Owner says it received over 700,000 uniques over past month.
TorrentFreak has an interesting story about the Philippine country code domain name KAT.ph, which is currently for sale.
The U.S. Government attempted to seize the domain name that was used by KickAssTorrents but was never able to get the registry to cooperate. The domain name later expired and was auctioned off via Dynadot’s expired domain service.
Marshall Domains LTD bought the domain in the auction for about $9,000. But despite receiving over 700,000 unique visitors over the past month, the owner says they couldn’t monetize it because it’s blocked in Google’s ad feed.
According to the story, the owner was apparently reluctant to use zero-click monetization services. So he put the domain on the market and is asking for offers of at least $7,000.
The live stats for the domain show lots of traffic, but I question how it will monetize given what the users are looking for.
Buyer made a big mistake not checking if the domain was faillisted before purchasing it … $9,000 wasted …
It not worth $900, not to mention $9,000 — wow, what a waste.
Sounds like the plight of new TLD traffic. Funny how people talk about how they have traffic but when you ask about the clicks they go silent.
I’m sure there’s a way to monetize 700,000 unique visitors per month and generate more than $7,000.
Sure, they’re looking for X; and the site cannot offer X. But people who are looking for X belong to a demographic group with other secondary characteristics. Maybe they’re also interested in Y. So a Y site could benefit.
No idea what Y is, but I’m sure there’s a Y.