Human Behavior & Direct Navigation: Flamenco Your Way All The Way To The Bank at Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

Human Behavior & Direct Navigation: Flamenco Your Way All The Way To The Bank

Published on January 16, 2009 in Domain Names.

A while ago, for obvious reasons, we purchased the domain name Flamenco.com. You can imagine my surprise today, while browsing a local art magazine which advertises upcoming events, I saw the following:

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while visiting San Fransisco I met with a good friend of mine and while chatting about the greatest and latest, I asked his opinion about Facebook. I asked what his thoughts were about the site and if he thought they were going to figure our a business model. His response was asking me if I use the site or not. I said I do. He asked if I had to rate it by usage where would it be on my personal scale. I said from all applications/sites on my computer probably in the top 3. He then went on saying that with usage monetization will follow. They will find a way. As we now see with Youtube, this seems to be the case.

Same is true for direct navigation traffic. While we may be going through economic and social changes, human behavior is extremely hard to change. The continuous education by millions of sites over the years to type a keyword + .com cannot be forgotten quickly. The fact that our domain names get quality type-in traffic means someone, somewhere, will always be willing to pay. And while traffic values may go up and down with time, as with adult affiliate companies, it is the best monetization companies who will always continue to push the prices and value up. And as for 2009, while there’s extreme uncertainty on the horizons, one thing is for sure: Due to human behavior, Direct navigation is here to stay.

3 Responses to “Human Behavior & Direct Navigation: Flamenco Your Way All The Way To The Bank”

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1 Sonny
Jan 26th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

Hi Sahar,

I’ve been reading your blog and story, it is truly an awesome story on how you capitalized on opportunity. I am looking to unload a premium domain name called bargainprice.com. Can you please contact me? thanks

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Hi Sonny,

Thanks. As for buying domains, we’re not buying much these days. If there is something we want we tend to contact the owner directly.

Cheers

Sahar
2 Em @ KING.NET
Jan 27th, 2009 at 12:50 am

Hi Sahar,

Are you aware of The Rich Neighbor affiliate program that using your domain name in the heading that look’s like a SPAM?
Here’s a sample of email, I’ve posted in my blog.
http://my.king.net/2009/01/rich-neighbor-affiliate-program.html

I hope all well,
Em

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Can’t control what others do, not even trying.

Cheers

Sahar
3 Esteban
Feb 18th, 2009 at 1:14 am

“For obvious reasons”? It’s a wonderful generic domain, but is that the reason it is so obvious? Or are you of Spanish descent and you have a deep personal connection to it? Or are you just a fan of this Andalucian style of dance in general? Do you plan on doing something with this domain such as making an informative website about this popular form of dance from Southern Spain?