“PR on someone else’s mountain” or “5000 visitors a day for free” or “Memo for domain registrants”

    Everyone is up to date with the story that happened yesterday with the largest torrent-tracker of Runet, torrents.ru
    If not, read here and here .

    The story is unpleasant, but I would like to tell not about it, but about how website owners should take a more responsible attitude to the registration of domain names.

    So, as soon as it became known about the site moving 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, as it turned out that the word "treker" is looking for 44 thousand people a month. Only 2.6 times smaller than the correct tracker . Looking at this disgrace, I immediately wanted to check the domain rutreker.org for free and it turned out to be free. As a result, the domain was registered in order to evaluate the traffic coming to it. The site hanged counter liveintrenet, who at 13 o'clock showsmore than 1,400 visitors today. It is without a single visitor from Habr, pure type-in ​​traffic. Those. about 2500 people a day.

    I think the story is instructive, and by registering a domain name you will now not forget about possible spellings. I understand that the creators of torrents.ru were not up to it, but, fortunately, they are not suing you.

    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 is still not 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. There is no doubt that the domain would not have lived free for a long time.

    UPDATE 1. Here are the remaining options also registered. Fakes for collecting passwords began to appear. Be careful, or something.

    UPDATE 2. At the end of the day, attendance exceeded 7000 people, of which 5000 type-in, 2000 from Habr. C domain installed redirect to rutracker.org

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