A really long domain name but lots of traffic.
My wife sent me a link to a funny single use site today, nooooooooooooooo.com.
She included the accompanying note: “That’s clearly a domain name you link to. You’d never be able to type that in.”
Yep, I’d say that’s a domain name that fails the radio test, spelling test, and just about every other cardinal rule of domain name selection.
But the site gets tens of thousands of visits a month according to Compete.com. And I can guarantee you only a small handful of them come from someone who remembers there are 15 o’s in the domain name.
It helps that the web site has been tweeted 42,000 times and shared on Facebook 166,000 times.
If the site did get a lot of type-ins, it would be pretty easy to typosquat it. Someone already has…registering it with just 14 o’s and with 16 o’s.
Karan says
What would be the cost of this domain name ?
Elevator says
Just imagine; the work of development. That is why I believed any domain can be developed, provided one can work on it. Cheers.
scott says
Hey there!
It’s my site 🙂 I also have InstantNoButton.com that directs to it, for easy typing 🙂
Andrew Allemann says
@ scott – nice, that’s easy to remember. But now that I know it’s 15 0’s, that’s not too bad either 🙂
Richard Douglas says
Andrew,
Google ‘Unmarketing’ and you’ll figure it out. Scott’s quite a big deal in social media.
He’s a great guy too.
-Richard
Will says
These types of sites are popular internet memes. See losinghorns.com
Austin says
Branded vs Exact Keyword Match domains have been a debate in the domain broker space for years. With all the new algorithm changes (Panda & Penguin) branded domains like Nooooooooooooooo.com are looking more and more appealing.