the lizzie mcguire movie.com
123 asian movie.com
115 scooby doo the movie.com
113 xxx movie.com
110 phantom movie.com
109 fat albert the movie.com
107 x man the movie.com
103 jaws movie.com
96 the ring movie.com
94 monster movie.com
94 superman movie.com
93 free porn black movie.com
91 yahoo movie.com
90 movie.com temptation
89 mia movie.com
89 unleashed the movie.com
86 spongbob movie.com
86 watch movie.com
85 white noise movie.com
82 amc movie.com
82 taxi driver movie.com
82 halloween the movie.com
81 saw movie.com
81 sexy movie.com
77 black the movie.com
77 hentai movie.com
77 madagascarthe movie.com
76 kingdom of heaven movie.com
76 pokemon movie.com
75 blue movie.com
74 korean movie.com
73 white chick movie.com
73 disney movie.com
72 legend movie.com
70 download movie.com
70 a series of unfortunate event movie.com
70 fox movie.com
70 make a movie.com
69 harry potter movie.com
67 ebony movie.com
67 india movie.com
67 racing stripes movie.com
66 xiaoxiao movie.com


-Allan

 

[WebbyMedia]

Thanks Allan. I forgot about overture while I was caught up in the number of unregistered "ThisSummersBlockBustermovie.com".

I've decided against this strategy simply because it has no long term value. After the movie dies down in theatres, any traffic that the domain would have been generating would be dead.

I only go to a movie's website once, maybe to check out a trailer or read more about it before seeing it. After that, no matter how good it is, I've never revisited the movie's site.

 

[monaco]

Good call