Type-in traffic

Type-in traffic

Type-in traffic is a term describing visitors landing at a web site by entering a keyword or phrase (with no spaces or a hyphen in place of a space) in the web browser's address bar (and adding .com or in a mobile browser address bar and adding .mobi or any other gTLD (generic top-level domain) or ccTLD extension (country code top-level domain); rather than following a hyperlink from another web page, using a browser bookmark, or a search-box search. Type-in traffic is a form of direct navigation.

Example: If you are interested in widgets, then instead of performing a search-engine search for the term 'widgets' you might type 'widgets.com' or 'widgets.mobi in your mobile browser address bar to see if such a web site exists, and, if so, what content is there. From another perspective, if you are in the business of selling widgets, then owning the domain name 'widgets.com' or 'widgets.mobi and having an active website at that address would be a desirable thing, as you could take advantage of the type-in traffic this name receives. This simple example holds true for virtually all products and services.

History

Prior to 2002 most web browsers defaulted type-in search strings to the ".com" top-level domain; thus entering 'mysearchterm' in the web browser's address bar would typically lead the user to http://mysearchterm.com/. This behavior changed depending on the 'default search engine' setting in the web browser's properties. Thus entering 'mysearchterm' in the address bar could lead to an error page or to results from a search engine. Much of MSN's high ranking as a portal results from the error page traffic delivered via their dominant Internet Explorer browsers. A significant percentage of Google's traffic originates from redirects via the Firefox browser and from the Google toolbar [http://www.dailydomainer.com/200784-microsoft-quietly-making-untold-millions.html Microsoft Quietly Making Untold Millions ] ] , both of which take over type-in traffic search strings to the browser address bar.

In the last few years advertisers, publishers and ad networks such as MSN, AOL, Google and Yahoo have awoken to the power of displaying relevant advertising to highly targeted type-in traffic from domain names, browser address bar searches and error traffic.

* In November 2004 Marchex acquired the generic domain name portfolio of Name Development Ltd., a little known British Virgin Islands company, for 164 million dollars, predominantly for its 100,000+ domain name portfolio generating 17 million type-in traffic visitors each month.

* In 2005, Highland Capital and Summit Partners, two venture capital firms, acquired a controlling interest in BuyDomains, paying an undisclosed sum for its domain name portfolio.

* In August 2005, industry trade journals such as dnjournal, dnforum and domainstate reported that sale volumes and prices of existing generic domain-names were rising rapidly as a result of type-in traffic monetization opportunities. Small webmasters can buy a domain name with type-in traffic and utilize Google's AdSense product, or any of several traffic aggregators to display relevant advertising to the trickle of visitors coming to their domain names. Many small publishers are generating thousands of dollars each month in revenue with very little effort by building websites that serve relevant advertising to their type-in traffic visitors.

* In April 2006 DemandMedia.com purchased the domain name registrar eNom as a tool for acquiring type-in traffic and for a portfolio of thousands of type-in traffic domain names. In July 2006 Demand Media purchased Bulkregister.com, another top ten ICANN accredited registrar.

* In May 2006 iREIT acquired Netster.com, predominantly for the thousands of generic type-in domain name names contained within the broader Netster domain name portfolio. [http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060519/nyf026.html?.v=47]

* Google's entry into the small publisher monetization space came as a result of their purchase of Applied Semantics (oingo.com) in 2003. The drop registrar phenomenon is directly related to the value and desirability of type-in traffic domain names.

* Type-in traffic does not differentiate between trademark traffic and generic traffic as it relates to domain names. For example, the act of registering coca-cola.com for one's own commercial gain would be considered cybersquatting. However, the act of registering softdrinks.com or cola.com would likely be a defensible acquisition of a generic domain name for type-in traffic generation or resale business opportunities.

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