"PR on someone else's grief" or "5,000 visitors a day for free" or "Memo for registering a domain"
All aware of the story that happened yesterday with the largest torrent tracker Runet, torrents.ru
If not, read here and here .
The story is unpleasant, but I would like to tell you not about it, but about how site owners should take a more responsible attitude to the registration of domain names.
So, as soon as it became known about moving the site to rutracker.org, I decided to go to wordstat.yandex.ru and see how often people make mistakes in writing the word tracker. The surprise was great, because it turned out that the word “treker” was being searched for by 44 thousand people a month. Only 2.6 times smaller than the correct tracker . When looking at such a disgrace, I immediately wanted to check for free the domain rutreker.org and it turned out to be free. As a result, the domain was registered in order to estimate the traffic coming to it. On the site hung liveintrenet counter, which at 13 o'clock in the afternoon shows more than 1,400 visitors today. This is without a single visitor with Habr, clean type-in ​​traffic. Those. about 2500 people a day.
I think the story is instructive, and registering a domain name now you will not forget about the possible spelling options. I understand that the creators of torrents.ru was not up to this, but fortunately you are not being sued.
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PS I regret that I am promoting the fate of such a beloved resource, but I could not resist. If the domain was registered by someone else, it’s not yet a fact that there would be information on the case, a link to the new address of the resource and an article on Habré, and the counter would be open. In the same, that the domain would not have lived for a long time free, no doubt.
UPDATE 1. Other options are registered too. Began to appear fakie to collect passwords. Be careful or something.
UPDATE 2. At the end of the day, attendance exceeded 7,000 people, of which 5,000 are type-in, 2,000 from Habr. C domain is set to redirect to rutracker.org
If not, read here and here .
The story is unpleasant, but I would like to tell you not about it, but about how site owners should take a more responsible attitude to the registration of domain names.
So, as soon as it became known about moving the site to rutracker.org, I decided to go to wordstat.yandex.ru and see how often people make mistakes in writing the word tracker. The surprise was great, because it turned out that the word “treker” was being searched for by 44 thousand people a month. Only 2.6 times smaller than the correct tracker . When looking at such a disgrace, I immediately wanted to check for free the domain rutreker.org and it turned out to be free. As a result, the domain was registered in order to estimate the traffic coming to it. On the site hung liveintrenet counter, which at 13 o'clock in the afternoon shows more than 1,400 visitors today. This is without a single visitor with Habr, clean type-in ​​traffic. Those. about 2500 people a day.
I think the story is instructive, and registering a domain name now you will not forget about the possible spelling options. I understand that the creators of torrents.ru was not up to this, but fortunately you are not being sued.
')
PS I regret that I am promoting the fate of such a beloved resource, but I could not resist. If the domain was registered by someone else, it’s not yet a fact that there would be information on the case, a link to the new address of the resource and an article on Habré, and the counter would be open. In the same, that the domain would not have lived for a long time free, no doubt.
UPDATE 1. Other options are registered too. Began to appear fakie to collect passwords. Be careful or something.
UPDATE 2. At the end of the day, attendance exceeded 7,000 people, of which 5,000 are type-in, 2,000 from Habr. C domain is set to redirect to rutracker.org
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/84881/
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