Domaining.com outage leaves domain bloggers in a lurch
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Key source of traffic to many domain blogs has gone dark.
People take good things for granted until that good thing goes away.
Such is the case with Domaining.com, which has been down for over a day.
First, my condolences to Francois (who runs the site). Having a site outage sucks. No other word for it.
I get a relatively small percentage of my traffic from Domaining.com. But I still noticed a difference in traffic yesterday. I missed the traffic, and I missed Domaining.com.
I imagine the site problems are even harder on some bloggers who count on Domaining.com for the bulk of their traffic. In fact, I suspect the volume of blogging from some of these people has dropped significantly over the past 24 hours because of the site being down.
I just heard from Francois and he says he hopes to have the site back up “in the next hours”. Let’s hope so.
All popular blogs get around 20% of their traffic from Domaining.com so Francois is providing a service to the community.
Of course, there are alternative aggregators, such as Domainsville and Namebee.
Fragger much be shitting his pants, his only source of traffic is gone.
Never put all your eggs in one basket…
Never have just one basket.