Battelle Gives Domainers a Shout Out

By Michele Neylon on January 13, 2008 in domainers, Domains, events

John Battelle is one of the keynote speakers at DomainFest this year.

In the most recent post to his blog he’s been asking a few interesting questions about the domain industry. They’re probably the most obvious questions someone could ask, but that doesn’t make it any easier to actually answer them accurately:

A few things I’d love to know with some authority:

- Overall size of the market

- What percentage of traffic is “type in”?
- How do majors figure in the business – do they endorse, ignore, partner (I know Google partners…)
- How much of the domaining business revenue is Google Adsense?

A lot of that information is closely guarded, a fact that people like Michael Gilmour are not slow top point out when questioning the transparency of the parking companies.