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Happy “Scott Day” Day
November 22nd, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
Happy “Scott Day” Day. I bet Scott’s traffic is up today. I know I visited just to check out who the owner of the Thanksgiving.com
domain was. The power of generic holidays is awesome. They always get a spike on their day and then they go dark for about 11 months. The traffic slowly builds up next year about one month before the holiday actually takes place. I visit these domains just to see who owns them, then I see it is someone like Scott and I put my checkbook away and go back to enjoying the Holiday. Have a happy Thanksgiving.com everyone.
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November 22nd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Why not link to the actual Thanksgiving.com
websites instead of WHOIS?
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 am
Many use Thanksgiving for promotion)
Look at http://www.triple.com/promo/thanks/
Sellimg domains at a sacrifice and spending money fo free just to thank everyone:)
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 am
Happy Scott day I am Scott!
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
hi greeting My Dear Sir Jay sorry late ThANKsgiving ,
something off topic : :::::
with so many turmoils around u[you] recently ,
especially ‘the issues of My Dear Sir Stephen ………
would they hamper your next DomainRoundTable’s auction
in any way ??
how about some early pre-auction’s events ??
e.g. : :
how about early previews of ‘the domains applications ??
in my own humble 4cents[opinions] ,
you may have been in a little bit 2[too] much haste in
your previews of the domains applications 4[for]
your previous auction ,
you may have overlooked some gems
just only my own subjective guess ,
sorry4anyInconveniency , bestrespects , ThANKsgiving , 2w
November 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
AhmedF Asks: Why not link to the actual Thanksgiving.com
websites instead of WHOIS?
Because part of Jay’s business is the domaintools whois service and his post was about finding out who owns Thanksgiving.com
and of course he used his own service to find out. Then passed the link he used on to us.
So now every search engine sees another link to his site and everyone following the link in the blog post winds up on DomainTools whois first and can follow either of the two site links there to the actual subject site.
That’s exactly what you should be doing (where appropriate) on your own sites, web boards, and blogs, too. I do that all the time on my sites.
I just did the same thing last night on one of my Web Boards when a visitor there asked for some info. I could have posted the info (a schematic) in my reply but instead pointed him to another of my sites where the info already resides.
Now everyone who reads the post and wants to see the schematic winds up on another site I own and all the search engines will see another link to one of my other sites. And the original poster got what he needed, a link that might give him even more info, and a gentle reminder that he should look at the links on the web board site because it was one hop from a link right there in the web board’s menu.
November 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I’m well aware of what he was doing. The point is he mentions Thanksgiving.com
, mentions it is owned by Scott Day, but then links to the WHOIS page (but never linking to the actual ’site’). That is poor taste (same thing generated a ton of complaints over at Techcrunch).
November 24th, 2007 at 3:56 am
I don’t know, AhmedF, I just don’t see “poor taste” there but I understand where you might think that. And I might have looked at it different if it was someone else writing but I expect Jay to do just that. It might be my expectations regarding Jay though. But when I think of other people who I also respect in this business I expect the same thing.
Over the years I’ve kinda adopted certain “rules of style” when writing on my own sites which maybe somewhat skewed or even flawed. Your post makes me wonder about my own ideas which is good. Thanks. (I’ll probably think about this one for days, Hee Hee.)