Finally Yahoo has been able to capture the domain flicker.com. Ever since the photo sharing social site, a industry hit flickr was launched, users were hitting millions of misspelled domain URL. Time, though lately, will benefit Yahoo – who later purchased flickr as a part of their service in 2005.
TechCrunch says Flickr is undoubtedly one of the most popular misspelled domains. Portion of TC read below:
As we noted a year ago, Flicker.com put itself on sale in a very visible way. Anyone who visited the page was greeted by a logo and statistics about how much traffic the site receives. So how much traffic was Flicker.com getting? 3.6 million unique visitors a year, according to them. Almost all of those hits were direct (95%) undoubtedly because people would misspell Flickr.com as Flicker.com.
Though flicker.com still points to its own site, Yahoo will be recovering the purchase cost of 6 million dollars or less in few days. If you are one among those misspelled domain owners and you get millions of hits like flicker.com, let us know. We will write about you.
